http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
COPIED FROM LINK ABOVE:
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web
Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

By the way, the official date for the launch of Firefox 3 will be posted here soon - so check back! Join our community and this effort by pledging today.

I pledge to get Firefox 3 during Download Day to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours.

People who've pledged................(lists numbers of pledges by country)

Hey, why not?

I'd download it anyway.

lol @:

Sounds like an interesting idea! Hopefully, many people will discover Firefox in the process!

Like John, I would download it anyway, but perhaps I should do it on 'The Download Day' to add to the record.

I guess you need to subscribe (at the site) in order to be informed of the planned date...

I think many Firefox users are just counting the days to the public release of 3.0.
We will all keep an eye out for the release date and swamp Mozilla's servers!
Cheers,
John

What is the record lol.
Anyways I joined and I'm screaming at my friends about it. Already thinking RC1 is full of win, I'm ecstatic!
-Looks for a party-

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq
Do we have to reach a specific number of downloads in order to set the record?

This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We'd really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let's shoot for 5 million--the sky is the limit!

Download Day is our attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
QUOTE LINK ABOVE: "The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008. Join our community and this effort by pledging today."

Total Pledges:
1,118,590

Ohh cool!! I think I'd like to pledge too.. although Im terrible at dates I'll proably forget about it if not reminded I guess I'll sign up for it.. was going to get it anyways ;)


Which reminds me... I really really hope they specified the exact date in every country as June 17th over here wouldn't be the same in Europe or Asia... so how are they going to deal with that??? Because then it would be on multiple days unless they start counting 24 hours from a certain time and then forth till 24 hours but it wouldnt be fair for the rest of the countries where people are still sleeping when record thingy began??

Im confuzzled!!! @.@

I'll set myself a reminder, but I can't begin to imagine how many servers/bandwidth would be required for the attempt.
Mariana_X I never thought of that.

Since the map of people signing up (and I think those who do will get a E-mail reminder) is world-wide, I am sure that the "day" is 24 hours.
Cheers,
John

Is there a specific link to download from? http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/ still says version 2 at this time.

For me its download day, and I cant download

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

This is where they "most prefer" we download from

I already pledged

Download Day starts on June 17th at 10 a.m. PDT. Check this out for local times: http://tinyurl.com/4e7fv5

I have to wait until tomorrow

Firefox 3 will be worth the download too - I did BETA test it in the very early stages as soon as it was actually ready for BETA testing but they probably added some more features by now

I got mine

Me too!

Billy3

Download complete!

Mine is downloaded but not installed....too many pages open to close it now.

Downloaded and installed!
Had to wait until just a short time ago before I could even get into the site to do it though. The only incompatible plug in was the Real-player download plug-in.
John

downloaded and ready to install

Grr wont let me download, so please all you other **** out there tryin to download it, get lost and let me dl it first...

edit, anyone got the direct link?

No there isn't a direct link - the closest I could get for you is this http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/down...&lang=en-US

I'm downloading now - I hope all my addons work

WOW today I can download !

Mhm - different time zones that's why

I hope the record is broken

Its ok, I left the page open when I went to bed, and it had loaded when I woke up

Due to the problems Firefox had yesterday, the start and finish time was changed according to the link below.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

INFO FROM LINK ABOVE:
Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That's 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.


http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/06/17/ki...ay-with-a-boom/
QUOTE from link above: Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual requests may not have gotten through - but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads. We are currently serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to achieve 5-7 million downloads our first day of general availability................

Last time I looked on their site, they had over 6.5mil downloads lol

I dont like the address bar and how when u type the things are in black and green..

But yea..

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
QUOTE FROM LINK ABOVE:
we got more than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. That’s more Firefox downloads than we’ve ever had in a single day -- an impressive feat indeed!

Please be patient while the good people of Guinness review our World Record attempt. This might take a few days so please check back here. And, a huge thanks for all of your support!

8,000,000 Downloads in 24 Hours???!

Very Impressive!

Just over 1,000,000 Downloads came from Germany alone!

Japan downloaded 650,000 times!

Both of them outperformed us in the UK with only 440,000 downloads.

Unsurprisingly, the US downloaded 3,500,000 times!

Other major performers (Current approx. figures):

Spain: 410,000
France: 400,000
Italy: 340,000
Canada: 320,000
Poland: 285,000
Iran: 270,000
China: 250,000
Brazil: 250,000

They beat the record...right?

Well, since to my understanding, noone has ever tried to set a record like this before, I think the record doesn't officially exist. However, I think they did set a record which will not be broken in a long time.

I think M$'s Automatic Updates service could beat this on any Patch Tuesday, but that's usually automated.

Billy3

No record ever existed before, so it's not like you can beat it

I wouldn't think 8+million people would even be aware of Patch Tuesdays and be rushing to download something from Microsoft as soon as it's out. I'm getting the impression off the Internet most people usually wait to see if the patches will cause any issues and if there was a fixed patch before downloading, but that's just me.

And strange, Billy. I'm using Mozilla 3.0, yet your signature (javascript?) says 2.0.0.14. If I look at the About Mozilla Firefox section in my browser, it says 3.0 in the logo and 2.0.0.14 under that. Hmmm.... useragents, then?

Skyfuser, did you delete the prior version of Ff before installing 3.0 or install it over 2.0.0.14?
John

In order to get the record the server logs will need to be checked. I wonder if they are allowed duplicate downloads.

Yes, I always even delete the user profiles to do a clean install.


Someone on OSNN suggested that the fanboys set their computers to download hundreds/thousands of times.

I guess they had plenty of data allowance

I think there would be some sort of system to avoid this though - Only counting once for each IP etc.

Mozilla did say that they record the IP.
But then again, the smart fanboys would've known how to change their IPs, either by a program or dynamic IPs....
Looks like downloads slowed down now, since it was 1500 around midnight yesterday. http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
Why can't the judges hurry up.... >_<

Firefox download record official
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7486668.stm
QUOTED FROM LINK ABOVE:
The final record breaking 8,002,530 downloads for web browser Firefox 3.0 took place in June.........

Gareth Deaves of Guinness World Records called it "an extremely impressive accomplishment"........

The company said while IE reached a record low last month, it predicted Firefox would break the 20% share bar sometime this month..............

Mr Kim said Mozilla would continue to support Firefox 2.0 until the middle of December.

After that users will be expected to switch over to Firefox 3.0, which since its launch over two weeks ago boasts 28 million downloads and counting. ..............

I was too late to help out but i have it now anyways