Thanks to everyone. Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that they have officially achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.”
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New Guinness World Record – 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in a day!
From the mozilla site:
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.
Posted by: Vivek Gite
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