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title: Firefox Web Browser Gets 30 Million New Users In Eight Weeks
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# [Firefox Web Browser Gets 30 Million New Users In Eight Weeks](https://www.ironpaper.com/current/2009/10/firefox-web-browser-gets-30-million-new-users-in-eight-weeks)

 Written by [Ironpaper](https://www.ironpaper.com/current/author/admin) | Oct 28, 2009 1:30:22 AM

Mozilla's web browser, Firefox, is gaining on Microsoft's long dominant Internet Explorer. The Firefox browser has a built into tool that checks for new versions every 24 hours and reports back to a central server with the news.

In the past eight weeks, Mozilla has witnessed an enormous increase in new users--30 million.

The announcement was first posted on Twitter and then confirmed by an article in ZDNet UK.

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