It's almost here. Today (17 June) you will be able to download Firefox 3 (final version) for the first time. At the writing of this post, it's not yet available, but when you read this, you might already be able to download it. As mentioned in a previous post, Mozilla is trying to set a record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. At the moment, they already have almost 1.5 million pledges to download. They are aiming for 5 million downloads on the first day, but I don't know if they will achieve it. Nonetheless they will most probably exceed their previous record, set by Firefox 2, with just under 2 million downloads on the first day. So when you read this, head over to Firefox's page, and see if Firefox 3 is available for download. And if it is, support this world record attempt by downloading it. Please note that just updating Firefox from Firefox itself won't count towards the record, since it's not a full download.

UPDATE: Firefox 3 is to be released today at 17h00 GMT.

UPDATE 2: It seems Firefox is "available" for download now, but the link on Firefox's home page still points to the latest version of Firefox 2. Is Mozilla having problems coping with the huge loads of requests? Or maybe they didn't get FF 3 ready for launch, and are now masquerading FF 2 as FF 3?

UPDATE 3: Firefox was downloaded over 8 million times in the first 24 hours! That's amazing. I honestly doubted whether they would even get to 3 or 4 million.