They call it in the Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads as “an extremely impressive accomplishment” and why not, for just 24 hour period the number of downloads exceeded the expectations of the people behind Firefox. Have you downloaded yet? Or better, was yours one of those total of 8,002,530 downloads for open source web browser Firefox 3.0 on it’s download day? The download rate on its busiest, the servers were handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute. So far there have been more than 28 million downloads of Firefox 3.0, and counting.