The Firefox project was rewarded on Wednesday when Guinness World Records accepted that the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox on 'Download Day' in June constituted a world record. Firefox is now officially in the record books for receiving the most downloads from a Web site with a 24-hour period.
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yes, it is just a browser but having more than one dominant browser will force web developers to code to the standards and web browser's companies to improve on their implementations of their browsers through peer pressure and reviews against other browsers ..
firefox popularity at some level have increased your browsing experience, in whatever browser you prefer to you
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remember windows is installed 90% of the desktops i would say yes, huge amount of people like pc tech,corporate business admins,etc, there are always people installing windows more then firefox.
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The big deal here is that more than 8 million people downloaded software from the same web site in 24 hours. This is a big achievement both in terms of marketing and the infrastructure put in place on that day to deliver gigabytes every seconds of the whole 24 hours.
I don't know many organizations that can gather together a community so well organized to achieve such an event.
Kudos to the mozilla team and to the community around it!
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from http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq:
"What is Mozilla doing to make sure the record attempt is valid?
Mozilla will only count downloads that are fully and completely transmitted, not partial or complete updates. We will also discard duplicate downloads with the help of a cookie system. We will be logging our downloads using Apache and these logs will be made available for audit to Guinness World Records™, as well as two judges - Corey Shields and Paul Vixie."
I guess gathering and convincing 2 million people to download it 4 times each, would be considered even a bigger achievement.
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Yes, but in such case you download files such as images unwillingly. In case of Firefox 3.0, over 8 million people decided to download it by themselves.
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"Every time I visit a website, I download files from it. Any site that gets more daily traffic than the firefox site should qualify for this silly "world record"
What's wrong with you people?
The record is about downloading software, not files. Firefox is an application. Those files are not. I don't know how to put it better than that. Should I draw the schema for you?
And someone mentioned the Windows updates. Those are UPDATES.
Firefox 3 is an entire application.
The record is about downloading an entire application, not an update to an application.
Edited 2008-07-05 12:36 UTC
