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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. Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record by rugatero · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also, 7.7 million of the total came from the US

    No, 7.7m is the current figure. The US downloaded 2.5m of the 8m on Download Day.

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  2. Re:lame by gparent · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was referring to Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, which is pushing as an automatic update now if I'm not mistaken.

  3. Re:Thanks for the arrogance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Allow me to give you something else to chew on: if you're still using Internet Explorer, you are willfully placing a lot of burden on web developers across the globe. That can be seen as ignorant, arrogant or complacent as well. Assuming you're techno-literate, we can scratch the ignorant excuse. Especially if you put statements like this in your response:

    I don't care because I have my browsing experience the way I want it and that's all I really care about.

    Other than that, freedom of choice is a wonderful thing...

  4. Re:Arbitrary but impressive by ozphx · · Score: 3, Informative

    Theres a few references to Adobe Flash being downloaded 10 million times on an average tuesday.

    Its a gold medal when you are the only one competing.

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  5. Re:lame by learningtree · · Score: 5, Informative

    The SpearFirefox FAQ clearly states that the download count does not include duplicate downloads, incomplete downloads or downloads done through Firefox updates.

  6. Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record by a.ameri · · Score: 3, Informative

    1 Lithuania 126.79
    2 Iceland 49.5
    3 Luxembourg 38.02
    4 Switzerland 37.52
    5 Norway 36.37
    6 Slovenia 35.57
    7 Finland 33.96
    8 Faeroe 33.84
    9 Estonia 33.67
    10 Liechtenstein 31.92
    11 Germany 30.77
    12 Singapore 29.43
    13 Netherlands 27.7
    14 Sweden 27.55
    15 Austria 27.19
    16 Denmark 26.11
    17 USA 25.99
    18 Hong Kong 25.04
    19 Canada 24.43
    20 Ireland 23.16
    21 Hungary 22.99
    22 Bulgaria 22.46
    23 Australia 22.19
    24 Poland 21.54
    25 Bermuda 20.71
    26 Belgium 20.53
    27 UK 20.32
    28 Latvia 19.66
    29 Israel 19.58
    30 New Zealand 19.19
    31 Spain 18.33
    32 Czech 18.11
    33 Malta 17.87
    34 Antigua & Barbuda 17.86
    35 Romania 15.78
    36 Andorra 15.69
    37 France 15.67
    38 Barbados 15.31
    39 Qatar 15.17
    40 Slovakia 15.05
    41 Aruba 14.58
    42 Greece 13.77
    43 Anguilla 13.54
    44 Maldives 13.35
    45 Croatia 13.31
    46 Italy 13.16
    47 Chile 12.8
    48 Portugal 12.68
    49 Cyprus 12.1
    50 Taiwan 11.3
    51 Japan 10.77
    52 UAE 10.52
    53

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