[citation][nom]hixbot[/nom]Are the auto-upgrades included? Most people with firefox are updated automatically.[/citation]
Yes they are, I would be interested to see how many millions of "downloads" the end users are totally unaware of.
If MS had enabled an automatic update of all IE6, 7 & 8 users to IE9 in the same way, 2 things would have happened.
Firstly, IE9 would have jumped up to something silly like 100 million downloads on day and probably crashed the servers in the process.
Secondly, all the rabid Firefox fanboys would cry foul that MS was abusing it's monopoly - even they they did the same thing themselves.
So stop patting yourselves on the back, Firefox may have a lot of downloads but it still won't have the crown for total number of users, so throwing a ticker-tape parade for coming second just looks sad & desperate.