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For a wiki about Firefox, see Firefox Wiki

Mozilla Firefox is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. With over 25 million downloads in the 99 days after its release, Firefox became one of the most used free and open source applications, especially among home users. On October 19, 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, just 344 days after the release of version 1.0 (read more at Wikipedia).

Wikia supported Firefox in 2005/6 with a "download Firefox" button in the footer of every wiki. Each download earned $1 for Wikia, which we though might supplement the revenue from the advertising and help to support the site, allowing us to continue to offer free MediaWiki hosting to over 5500 wikis, but in reality, very few valid downloads were made, so this was never a significant source of finance for the site, so the button was not replaced after it was dropped in a MediaWiki upgrade.

[edit] Further information

• "Google Announces Firefox AdSense Referral Program" by Asa Dotzler on the SpreadFirefox site.
• "Google Paying for Firefox Installs" on Slashdot
• Google AdSense support for Referrals

[edit] Relating information from Wikia

• Mozilla Community Wikia: Information on Firefox
• Unofficial Google Wikia: Information on the Google Toolbar
• Mozilla Resources Wikia on Scratchpad
• Biotechno Wikia: Reasons to use Mozilla Firefox (in French)
• Computing Knowledgebase Wikia: brief info on Mozilla Firefox
• "Google Gives Money Away": an unreport on the deal from Uncyclopedia
• "Support our hosts by downloading Google Toolbar with Firefox": a call for support from the founder of WikiFur