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.
Firefox 3.0 is worth it’s weight in gold.
How much does a byte weigh in grams? :S
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080624190320AA9Gi2E
So it’s worthless?
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 HTTP, HTML/XML, Flash, etc., are nothing new and exciting, I hope those technologies will be superceded by something better.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.
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
Microsoft breaks that record daily with their windows update site.
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.
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.
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.
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!
You are an idiot if you think 8 million people downloaded FF.
It was probably more like 2 million downloading it 4 times each!
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 Recordsâ„¢, 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.
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”
yeah, how many times a day does the google logo image get downloaded? At least twenty times each day by myself alone…
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.
“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