 On July 2 Mozilla announced they had won the record, with 8,002,530 unique downloads and parties in over 25 countries.As of July 7, 2008, more than 31 million people had downloaded Firefox 3.Gareth Deaves, Records Manager for Guinness World Records, complimented Mozilla, saying, "Mobilizing over 8 million internet users within 24 hours is an extremely impressive accomplishment and we would like to congratulate the Mozilla community for their hard work and dedication."