Firefox Owns the World

Mozilla is really trying hard to make a world record of "most downloads of a program on launch day" for Firefox 3. They set up a pledge system so that they can send emails to people to remind them to download when it launches. They already have 1,307,761 pledges as of Sunday, June 15 at 9:15 PM, so it is going fairly well. Probably a lot more people will download Firefox than will sign the pledge, or at least I am assuming, because Firefox 2 got about 1.6 million downloads on its first day, and the Fox has only gotten more popular since. One thing that really amazed me though was the map they provide on the pledge site. It seems that they have at least 20 or so pledges from just about every country. They have many pledges from places you've probably never heard of like Montserrat (near Puerto Rico), Mauritius (east of Madagascar), and Palau (Near Philippines). They really have great worldwide support. I am using Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 right now, and I must say I am impressed after using Internet Explorer 7 for so long.
Although I am not what I would call a major Mozilla fanboy or anything, it would be sort of disappointing to see their world record hopes fail. It comes out June 17th, so go try it out!