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Firefox Day : Download record attempt over 8 million downloads in 24 hours

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for the most downloads in a 24-hour period. More than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in a single day yesterday as the SpreadFirefox campaign attempted to set a The campaign, built around the launch of the Firefox 3 web browser, ended last night.

The campaign initially targeted 1.6 million downloads, the number of downloads of Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours after its launch. That target was bettered within five hours. At the close of the 24-hour period around 8.2 million copies of the browser had been downloaded, averaging around 6 000 downloads a minute for the 24 hours. More than 10 000 copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in Pakistan during this record attempt.

The Guinness World Record team will now have to verify the results of the download attempt.

The Mozilla team at Download Day HQ as the attempt period wrapped! (Photo courtesy of Clare Bayley)

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