FireFox Breaks World Download Record
Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on July 3, 2008
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 
DJ @ Fermentarium | July 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am #
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.
Kevin Muldoon (Post Author) | July 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am #
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.
David Hobson | July 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 am #
I say well done not only for the record but for an excellent browser as well.
B. Durant | July 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 pm #
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.
Freelance Web Design | July 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm #
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.
salwa | July 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm #
Firefox is without a doubt the best browser around at the moment.
Why Firefox is a Web Designers Best Friend
Keith Bloemendaal | July 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pm #
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
Tom - StandOutBlogger.com | July 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm #
Wow, and now they are sitting on29 million downloads! Does Mozilla make a profit from this somehow? Cause those servers would be expensive
seo resources | July 4th, 2008 at 1:00 am #
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.
FRiK | July 4th, 2008 at 3:05 am #
Guinea-bissau has 19 downloads
Are there 19 computers in it?)