Firefox Goes for World Download Record

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."

Comments

Re:I pledge not to download it

[Fallus Shempus]

Weird, I have the release candidate, you know you can still actually use as a location bar and ignore the search, it still drops down and give suggestions of previously typed in URLs

Don't see the problem

Re:followed by most rollbacks to version 2...

[thetoadwarrior]

I would say that's untrue at this point. del.icio.us released their updated version, Web Developer, noscript, adblock and firebug is on FF3. In fact, I'd say most popular plugins have made the move.

Re:I pledge not to download it

[netsharc]

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.

Re:Patch Tuesday

[pablomme]

Yup. They say they're going for 5M downloads. Firefox 2 got 1.6M on its first day. Says so here