Firefox 3: Let’s Break The Guinness World Record For The Most Downloads In A Day
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:10
Today is the day that not only Firefox 3 is officially released but its also the day that everybody is trying to break Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded on a single day. So go on, download the new browser from here, and take part in something big.
The latest update said:
Mozilla.com web traffic is pushing well over 2 Gigabits a second of just pure HTTP traffic. That is in addition to the 13 Gigabits a second or so of download traffic. We are still at around 14,000 download/minute and mozilla.com is responding well! Go Mozilla community and IT team!
Update: Firefox claims that 8 million copies downloaded in the first 24 hours and so far 14 million people have downloaded the new version. The official response from the Guinness people is not out but you can monitor the stats here.
Update 2: Guinness officials accepted Mozilla?s final count of 8,002,530 downloads (first 24 hours)
Regular updates of the downloading progress you can reed here.
Scam says:
June 19th, 2008 at 1:08 am
I’ve already installed the new Firefox and am impressed so far. What are your thoughts on it?
Weberence says:
June 20th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Firefox 3 definitely looks better although it did freeze a few times. Nevertheless I am 100% behind the Firefox project. Its less of a headache than i.e.
Scam says:
June 21st, 2008 at 11:46 pm
IE sucks, and Firefox 3 is definitely quicker.