Mozilla Firefox, at 16:59 GMT, on the 29th April 2005, has reached 50 million downloads!

It would've reached 50 million a lot sooner, but the downloads just suddenly stopped at 49,999,999; a picture shows the download counter at this stage. It stayed like this for about half an hour, before Asa's frantic pleas managed to finally coax a Mozilla co-worker into re-downloading the browser.

Asa was said to be "heartbroken" as the downloads stopped, but was "overjoyed" when the last download rolled into place.

I've just realised that the Slashdot article I posted about this was actually accepted!