Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. The final record breaking 8,002,530 downloads for Firefox 3.0 took place in June with parties in over 25 countries. "The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen" said Marketing head Paul Kim. Gareth Deaves of Guinness World Records called it "an extremely impressive accomplishment".The official figure was confirmed after logs from download servers were audited and checked to ensure duplicate and unfinished downloads were not counted. Mr Kim told the BBC: "The notion of going for a world record, as gooky and nutty as it may have sounded, was a really sticky idea. "It was an idea that translated really well across national borders and to all different kinds of people around the world."
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Beeeen a long time fan of firefox
-Rich-
has worked well overall
However ... the whole record thing is just sad :\
Count the number of IE7 downloads upon release, you'll easily break this record.
(And don't whine on how MS uses Windows Update for this.. FF does has an autoupdater..)
Exactly.
And I think IE wouldn't have more downloads in 24 hours.
It doesn't have the FF hardcore fans who downloaded it ASAP.
People like to wait with Microsoft a day or two to see that everything is OK...
Some actually wait til the SP1 of a product...
Laughing out loud.
However ... the whole record thing is just sad :
Count the number of IE7 downloads upon release, you'll easily break this record.
(And don't whine on how MS uses Windows Update for this.. FF does has an autoupdater..)
From the IE7 Release blog : "IE7 Hits the Street" - http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/2...the-street.aspx
"In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release. "
Sorry, not so 'easily' it seems.
also the FF download record did not include the auto updates.
Last edited by yakumo on 03 Jul 2008 - 21:31
However ... the whole record thing is just sad :
Count the number of IE7 downloads upon release, you'll easily break this record.
(And don't whine on how MS uses Windows Update for this.. FF does has an autoupdater..)
From the IE7 Release blog : "IE7 Hits the Street" - http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/2...the-street.aspx
"In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release. "
Sorry, not so 'easily' it seems.
This guy just ownt you all +1
I knew it was bs that IE could get that many downloads in one day.
This is top downloads in 24 hours ever learn to read.
That's because Firefox 2.x and 1.x didn't auto-update to Firefox 3.x. during Download Day. Their server hamsters were working overtime as it was, and those little suckers can only run so fast.
There's quite a difference between a number of downloads and a user base.
Back to Opera for me for now.
Back to Opera for me for now.
I've downloaded it and installed it on five different computing environments (Win32, Linux x86, Linux AMD64, Mac OS X PPC, and Mac OS X x86). I've yet to see it crash once. It's been pretty damn stable all this time.
i never went back, in start every things is same. then they improve it
That has to be wrong.. I am people from more then 25 countries downloaded....
Considering how easily Microsoft could beat Mozilla in a "download race" this is far from impressive. But, what the heck, way to go Mozilla, a few people fell for your publicity stunt, YAY
Considering how easily Microsoft could beat Mozilla in a "download race" this is far from impressive. But, what the heck, way to go Mozilla, a few people fell for your publicity stunt, YAY
My sentiments exactly!!
+1
other thing MS does not ask people to download but they force the people to get it, buy it.
+1
other thing MS does not ask people to download but they force the people to get it, buy it.
i concur.
There was a personal certificate? Interesting.
In 24 hours.
Till today more than 28 million...
Even if only half are actually individual users (although some people download from proxies or copy from their friends, and let's not forget IT people downloading once and sharing...) it's still impressive...
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