The first day of availability for Mozilla’s Firefox 3 saw more than 8 million downloads of the browser. Guinness is verifying the number. They were hoping for more than 1.6 million. Congratulations!

OTHER THINGS THAT ARE 8 MILLION:

The number of millionaires in the U.S.
The age in years of a bacterium found in ancient ice.
Number of people who watched So You Think You Can Dance last week.
The number of sharks that are accidentally killed each year off the coast of Africa.
The quantity of mobile homes in the U.S.