We recently reported on Mozilla's decision to launch Firefox 3 with an attempt to break the world record for program downloads - an attempt that should be guaranteed success since no previous record exists to beat. At the time, though, Mozilla wouldn't give us an exact date for the attempt, stating instead that "Mozilla is driven by quality, not deadlines".

Well, this vagueness is no more, thanks to a Firefox blog post. Anyone wishing to participate in the world record attempt, or indeed to simply download the latest version of Firefox, should put a note in their diary for Tuesday June 17th.