Mozilla Firefox has been the open source browser of choice among many people for a long time. I install it on every system I work on for a friend, and I have it installed on every computer I own. Granted I run Linux at home, and you can’t even get Internet Explorer for Linux, but that doesn’t even really matter. The point is that Firefox has been the only browser in history to have any shot at dethroning Internet Explorer in the browser market. I use it, I love it, and everybody I show it to loves it.
With that note, Firefox 3 was just released. Firefox boasted about it for weeks, and their entire mission was to try and set a new Guiness World Record for the number of downloads in a 24 hour period. Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,002,530 on the day of its release. Yes, that is over eight MILLION downloads in 24 hours. I did contribute, and so far I like Firefox 3. It looks cleaner, and seems to run better. It does take up more memory, but thats to be expected with the improvement of the looks, and the special features they added to it. It’s pretty sweet. Look, I even got my own Download Day flyer 
Mozilla enthusiasts worldwide drove more than 1.7 million pledges to download Firefox 3 on Download Day, hosted regional download “fests,” and informed more than 43 million people through hosting Download Day affiliate buttons online. The global Mozilla community has been celebrating the historic goal of establishing a Guinness World Record with parties in more than 25 countries, including a 24-hour long download fest celebration called Camp Firefox at Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters.
That’s pretty amazing. Over 8 million downloads in 24 hours. Those servers must have been going ape shit all day in order to push out downloads like that. Good stuff.
Mozilla Sets New Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 Downloads [mozilla]
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