• Mozilla sets World Record with Firefox 3 launch

    Mozilla sets World Record with Firefox 3 launch

    Techtree News Staff, Jul 03, 2008 0937 hrs IST

    With over eight million downloads in a 24-hour period, Firefox 3 sets a new World Record

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The launch of Firefox 3 saw a record-making number: 8,002,530 people downloaded the latest browser from Mozilla in the 24 hours between 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008.

The Mozilla team congratulated its community and pointed at its grassroots marketing campaign as the secret to the successful launch. As the browser launched, the first four hours saw a million downloads, which later snowballed to over 8 million over the next 20 hours.



"As the arbiter and recorder of the world's amazing facts, Guinness World Records is pleased to add Mozilla's achievement to our archives," Gareth Deaves, records manager for Guinness World Records, said in a statement. "Mobilizing over 8 million Internet users within 24 hours is an extremely impressive accomplishment and we would like to congratulate the Mozilla community for their hard work and dedication."

Here is an interesting snapshot from Mozilla on how things turned out come Download Day, July 17th:

  • We exceeded the first day download mark for Firefox 2 of 1.6 million after just five hours of availability for Firefox 3.

  • Net Applications is already reporting a 300% positive change in Firefox 3 market share worldwide just today.

  • Over 500 articles about the launch were linked to from Google News

  • The Firefox 3 launch made the front pages of BBC.co.uk, NYTimes.com, Liberation.fr, laRepubblica.it, Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch, and Yahoo! News

  • The completely redesigned Mozilla.com launched in over 25 language versions

  • New community activity on SpreadFirefox.com has skyrocketed with dozens of new groups and hundreds of new postings

  • Over 700 community launch parties have been registered on mozillaparty.com


    • Our congratulations to Team Mozilla! If you downloaded Firefox 3, you can grab a cool certificate from here.

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    Discussion Board
    (5) Comments
    Kit
    ,Mumbai, on Jul 03, 2008 07:46 PM
    great that is really a thumbs up to the best browser
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    nick
    ,london, on Jul 03, 2008 07:00 PM
    What was the previous record?
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    eljon
    ,tiran, on Jul 03, 2008 05:39 PM
    mozilla firefox 3.the best web browser in the world.
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    Vijendra
    ,Mumbai, on Jul 03, 2008 01:30 PM
    Good ,But i heard some loopholes in Mozilla,In that case Mozilla should upload some updates to cover that loopholes.
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    nilesh
    ,mumbai, on Jul 03, 2008 11:29 AM
    it's a real good news. People should stop using annoying Internet Explorer
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