The Guinness Book of World Records has *always* held a sense of allure for me ever since childhood.

So it’s with great excitement that I actually get to take part in one and you can too!  The Firefox community is banding together around the launch of Firefox 3 to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours.  Launch day is some time in June so check out Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3.

As soon as Firefox 3 goes out the door the clock will start ticking for downloads.  There is no guarantee that we’ll make the book or their website, but we have a better shot at it if we organize some wacky Download Fests and document them.  Get creative and tag your photos and videos with “Firefox 3 World Record.”  We’ll be pulling an all-nighter here at Mozilla with food and fun!  Details to come…

Pulling this together has been a huge and worldwide effort — we’ve launched the site in 10 languages! I want to extend special thanks to:

Argentina:

  • Guillermo Movia

Brazil:

  • Marcio Galli
  • Bruno Magrani

China:

  • Jack Guo
  • Jia Mi
  • Bin Sun
  • Wendy Zhao

France:

  • Pascal Chevrel
  • Cedric Corazza
  • Alix Franquet
  • Anne-Julie Ligneau

Germany:

  • Carsten Book
  • Henrik Skupin
  • Abdulkadir Topal

India:

  • Anant Narayanan

Italy:

  • Elisabetta Manuele
  • Giuliano Masseroni

Japan:

  • Daisuke Akatsuka
  • Dynamis
  • Gen Kanai
  • Eri Inoue
  • Kaori Negoro
  • Piro
  • Kohei Yoshino

Mexico:

  • Xavier Baez
  • Alexandro Colorado

Poland:

  • Zbigniew Braniecki (Gandalf)
  • Stanislaw Malolepszy
  • Katarzyna Stawarz

Russia:

  • Vitaly Piryatinsky
  • Alexander L. Slovesnik

Spain:

  • Guillermo Lopez Leal
  • Ricardo Palomares Martinez
  • The NAVE project
  • Nukeador

Slovakia:

  • Bob Hrdinksy

Sweden:

  • David Tenser

United Kingdom:

  • Jane Finette

United States:

  • Harvey Anderson
  • Catherine Brady
  • Alex Buchanan
  • Ryan Doherty
  • Stephen Donner
  • Justin Fitzhugh
  • Paul Kim
  • Ken Kovash
  • Reed Loden
  • Nicole Loux
  • Mike Morgan
  • The Nobox team
  • Ulili Onovakpuri
  • Jeremy Orem
  • Jay Patel
  • Chris Pollet
  • Alex Polvi
  • Tim Riley
  • David Rolnitzky
  • Tara Shahian
  • Melissa Shapiro
  • Rebecca Silliman
  • John Slater