In celebration of smashing through the 25 million download milestone, we are pleased to announce that the kind people over at CoinsForAnything have generously agreed to support our community by donating 100 commemorative coins. We will be awarding a quarter of these coins immediately to the top 25 most active SpreadFirefox members and distributing the remaining 75 shortly thereafter according to a different set of criteria.

Furthermore, the Mozilla Store is offering a 25% discount on certain items to everyone.

More information about each is available at SpreadFirefox. Thanks everyone…onward to 50 million!

Earlier, I promised to post more about how Firefox has smashed the 25 million download marker. Turns out Asa did the work for me.

Later today, we will announce how we intend to commemorate this momentous occasion in Mozilla’s (and open source’s) history, so keep an eye on SpreadFirefox. It’s not much—just a small token of our appreciation for those people who toiled behind the scenes to get us here and never got the thanks they deserve.

Remember when I said hmm yesterday? Here’s the announcement.

December 27, 2004: We’re not changing our strategy. —Jim Allchin

December 30, 2004: Firefox is my current choice of a Windows Web browser. It is to IE in 2004 what IE was to Netscape in 1996 — the upstart that does a better job. —Walt Mossberg

January 12, 2005: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has slipped 4.9 percentage points over the past six months, to 90.6%, the lowest in three years. —WebSideStory

January 21, 2005: The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. —Wired cover story

January 26, 2005: Firefox took another step forward in mainstream acceptance with the announcement that Speakeasy, a Seattle-based national broadband ISP, is offering a customized version of Firefox 1.0 to its customers. —eWeek

January 26, 2005: Google is gobbling up talent from the Mozilla Foundation, creators of the insurgent open-source Web browser Firefox; and the hires may feed into rumors that the search giant is quietly building an Internet Explorer-killer.

February 15, 2005: Microsoft heard you. —IE team

February 15, 2005: Firefox reaches 25 million downloads. —Firefox team

More later.