{"id":61589,"date":"2008-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2008\/06\/17\/kicking-off-firefox-3-download-day-with-a-boom\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:28:16","slug":"kicking-off-firefox-3-download-day-with-a-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/kicking-off-firefox-3-download-day-with-a-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking off Firefox 3 Download Day with a Boom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/node&#038;id=141775&#038;t=269\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/files\/images\/affiliates_banners\/sns_badge1_en.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Download Day\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an awesome morning and afternoon here at Mozilla headquarters. We launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\">Firefox 3<\/a> this morning and immediately felt the love from millions of people all over the world joining us to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/worldrecord\">set a Guinness World Record<\/a> for most software downloaded in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual requests may not have gotten through &#8211; but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads. We are currently serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to achieve 5-7 million downloads our first day of general availability.<\/p>\n<p>To put some more color behind what&#8217;s been happening on this historic day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/worldrecord\">We exceeded the first day download mark<\/a> for Firefox 2 of 1.6 million after just five hours of availability for Firefox 3.<\/li>\n<li>Net Applications is already reporting <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/report.aspx?qprid=31\">a 300% positive change<\/a> in Firefox 3 market share worldwide just today.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;q=firefox&#038;btnG=Search+News\">Over 500 articles<\/a> about the launch were linked to from Google News<\/li>\n<li>The Firefox 3 launch made the front pages of BBC.co.uk, NYTimes.com, Liberation.fr, laRepubblica.it, Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch, and Yahoo! News<\/li>\n<li>The completely redesigned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\">Mozilla.com<\/a> launched in over 25 language versions<\/li>\n<li>New community activity on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\">SpreadFirefox.com<\/a> has skyrocketed with dozens of new groups and hundreds of new postings<\/li>\n<li>Over 700 community launch parties have been registered on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillaparty.com\">mozillaparty.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/worldrecord\">Download Day<\/a> has already been an amazing demonstration of the power of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">the Mozilla community<\/a>. Thank you to each and every one of you who&#8217;s contributed to a terrific launch of Firefox 3.<\/p>\n<p>Onwards to a new World Record, together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an awesome morning and afternoon here at Mozilla headquarters. We launched Firefox 3 this morning and immediately felt the love from millions of people all over the world joining us to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours. Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kicking off Firefox 3 Download Day with a Boom!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/kicking-off-firefox-3-download-day-with-a-boom\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" 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