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Mozilla Confirms Firefox 3 Guinness World Record

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The Spread Firefox team confirmed that the browser has received the Guinness World Record for the largest number of downloads in a single day. This is truly awesome for a browser that was released only in 2004.

The record confirms that on the date June 18, 2008 there were 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3. There has been a total of more than 28 million since Firefox 3 was released.

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Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. On June 18, 2008 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.
Ever since Firefox was launched in 2004 we’ve relied on our community to help us spread the word, and thanks to projects including crop circles, newspaper ads, giant stickers, videos, blogs and more we now have 160 million+ users in more than 230 countries.

So it’s time to rejoice for the team at Mozilla, but since this was only the first attempt at creating such a record, we will hope to see it broken several times in the next few years.

If you have not yet download Firefox 3 you can get it today.

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  1. Magie on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm #

    8 millions in a day? Great record.Congratulation Firefox.

  2. Siddharth on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm #

    cool
    I did download firefox on the same day :D

  3. Sandip on July 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm #

    Ohh Great!!! Where is the party guys.. Their was one download vote from my side too :)

  4. Sangeeta Sinha on July 3rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm #

    Well, I am not a techie person….so all I can say is Firefox has done a great job. Ask me personally, I will say that no doubt MF is much much better in IE. Only thing is that sometimes MF goes little slow.

    • Keith Dsouza on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm #

      Sangeeta, this version of Firefox is definitely quite faster. Give it a try if you haven’t already downloaded it.

  5. Winning Startups on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm #

    Interesting. What’s a crop circle?
    Found you on blogging idol. good luck to you!!!

  6. Keith Dsouza on July 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm #

    Thanks everyone, even I was amongst the first to download the software and also face the server outages from Mozilla servers :)