The Guinness World Records has officially announced that Mozilla Firefox 3 has achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours” from 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008.

A total of 8,002,530 downloads were made by people for Firefox 3. Mozilla also claims to have close to 200 Million Firefox users in more than 230 countries worldwide. As of today, there are a total of over 580 million downloads of Firefox since it first released.