Firefox 3 sets Guinness World Record

Mozilla Firefox has received confirmation from Guinness World Records that they have now officially achieved the record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. On 18th June 2008 over 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3.

It all started on June 17th 2008, Firefox 3 Download Day. The idea was to attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. The popular browser received so many download attempts at the launch, that their servers crashed due to the vast number of visitors. But they were back up and running within no time, and at some periods were serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute. If they kept that rate going initial forecasts were that they would achieve between 5 – 7 million downloads.

With less than one hour to go they were showing 7.8 million downloads and all eyes were watching to see if they could break the 8 million mark. Once the count down reached zero the total was 8,002,530, over 8 million downloads.

The total on the Download Day website: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
now shows over 31 million!

During the Firefox 2 launch a large crop circle in Oregon USA was created by fans showing the Firefox logo: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1&z=16&ll=45.123785,-123.113962&spn=0.012112,0.024097&t=h

Well done Firefox!

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