Mozilla Firefox 3 downloads at 6 or 14 million

None of us can deny how popular the new Firefox 3 download has been, and if you head over to Mozilla they have a Firefox 3 downloads worldwide page. This map allows you to track how many downloads there are in total, as well as for each country. At the moment Firefox say that almost 6 million have downloaded the browser, but when you head over to Download.com their reports are a little conflicting. They are showing that in total there have been almost 14 million downloads and that does not include Mac downloads.

So which site is giving us the correct figures, many would say Download.com and that Firfox are behind. But I would have thought that Mozilla Firefox would have the correct figures, as they are trying for a world downloads record. We reported yesterday that Mozilla were going for a download for world record attempt with their Firefox 3 browser, however there is no such record with The Guinness World Records. Firefox would still like this record, as a result they have put in a petition to put most download software in 24 hours in to The Guinness World Records.

Firefox had asked people yesterday to try and help break the world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours, it is an easy thing that people had to do, and I am pleased to say I was one of them.

Firefox 3 has some great new features, these include, one-click bookmarking, smart location bar as well as lightning fast performance. Security has also been improved with phishing and malware protection. Other features include built-in spell checking, session restore and full zoom. All of these make Firefox 3 faster and more reliable.