Within five hours the number of downloads for Version 3.0 exceeded the 1.6 million set by Firefox 2.0 in October 2006.

BBC: Firefox claims download success

Mr Schroepfer said that there were about 12 big improvements in Firefox 2.0 along with thousands of minor tweaks and bug fixes.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Firefox browser for web 2.0 age

The project to create Firefox 2.0 kicked off in June 2006, said Mr Schroepfer and the software was released once the work was finished.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Firefox browser for web 2.0 age

Firefox 2.0 also has an improved session restoration system that will let users resurrect tabbed webpages they accidentally closed or will re-start a net session at the point before a crash.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Firefox browser for web 2.0 age

Firefox had a 25.2% share in November, down from 32.2% two years earlier.

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Unfortunately, many sites display in full because they don't yet detect Firefox as a mobile app, but the installation of the Phony 3.2 add-in lets it impersonate other smartphone browsers, and it seemed to work well.

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Mozilla says its latest version of open-sourced Firefox was downloaded 7.1 million times, while Microsoft reported last week that IE 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times.

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