Firefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinness

Punkster812 writes "Mozilla has gotten the results back from the Guinness World Records and the official number that will be set as the record is 8,002,530 downloads. The day started out a little rough for them, with server troubles during the initial launch, but once they got everything going, they were able to transfer 62,419,734 MB in 24 hours. You can get more information, including a breakdown of how many downloads each country did from around the world, by visiting spreadfirefox.com. Congratulations, Mozilla, on the new record."

Comments

One of the lucky ones

[Ted Freeman]

I didn't need to download anything. IE7 comes with Vista.

New Firefox is Good and Bad

[Petersko]

Good - This is the very first version of Firefox that didn't crash on me in the first half hour (or at all yet, three hours and counting). The last one was the only piece of misbehaving software on my system, and after half a day and at least a dozen crashes I gave up on it. Bad - I had no choice. It insisted on being my default browser. That's one of the indicators of bad software. That's not "Quicktime" bad, mind you, but it's a terrible choice nonetheless. In the end it's still my number 3. I use Opera quite often - in fact I much prefer Opera to Firefox. My "most often used" browser is still IE7. Go ahead and flame me.

Re:Good work!

[bigstrat2003]

If people are still using Internet Explorer, it can only be explained as ignorance or complacency.

You say "complacency" like it's such a bad thing. IE has always done, and continues to do, what I want it to excellently. Firefox is not capable of doing it any better. Why, then, should I feel bothered to switch?

Re:Good work!

[MBC1977]

Well if you consider "complacent and ignorance" as one who (a) does not like the way FF / Opera / or Safari displays web pages; (2) does not care for some independent party designing some "standard" when it should be left to the creator of the product to dictate a standard; (3) have never had anywhere near the problems most people complain about (I won't even be rude enough to question the reproducibility and / or validity of these claims), then I guess that would be me.

Though I'm not gonna dismiss FF's record as it is significant and praise-worthy, but of no real interest in the grand scheme of my computer usage (since I'm a firm believer of bundling -- it adds value, and provides a total package). You are welcome to proselytize if you wish though.