Yesterday, the Firefox browser turned one year old since the initial launch of the 1.0 version. Meanwhile, only from the Mozilla website people have downloaded the browser over 106.4 million times. However, it is pretty difficult to say for sure how many out there actually are Firefox users.

But no matter just how many use the open-source browser, one thing is for sure, this software has made a huge dent in Microsoft's ego and has pretty much left Internet Explorer in the dust several times. For months in a row, Firefox earned more and more market share, and Microsoft couldn't do a thing about it... yet. Firefox was a bulletproof strategy and that was obvious from the beginning, when over one million copies of the browser were downloaded on the first day it was released.

In a year's time, Firefox confirmed that an open-source browser is a trustworthy alternative and that promotion using mainly word of mouth strategy is very effective.

The latest version of Firefox 1.5 (available here) is now being tested and offers new and improved features like a self update system and better performance when hitting the Back and Forward buttons.