It’s official, Mozilla’s Firefox “Download Day” was a success, on June 17th, over 8 million users downloaded the latest version of the open platform browser.  The download requests were so heavy that Mozilla servers crashed for several hours on the 17th, which makes the number of downloads in the 24 hour span even that much more impressive.

All of that being said, I do not believe that anyone at Mozilla cares about the Guinness world record compared to the fact that the Firefox browser is now used by 19% of web users.  This is a very significant increase from 14.5% marketshare percentage from last year.  Who did they take the users from?  Microsoft’s Internet Explorer’s ownership of the market decreased from 79% down to 73% from a year ago.

Being an avid Firefox user myself, I’m quite confident that these marketshare gains will continue for Mozilla since they offer a much more dynamic product offering to the public.  Once you go Firefox… You never go back.