Firefox World Record Download

[g0tanks]

Originally Posted by Zenphic

Ahhh! "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
DL'ed from acedriver instead

Edit: Acedriver's link seems to be Firefox 3 release candidate though. That's what the startup page said, but not the About window



Edit 2: I think they just forgot to remove that startup page for the final version. Downloading another setup from another souce does the same thing. Hmmm.

Edit 3: Firefox's pretty cool so far. I had to download the QuickDrag extension though. Heheh Super Drag and Drop <3. Memory usage is a tad higher than I expected. With 11 tabs (all TechArp forum pages), it's using 66.868 K. Maxthon 1.6.3 uses 44.940 K. I might have to tweak it

Yeah, I noticed the memory usage is still quite high, it doesn't bother me though. 4GB of RAM FTW

[Mac Daddy]

Originally Posted by g0tanks

Yeah, I noticed the memory usage is still quite high, it doesn't bother me though. 4GB of RAM FTW

Indeed

Running fine here so far I haven't broken anything yet

[Chai]

I don't understand why they want to release Firefox 3 first, then only start the record the following day...

[PsYkHoTiK]

It's still the 17th here...

[Chai]

Originally Posted by PsYkHoTiK

It's still the 17th here...

I checked the page. They will only start the record on the 18th of July 5pm UTC, which means 19 July 2am.

LOL! I misread. Download BY!

[Falcone]

Firefox 3 to Launch Today - Computing News - Digital Trends

Firefox 3.0 is available for free; downloads via the Web (not FTP) will be counted toward the world record attempt. Firefox is currently the second most-popular browser on the planet, behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

[Dashken]

Already exceed the 1.6mil expectation!

But they'll still need to check their log to get the official numbers. I download thrice on 3 different systems.

Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

And get your certificate here...

Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

Firefox 3 exceeds 2.9 million downloads in first 8 hours

It appears that Mozilla has easily achieved its goal to set a new Guinness a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. Despite the fact that the download pages were virtually not reachable for several hours after the software was officially released at 2:16 PM EDT today (we actually found it posted on Mozilla’s FTP server at 1:31 PM EDT), lots of download requests apparently were successful.

Eight hours after the release of the software, the download counter stood at almost 2.92 million downloads. Mozilla’s own goal was to hit more than 1.6 million Firefox downloads within 24 hours to set a Guinness world record. Firefox 2 was downloaded about 1.6 million within one day after launch. Mozilla said that it will take about one week to review download logs and validate the record attempt.

So far, more than 1 million downloads came from the U.S., more than 100,000 from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain and the UK.

Source: TG Daily - Firefox 3 exceeds 2.9 million downloads in first 8 hours

[Chai]

LOL, US alone is enough to break the record.

[zy]

Originally Posted by Chai

I checked the page. They will only start the record on the 18th of July 5pm UTC, which means 19 July 2am.

LOL! I misread. Download BY!

June or July ?

[Chai]

Originally Posted by zy

June or July ?

Crap, I must be sleepy at that time!