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title: "Firefox 3: Download Day Results"
url: https://thecancerus.com/firefox-3-download-day-results/
date: 2008-06-19
modified: 2008-06-19
author: "ican"
description: "Finally Firefox managed to get 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours. This is when they were hoping for just 5 million. Above picture was taken by John Resig. Let's see..."
categories:
  - "Firefox download day"
tags:
  - "firefox"
  - "firefox3"
  - "firefox3 download day"
word_count: 85
---

# Firefox 3: Download Day Results

Finally Firefox managed to get 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours.

This is when they were hoping for just 5 million.

![Firefox 3: Download Day Results](http://thecancerus.com/wp-content/2590008041_2a3a61983d.jpg)

Above picture was taken by [**John Resig**](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeresig/). Let's see if Firefox 3 can get into the Guinness books of world record.

By the way if you downloaded  Firefox on download day then [get your participation certificate](http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form) from Mozilla and show off.

check  [http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/](http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/) for final numbers.

**UPDATE:**Firefox set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours, with total 8,002,530 downloads.