Download Day, Take 2 (Updated with final stats)

Mark Edward Soper — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:43:55 -0500

Update: Th-th-that's All, Folks!

The Firefox 3 Download Day is now history, with a total of over 8 million downloads in 24 hours. To find out how your country did, see the region selection below the map on the Download Day main page, or hover your mouse over your country on the map. To find out whether Mozilla will receive the coveted Guinness World Record recognition, keep checking the Download Day page.

And speaking of Guinness, did you know there's now a Gamer's Edition?

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"If You Act Now" You Can Still Help Firefox 3 Set a New World's Record

Thanks to the redefinition of "Day" as "a 24-hour period" - and thanks also to the problems everyone in the world had in logging onto the Spread Firefox website yesterday, Download Day continues, with close to 7,000,000 downloads as of posting time.

Originally, Download Day was scheduled to start at 10:00AM PDT yesterday, and end 24 hours later. However, if you read yesterday's installment of "how to bring a website to its knees", you know that things didn't work out exactly as planned.

When The Bell Will Finally Toll

Now, you have until 11:16AM Pacific Time to download FF3 and help create the new Guinness World record. That's 12:16PM in Denver, 1:16PM in Chicago, 2:16PM in New York City, and so on, wrapping up at 3:16AM (where it's already tomorrow) in Tokyo.

Got It? Flaunt It!

Don't forget to create your official Download Day 2008 certificate by clicking the Flaunt It! link and entering your name. Here's mine:

What's All the Fuss About?

If you're still wondering why millions are so excited about Firefox, check out the feature list. And, remember, Firefox is 100% organic software!