Firefox 3 team had a target of 5 million downloads for their new version which would enable them to set a new world record for the most number of software downloaded in 24 hour period. They have surpassed this number by about 3 million downloads and hold the new Guinness world record. Some quick facts about the download day:

- The total number of downloads are around 8.3 million

- Around 2.6 million were from the US and 223, 000 from Canada

- There were around 9,000 downloads per minute at one point

- Around 500 articles linked from Google News

- NetApplications reports 300% positive change

As of now 9:00 AM EST (June 19th, 2008), the total number of downloads are at 11,239,286.