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Firefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the right-next-to-the-worlds-fattest-motercycle-twins dept.

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."

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  1. Obligatory UserFriendly comic by jeiler · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080623

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  2. Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record by gparent · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could pick the country you signed the pledge from. Many people picked Africa for shits and giggles.

  3. Just thing of all... by dwiget001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    the chairs that died to bring us this news....

  4. Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Protip: Africa is not a country.

  5. Speaking of obligatory webcomic references by john83 · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/198/

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  6. Obligitory terrible joke... by hbean · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its amazing that over 300k people downloaded firefox from russia, despite the fact that in soviet russia, firefox downloads you. /groan

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    1. Re:Obligitory terrible joke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You forgot to click on "Other Stats" on the downloads per country page:

      People downloaded by Firefox:

      United States..... 0
      Canada............ 0
      France............ 0
      Spain............. 0
      Soviet Russia..... 8,548,674

  7. Re:North Korea by Absolutexero · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's because people in North Korea are evil, the videos of them in black and white are not actually filmed in b/w, they're just so evil, they have no color.... at least that's what Lewis Black said anyway

  8. Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record by mark72005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those pinkos didn't put America on there either!

  9. Iran vs Saudi Arabia by diegocn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Amazingly Iran has far more download than Saudi. No wonder being an US ally sucks.

  10. Are they counting source-code downloads too? by mi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pre-built binaries are for wussies — real women and men build from source.

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    1. Re:Are they counting source-code downloads too? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, if by "real men" you mean pansies.
      Back in my day, you couldn't earn your coding street cred without coding directly onto an exposed hard drive using a magnetized needle and a steady hand. That is, of course, if you don't have any butterflies handy.

  11. Holy shit! by LordKaT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Russia's huge!

  12. french guiana in need of stone by jessica_alba · · Score: 3, Funny

    With their main industries being fishing, gold mining and timber they are unable to build a castle and advance to the internet age, hence their zero d/l stats.

  13. Re:It is not a sign of success, really. by f8l_0e · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not Microsoft they're worried about pissing off. Network Associates and Symantec pay OEMs good money to pre-install McAfee and NAV. If you promote a browser less likely to get a machine infected, and the 90 day trial AV doesn't intercept an infection, the AV makers have no reason to advertise their software on your machine.

  14. Re:North Korea by kalirion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Minesweeper.

  15. Impressive considering... by y00tz · · Score: 0, Funny

    The previous record holder was the Paris Hilton tape.

  16. That's a great title to this article... by Ringl · · Score: 1, Funny

    but I had the dev team pegged as Corona guys.