Firefox aiming for a Guinness World Record

It's not the heaviest weight dangled from a swallowed sword. Or the most Ferrero Rocher chocolates eaten in one minute. But on the tech scene, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in a single 24-hour period would still be a mean feat.

That's the goal for Mozilla on what has been dubbed Download Day, a grassroots initiative to get people to pledge to download Firefox 3, the latest release of the popular open-source Web browser. People are also being encouraged to host download fests, collect pledges from friends and place Download Day buttons on their websites.

Since 2004, the Firefox community has grown to more than 175 million users, the company says, and is available in more than 45 languages and in more than 230 countries.

To take part: Sign up to get Firefox 3 on Download Day. The actual day has not yet been scheduled, but the great download will take place sometime in June.

-- Jessica Guynn

 

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