From 2004, when Firefox 1.0 is released to 2008, when most awaited Firefox 3 is released, Mozilla and Firefox has traveled a long way. It's popularity among techies is tremendous. They have asked the community to download their most awaited release of Firefox version 3 and the response is amazing. Totally 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3! and now it's official.

It’s Official Now. Firefox3 set Guinness World Record for the “Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours” It’s around 8 million downloads on 18th June, 2008. On June 2, 2008, Firefox team recieved a confirmation letter from Guinnes World Record.

At this time Lifehacker has posted a history of Firefox browser in screen shots from 2004 till date.

Related Links:
Firefox 3 World Record Official Website
Don’t forget to get your very own personalized Download Day certificate.
Official Firefox Blog post about Guinness World Record