According to an article by Information Week, FireFox has been downloaded over 25 million times, and continues to take market share from Internet Explorer. A preview release of FireFox 1.1 is scheduled for April 1, 2005.
Separately, it has been reported in the press that Ask Jeeves (ASKJ) is talking with Mozilla developers about building its own branded browser on top of FireFox.
Note that Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft plans to release an update beta version of the Internet Explorer browser (7.0) in the summer of 2005, ahead of the release of the Longhorn operating system. The new browser is meant to address the security issues that are reportedly plaguing the current version of IE. Some are thinking that if successful, IE will regain a significant part of its lost market share. Wonder if the new IE will have tabs, the most exiting feature of FireFox, in my opinion.
