Mozilla Firefox, the most popular internet browser, has just gotten itself into the Guinness Book of World Records. What for? The first ever most downloads in a day award...Mozilla broke it with a "record" (this term is used loosely because its the first ever recorded) 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours (from 1pm June 17 to 1pm June 18, EDT). The company transferred 62,419,734 MB (over 62 terabytes) of data. Impressive.
Mozilla, for those of you who don't know, was started by Mitch Kapor (lotus anyone?) who's a super-cool tech entrepreneur/philanthropist. The Mozilla Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit, and operates Firefox through its for-profit subsidiary, Mozilla Corp. The company makes meager revenues for such a killer product, and donates all the profit to its foundation (the majority of its revenues come from the little Google search bar in the upper right-hand corner of the browser). Killer product, killer record. This should kick on the ole' competitive engine and up the ante for apps and browsers. Good things.
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