According to Ars Technica, the Guiness Book of World Records has recognized the record set by Mozilla for most software downloads in one day!
With over 8,002,530 unique downloads in the first 24 hours Firefox 3 is now officially the record holder and the best browser! Congratulations to the Mozilla & Firefox team!

Firefox 3 being officially released, the buzz around the latest version of everyone’s favorite browser is at its highpoint.
The Mozilla team really did some great work and I think Firefox 3 has the best marketing campaign ever for an Open Source product. The features overview on the Mozilla website is done very professionally and the [...]

Ouch…. Only 5 hours after the official release:
What we can confirm is that about five hours after the official release of Firefox 3.0 on June 17th, our Zero Day Initiative program received a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as prior versions of Firefox 2.0.x. We verified the vulnerability in our lab, acquired it [...]

Firefox usage is rising all over the world. But probably the biggest rise is seen in Europe where Firefox has over 28% of the market, that is the conclusion of internet monitor XiTi.
The countries ranking the top of the list are Finland with 45.4 percent, followed by Slovenia with 44.6 percent and Poland with 42.4 [...]