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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jun 2008 13:51 UTC

Any minute now, the Mozilla Foundation will officially release the third incarnation of their successful Firefox web browser - the browser that cracked Internet Explorer's monopoly and forced Microsoft to improve IE. Mozilla aims to set a world record in most software downloaded in 24 hours with Firefox 3. Update: It's out there, boys and girls. Update II: And the Firefox 3 page is up too.

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RE: Question?

by ljgshkg on Tue 17th Jun 2008 14:53 UTC in reply to "Question?"

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2008-03-25

Probably can limit the count from the same IP?

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RE[2]: Question?

by ebasconp on Tue 17th Jun 2008 17:31 in reply to "RE: Question?"

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2006-05-09

No practical,

1. they should save the million IPs that downloaded the app.

2. If I'm behind a very large subnet, I should be unable to download firefox because someone inside my subnet already did it.

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RE[3]: Question?

by stestagg on Wed 18th Jun 2008 11:41 in reply to "RE[2]: Question?"

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2006-06-03

1. saving even 100 million IP addresses is easily practical. especially if the requests are spread over several mirrors.

2. If your network is using some form of NAT, then 2 people will still be able to download, but it may only count as 1 download towards the guinness record.

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