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Confirmed: Mozilla Sets World Record with Firefox 3 Downloads

July 2nd, 2008
6 Comments Written by Ryan


firefox guinness world record.pngAbout two weeks ago Mozilla made an attempt at a Guinness World Record shooting for the most number of downloads for an application in a 24-hour period. They managed to do it with Firefox 3, and the official number was 8,002,530 downloads! That’s about three million more than what Mozilla was hoping for, and six million more than Firefox 2 was downloaded in the first 24-hours. I think it goes without saying that they were successful.

The Spread Firefox site currently says that there have been more than 28 million downloads of the open source browser, and there are 160 million active users:

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.

I’ve had at least a dozen people ask me how many downloads Mozilla needed to set the record, and the short answer is that there was no record like this that had ever existed. So they would have probably made it regardless of whether it was 1 million or 8 million. What matters now is whether they will make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Either way Mozilla got what they wanted out of the record attempt, and that was to spread the word about the browser. Here we sit 28 million downloads later, and I don’t think there is much doubt that they succeeded in getting the word out about the new release.

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  1. July 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 pm Mohan Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    :mrgreen: I can happily said out of that 8 mil, 2 mil were from me…JK! I did contribute though.
    :mrgreen:

  2. July 3rd, 2008 at 8:31 am Andrew Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I wonder how many uninstalled v3 like myself after downloading it on their launch day…?

  3. July 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 am Vin Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Microsoft’s response:
    Firefox sets World Record, Microsoft implodes
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=f6e3EJqySpc

  4. July 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm Tinhed (All-Star) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Andrew wrote:
    I wonder how many uninstalled v3 like myself after downloading it on their launch day…?

    Atleast you can unistall it. I hope i can get rid of IE forever.

  5. July 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Vin wrote:
    Microsoft’s response:
    Firefox sets World Record, Microsoft implodes
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=f6e3EJqySpc

    That’s a pretty good video. :D

  6. July 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am Jon Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I think I read somewhere that they were required to hit 2 million before the record would be considered.

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