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Help Mozilla Set a Firefox 3 Download Record
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 12:05 AM on May 30, 2008
Firefox 3's creators are looking to set a Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours, and have set up a "Download Day 2008" page to organize the effort. The download date for the browser is still "some time in June," but you can watch the Download Day page for updates. [via]
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Dylan
Posted May 30, 2008 8:40 AM
Joseph: you can right click on a mac now? Crazy.
Anyway, wouldn't this record by default probably go to any high priority M$ patch that gets pushed out? It would be hard to beat that, or does that not count as a download because it's an update or something?
Angus Kidman
Posted May 30, 2008 9:08 AM
Patches from Microsoft tend to get rolled out over a number of days. Since people can set times for downloads in the middle of the night, or not have the option switched in, it would be rare for huge numbers of people to access a patch in 24 hours. Some take even longer (Vista SP1, for instance, was very much staggered in terms of being pushed to Windows Update). Plus, as you say, it's not exactly a conscious, deliberate download.
Matt Emery
Posted May 30, 2008 11:35 PM
@Joseph
Just right-click, then hit the escape button.
googeling
Posted 1:06 AM 30/5/08
pledged, can their servers handle the massive traffic?
googeling
battra92
Posted 12:54 AM 30/5/08
well, RPC1 in Ubuntu is running a lot better than Beta 5. Now if only Flash would be fully working I'd be happy.
battra92
Joseph
Posted 12:43 AM 30/5/08
Now if they could just fix the "right click" Google maps issue in OS X, we would have something.
Joseph
wjh31
Posted 12:38 AM 30/5/08
the best thing about this is the map showing where all the pledges are coming from, most interestingly i cant find a single country without a handfull of pledges, firefox is truely global
wjh31
gottwhat
Posted 12:33 AM 30/5/08
I "pledged"...
gottwhat
kylenalepa
Posted 12:32 AM 30/5/08
@kylenalepa: And based on the link, they are. Sorry, it wasn't clear from the post.
kylenalepa
kylenalepa
Posted 12:31 AM 30/5/08
I would hope that they would wait until Firefox 3 goes gold for them to organize a download day.
kylenalepa
caedus
Posted 1:20 AM 30/5/08
@kylenalepa: I would too...unless you want to set a record for downloading a browser that is still buggy.
caedus
FLskydiver
Posted 1:11 AM 30/5/08
...Or, you can right-click, and THEN press "ALT". FWIW.
FLskydiver
FLskydiver
Posted 1:09 AM 30/5/08
@Joseph: That's an issue in other OS's, too (if you are referring to the browser context menu obscuring the google maps page's context menu). As a workaround, you can either hold down "ALT" when right clicking, or right-click & release, then right-click and hold (while selecting). That's what works for me, anyway.
FLskydiver
SowndOfDeth
Posted 2:02 AM 30/5/08
What's the number to beat?
SowndOfDeth
Anteus
Posted 2:01 AM 30/5/08
Thoose bugs should be solved until it's release, you got to have in mind that it's a release candidate.
Anteus
AnimalChin
Posted 2:24 AM 30/5/08
Setting a record for downloading a crappy browser? No thanks.
Now if Opera were to do it...
;)
AnimalChin
OX4
Posted 2:58 AM 30/5/08
Props to the 5 people in the Congo who pledged!
OX4
tombuch
Posted 2:54 AM 30/5/08
That's such a cool map with a terrific "identify the country" interactive feature. Interestingly, as of this moment, there are 329 pledges from Iran, and only 19 from Iraq. Humm.
tombuch
iceman7
Posted 2:49 AM 30/5/08
There will be at least one more Release Candidate before the final release.. I'm using RC1 and its great. I'm not too worried about the bugs.
Anyway....
Pledged.
Can't wait for D Day.
iceman7
ChambrasWeed
Posted 4:07 AM 30/5/08
we are just 44 people in bolivia :(
ChambrasWeed
brackenthebox
Posted 5:06 AM 30/5/08
@SowndOfDeth: from the FAQ:
Q: Do we have to reach a specific number of downloads in order to set the record?
A: This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We'd really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let's shoot for 5 million--the sky is the limit!
So, it kind of looks like the number to beat is zero.
brackenthebox
pschroeter
Posted 6:22 AM 30/5/08
Funny, just the other day I decided to wait at least a month to upgrade and see how many of my essential extensions get upgraded.
No Thanks
pschroeter
AcidReign
Posted 10:13 AM 30/5/08
Yeah, this is really all organized. Ummm, what date IS download day? Can we not put it in the post, or at least in the linked article? How can I pledge to download FF3 on the correct date, when I don't know what the correct date IS?
AcidReign
Jshaw
Posted 11:19 AM 30/5/08
what was the previous record?
Jshaw
georgexu316
Posted 1:39 AM 30/5/08
i just hope they solve all those bugs in Firefox 3. They probably won't set a record though. Theres only like 100k ppl there that pledged.
georgexu316
mDuo13
Posted 4:52 AM 31/5/08
@brackenthebox: Well, more realistically, the number to beat is Firefox 2's 1.6 million.
Pledged. I'm looking forward to the Awesome Bar, the memory improvements, and the new Gecko. All kinds of improvements that I thought should've been in 2.
mDuo13
buscemi
Posted 12:56 AM 30/5/08
why? Is this going to help bring Firefox back to roots of NOT being a big memory-hungry bloated POS? Doubt it.
Doing this is like paying for advertising a company on T-shirts you wear which I'd guess tons of folks here happily do.
buscemi
edythemighty
Posted 9:40 PM 31/5/08
@AcidReign: Once you pledge, you'll be notified of it :P
edythemighty