RSSIt's official: Mozilla's Firefox sets Guinness World Record
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published July 3, 2008, 2:15 PM
From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, Mozilla indeed reached its goal of setting the record for "the single most downloaded piece of software in a single day."
"Mozilla set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours for the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox 3!" a Mozilla spokesperson told BetaNews yesterday.
As previously reported in BetaNews, Mozilla needed to keep careful watch over its servers in handling millions of requests for Firefox 3.0, the latest iteration of its browser.
Given the final build's file size, just the completed downloads (never mind the incomplete ones) constitute about 54.56 TB of data during that period. The actual data transfer has been estimated at something closer to 59.53 TB.
Meanwhile, Mozilla has also posted a breakout of total Firefox 3.0 downloads by countries throughout the world at http://www.spreadfirefox.com. Congrats to Mozilla from the BetaNews team!
What cheap BS hype.
Guess none of these bozos ever heard of patch Tuesday which in any given month utterly dwarfs the pittance of Firefox downloads being trumpeted by the kiddies.
Hilarious.
And the best part?
The browser *isn't* worth it.
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What a joke
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They definitely spend more time creating Worldrecord-sites than fixing bugs, that's for sure !
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Or perhaps spend some time working on their 3 year outdated support pages...
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I like Firefox and all, but this record setting thing is obviously nothing but a publicity stunt, which I think is pretty lame. If Microsoft tried something similar, they would be crucified for it, but because it's Mozilla doing it, everyone's impressed. If I remember correctly, when Firefox 2 came out, they pulled another "stunt" with buying a full page ad in the New York Times. I wonder what they will think of for Firefox 4.
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Congrats to Mozilla I also helped acheive that record, but still think Opera is way better.
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Yep, Opera is great!
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Yeah ! A new world record in bugs !
It's can't even store your login details, it stores your ****1ng email-adress instead of your username LOL !
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:Proof no software can fix stupid, folks. :)
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yea who held the previous record? Probably a windows bug fix :)
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Who did they beat out of 1st place?
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themselves... with the last version of firefox..
just a guess..
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Nobody, there was no previous record for this with Guinness. They wanted to set a record for others to try to beat down the road.
Kind of funny if you think about it. "I just came in first in a one-man race!"
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There was no first place, no record, in fact.
Hence:
Mozilla's Firefox sets Guinness World Record
Instead of:
Mozilla's Firefox breaks Guinness World Record
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Woohoo...that is absolutely wonderful! ^__^ Congratulations to Mozilla!!
@BklynKid --> Actually I care...
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I wonder if larger vendors are going to have Guinness on site from now on...
So silly. Kinda makes me embarrassed to use firefox and see headlines like this.
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At least we have our priorities straight...
rolls eyes
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Nobody cares...
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