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FireFox Breaks World Download Record

Posted by on 3rd Jul 2008 Internet News 11 comments

It looks like FireFox’s campaign to get the most software downloads in 24 hours has worked. They now have an announcement on their website saying :

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. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.

I can only imagine their servers were under to cope with 8 million downloads in one day. Check out their world map which shows you which countries were downloading FireFox on that day. You might be surprised by the download figures for some countries :)

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11 comments - Leave a reply
  • Posted by DJ @ Fermentarium on 3rd Jul 2008

    Well not exactly… they hold the record because they created the record and they were the first to do it. They didn't break the record, they created it and are the current holders.
  • Posted by Kevin Muldoon on 3rd Jul 2008

    Oh you're just being petty haha ;) Regardless, it's still an impressive record and shows how much a marketing campaign like this can really promote your business.
  • Posted by David Hobson on 3rd Jul 2008

    I say well done not only for the record but for an excellent browser as well.
  • Posted by B. Durant on 3rd Jul 2008

    I'd love to celebrate this success but a lot of my clients are NOT happy with how unstable FF3 is turning out to be. Me either for that matter.
  • Posted by Freelance Web Design on 3rd Jul 2008

    Woot! FF3 for the win. I'm pretty happy with it. I've heard complaints and such, but so far it's been smooth sailing for me. Apart from one of my Linux machines refusing to play flash in FF3. I'll have to look into that.
  • Posted by salwa on 3rd Jul 2008

    Firefox is without a doubt the best browser around at the moment.

    Why Firefox is a Web Designers Best Friend
  • Posted by Keith Bloemendaal on 3rd Jul 2008

    And to think, I was but one of those! Glad to see they did it, I love my firefox, discovered it about a year ago and was having so many issues with IE I didn't even want to get on my pc anymore, now I can hardly get off of it!

    Congrad's to Mozilla!

    Keith
  • Posted by Tom - StandOutBlogge on 3rd Jul 2008

    Wow, and now they are sitting on29 million downloads! Does Mozilla make a profit from this somehow? Cause those servers would be expensive :mrgreen:

  • Posted by seo resources on 3rd Jul 2008

    Firefox is one of the best web browsers in the world. So I think firefox is proper to get this record. There are some reasons why most of people like to use firefox, for example : secure, free, etc.
  • Posted by FRiK on 3rd Jul 2008

    Guinea-bissau has 19 downloads :) Are there 19 computers in it?)