Firefox 3 claims download record

by Julian Prokaza
on Fri 20 Jun 2008 Comment

Firefox 3 download mapIt was aiming for five million but it looks like Firefox makers, Mozilla, smashed that on its Firefox 3 Download Day. While it awaits confirmation from Guinness, Mozilla is claiming it's set a new world record of 8.3 million downloads in just 24 hours.

And though the first 24 hours may be over, the downloads continue. The current total now stands at a whopping 13.7 million, with the UK contributing a healthy 0.5 million all by itself. That puts it ahead of France and Spain on 4.7 million apiece, but trailing Germany who not only made short work of Portugal (61,000) last night but have also downloaded Firefox a table-topping 1.1 million times.

Current world champions, though, are the US with 4 million downloads. Honourable mentions must also go to the 11 downloaders in Chad and the 29 in Turkmenistan. Bravo.

[ Download Day official site]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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