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More than 8 million copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in a single day yesterday as the SpreadFirefox campaign attempted to set a world record for the most downloads in a 24-hour period. The campaign, built around the launch of the Firefox 3 web browser, ended at 8:15pm last night South African time.
The campaign initially targeted 1.6 million downloads, the number of downloads of Firefox 2 in the first 24 hours after its launch. That target was bettered within five hours. At the close of the 24-hour period around 8.2 million copies of the browser had been downloaded, averaging around 6 000 downloads a minute for the 24 hours.
More than 19 000 copies of Firefox 3 were downloaded in South Africa during this record attempt.
The Guinness World Record team will now have to verify the results of the download attempt.
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