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title: "Firefox 3 Download Day: 6.5 million and counting!"
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<p><a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node&id=7295&t=264"><img border="0" alt="Download Day" title="Download Day" src="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/files/images/affiliates_banners/dday_badge_fox.png"/></a>My favorite web browser slash social movement, <a href="http://getfirefox.com">Firefox</a>, released version 3.0 yesterday. To generate some buzz around the new release, the folks at Mozilla are trying to set a <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/">Guinness World Record</a> for software downloads in 24 hours. They're initial target was 5 million downloads. As of this writing, they're at 6.5 million downloads and counting - with 6 hours to go!</p>
<p>I also spent a few hours last night at the <a href="http://mozillaparty.com/en-US/events/view/182">Mozilla Toronto launch party</a>. Mozilla is full of great people doing great work... it was nice to help celebrate their latest milestone.</p>
<p>If you haven't yet, go now. <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Get Firefox 3</a>.</p>