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Firefox Goes for World Download Record

Posted by samzenpus on from the record-for-the-lamest-marketing-campaign dept.

Kelson writes "For the upcoming release of Firefox, Mozilla is preparing Download Day 2008: a campaign to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Participants are asked to pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day that it's launched. The exact date hasn't been scheduled yet, but everything seems on track for June."

19 of 344 comments (clear)

  1. Perhaps not the cleverest plan... by Apatharch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are they trying to kill their own servers or what?

    1. Re:Perhaps not the cleverest plan... by darkpixel2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      and testing their server capacity.

      while /bin/true; do wget -c http://download.mozilla.com/whatever/firefox-3.0.0-is-awesome.tar.gz; done

      Well--I'm ready to help them meet their goal. ;)

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    2. Re:Perhaps not the cleverest plan... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You are forgetting the & at the end of that wget command

    3. Re:Perhaps not the cleverest plan... by CarpetShark · · Score: 2, Funny

      The corporate email server went down after receiving over 800 emails in less than one second.


      Yeah, and that was just the normal Microsoft Exchange startup sequence.
    4. Re:Perhaps not the cleverest plan... by darkpixel2k · · Score: 2, Funny

      wget -c will exit immediately as the file is fully downloaded ;)

      Damnit--you're right. I'll bet Hello World had a bug the first time they tried to run it.

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      There's no place like ::1 (I've completed my transition to IPv6)
  2. Re:Patch Tuesday by Crock23A · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet WOW patches are high ranking.

  3. So guys... by thedrx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get your botnets ready :)

  4. Yeah! by SpanishInquisition0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go for the record Mozilla! If you get it, you might even get a place right next to the Most Marshmallows Stuffed Into A Person's Mouth record!

  5. Re:Patch Tuesday by EvilRyry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, but people _need_ to download the WoW patches as soon as they come out to continue to feed their addictive whereas Windows users are usually (or should be) scared to download the newest service pack when it first comes out.

  6. Don't fall for the communist tricks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Completely opposite to the ideals of capitalism, those swines are trying to topple the world order with their no-cost merchandise.

    However, few can say that Firefox is a software which you shouldn't own a copy of. Let's show them that enterpreunist powers rule with a firm iron hand and instead of criminally downloading a free version, buy a CD version of firefox on that particular day.

  7. 100% turn out from north Korea by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look, all 18 computer uses have pledged.

    1. Re:100% turn out from north Korea by SpanishInquisition0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Personally, I was more shocked when I saw that Africa actually had computers at all.

  8. Re:Why would I have to "pledge" anything? by Saint+Gerbil · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a vague recollection of getting hammered at the Asshat bar one night. Woke up with a sore arse.

  9. Make a big circle with a big marker. by BForrester · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm marking "Download Day" on my calendar right now.

    I have a big circle around 2008, and a thin one around 2009 too, just in case the news gets any more vague.

  10. Re:I pledge not to download it by tobiasly · · Score: 2, Funny

    And something Opera invented first! (Among other things like tabbed browsing, mouse gestures in a browser, a zoom feature that also resizes images, etc, etc.). And Opera 9.50 even searches the contents of pages you have visited for more WIN.

    Hehe, Opera fans are the Browser War equivalent of "Frist P0st!". Not really adding anything, just making sure everyone knows: We had that feature first! No, look at us! Over here!

    If Opera has so many great features so far ahead of everyone else, why is its usage still somewhere around 1% on a good day? If Opera can figure that out, maybe they'd get somewhere.

  11. would it be possible by Bizzeh · · Score: 1, Funny

    would it be possible to counter-act the download count by trying to upload the installer back to the server?

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  12. Lesotho's only got 2! by soxos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on Lesotho, wake up.

    Also, I'm sure it's been said, but I hope they torrent this thing, else we'll have the record for most smoked servers since CNN got simultaneously Farked, Slashdotted, and Dugg for the last Britney Spears media stunt.

  13. Re:Patch Tuesday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Zero words:

  14. How 12 words equal 0 words by macdaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I Auto Installed SP3 and now my computer is a useless brick!