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

MS beats this every patch Tuesday

[Anonymous Coward]

But I congratulate the corrupt organisation which uses a profit-making subsidiary for revenue but a non-profit to shelter from tax and give the appearance of a charity.

Re:MS beats this every patch Tuesday

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, praise be, "bro". Compared to all those home users who were forced to buy a Windows PC with IE+Flash, and all those firms who were forced to choose Windows with IE+Flash, and all those employees who were forced to work at a firm that uses Windows+IE+Flash... oh wait, you see, I use and recommend IE(+Flash) on Windows by choice.

And I choose to enable automatic updates on certain machines - as I find a well-updated Microsoft-based software ecosystem more valuable than, erm, Firefox.

But please, continue alleging like some mad evangelical that the only reason that anyone could possibly not use Firefox is that they haven't "heard da word of righteousness, brotha!" I and the rest of corporate America who are profiting just fine from Microsoft's offerings will continue without you.

Phoning home

[Quattro Vezina]

So, does Firefox still phone home by default?

Of course, if Firefox weren't FOSS, it'd rightfully be denounced as spyware, but no, it gets a free pass.