Mozilla Download Day 2008 Update/Firefox 3

On June 17, 2008, Firefox 3 was officially released to the public on Download Day 2008. Mozilla's goal was to set the world record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. They wanted to reach five million downloads, but they greatly surpassed it with more than eight million downloads.

Although Download Day 2008 is over, Mozilla is still keeping count of how many people download Firefox 3. At the time I am writing this, there are more than fifteen million downloads. When you consider the fact that about half of all these downloads were on the first day Firefox 3 was released, you realize that Mozilla did pretty well with Download Day 2008. There were also more Firefox downloads in those 24 hours than Mozilla has ever had in a single day.

The Guinness Book of World Records is currently processing Mozilla's attempt, and the final results will be posted sometime in the future on the Download Day 2008 website.

There are not too many noticeable changes between Firefox 2 and 3, but the navigation bar has changed a bit and the bookmarking system has been completely redone. Searches for bookmarks can be made using the address bar, and specific bookmarks can be assigned tags to simplify searches.

I am proud of Mozilla for their attempt at setting a world record, even if it is just a publicity stunt. This event has also shown just how many people in the world use Firefox. It makes one wonder if there would be as much unity between users of Internet Explorer, Safari, and the other web browsers.

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