OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19970/Firefox_3_Earns_Guinness_World_Record Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 04:56:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Grats to firefox! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321359 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321359 Firefox 3.0 is worth it's weight in gold. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kishe) Comments RE: Grats to firefox! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321361 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321361 How much does a byte weigh in grams? :S Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments So what http://www.osnews.com/thread?321370 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321370 At the end of a day, Firefox is just a web browser, no more, no less. HTTP, HTML/XML, Flash, etc., are nothing new and exciting, I hope those technologies will be superceded by something better. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who's not rushing to install Firefox 3. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rom508) Comments RE: So what http://www.osnews.com/thread?321380 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321380 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 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mtzmtulivu) Comments MS http://www.osnews.com/thread?321381 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321381 Microsoft breaks that record daily with their windows update site. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (happycamper) Comments With all due respect... http://www.osnews.com/thread?321383 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321383 Big deal! So what if Firefox 3 earned a place in the record books for being downloaded a lot. Does it perform up to expectations? That's the bigger question. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments RE: MS http://www.osnews.com/thread?321387 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321387 Do they? Do that many people actually go to the Windows update web site daily? Remember that the record is most downloads from a *website*, so automatic updates and Vista users (who now have a non-web-based Windows update) don't count. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mallard) Comments The big deal http://www.osnews.com/thread?321388 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321388 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! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (agrouf) Comments RE: The big deal http://www.osnews.com/thread?321402 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321402 You are an idiot if you think 8 million people downloaded FF.
It was probably more like 2 million downloading it 4 times each! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rxcall) Comments RE[2]: MS http://www.osnews.com/thread?321403 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321403
Do they? Do that many people actually go to the Windows update web site daily? Remember that the record is most downloads from a *website*, so automatic updates and Vista users (who now have a non-web-based Windows update) don't count.


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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (happycamper) Comments RE[2]: Grats to firefox! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321405 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321405 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080624190320AA9Gi2E Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (noamsml) Comments RE[2]: The big deal http://www.osnews.com/thread?321409 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321409 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (barakedry) Comments Comment by kittynipples http://www.osnews.com/thread?321415 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321415 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" Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kittynipples) Comments RE: With all due respect... http://www.osnews.com/thread?321416 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321416 It doesn't, on my 64 bit vista machine it randomly crashes for no apparent reason, more so on gmail. No fixes in sight, and there seem to be more cases with different causes of crashes. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shadoweva09) Comments RE: Comment by kittynipples http://www.osnews.com/thread?321425 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321425 yeah, how many times a day does the google logo image get downloaded? At least twenty times each day by myself alone... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (saucerful) Comments RE: Comment by kittynipples http://www.osnews.com/thread?321429 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321429
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"


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. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Marcin) Comments RE[2]: Comment by kittynipples http://www.osnews.com/thread?321455 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321455 "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 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (satan666) Comments RE: Grats to firefox! http://www.osnews.com/thread?321729 http://www.osnews.com/thread?321729 So it's worthless? Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sappyvcv) Comments