Official Download Day 2008

Download Day 2008 has been launched by Mozilla Firefox to beat the Guinness Book of Records for most downloads in one day. Their goal is to reach 5 million downloads. As of 4:08pm CST the total number of downloads is 2,623,432. There is even a map of total region downloads and a rollover feature for each country's total downloads. Sleek.

There are over 15,000 new features in Firefox 3, including:

• One-click bookmarking
• "Awesome Bar" which recommends sites that you have visited before
• Better security
• Easy to use password management
• Simplified add-on installation
• Improved performance of speed and memory usage

Mozilla's open source project started back in 1998. Today it's known as Mozilla Corporation. The Company has over 800 code contributors, supports 35 languages, and has 3 affiliates in China, Europe and Japan.

Update: As of June 29, 2008, 13 days after Mozilla launched Firefox 3, the total number of downloads has reached 25,462,056. That's equivalent to 1.9 million downloads per day, 81.6 thousand per hour, 1.3 thousand per minute, and 22 downloads per second.