Linked by David Adams on Fri 4th Jul 2008 15:48 UTC, submitted by Merciades
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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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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2006-11-17
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!