While I was psyched as is to be getting the latest and greatest version of Firefox on June 17, the act of downloading Firefox 3 became even more fun because doing so would help set a new world record — most software downloads in 24 hours. And, it seems that Mozilla and the Firefox community were actually able to pull it off, getting a Guinness World Record.
Firefox 3 was downloaded by 8,002,530 people from 18:16 UTC on June 17 to 18:16 on June 18. While I can’t seem to find the country-by-country stats for downloads on Download Day, I do have those for total downloads, from June 17 to right now. Of the 29,012,080 downloads of Firefox 3 overall, the most came, unsurprisingly, from the United States, with 7,892,755 downloads, or 27.2% of the downloads. That number also meant that about 2.5% of the entire population of the United States has downloaded Firefox 3. While that is a pretty amazing number, even more amazing is Lithuania, which, according to my, data, has a population of which 11.9% has downloaded Firefox 3. If you guys can find even more spectacular feets of international Firefox 3 downloading, feel free to share them in the comments.
Yet even with all of this Download Day excitement hype, when push comes to shove, the world record is only a nice bonus to have a for a browser that is one of the safest fastest, and overall best out there.
I suspect that if Apple were to provide statistics then every time there is a Software Update, they would easily exceed these download figures.
You mean a more spectacular feat?
Ya I downloaded it and then found it couldn't display the photos on my .mac website so I dumped it. I went back to 2.14 version as it's stable.
I put a notice on my sites photo page stating it doesn't work with FF3.