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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."
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If you haven't been down-modded lately, you aren't trying.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
It appears that this is the first recorded record by Guinness Book, so it's kind of arbitrary, however shuttling 62TB of data is pretty impressive. Now that the gauntlet has been thrown down, it'll be interesting to see if other software companies will try to compete. If nothing else, this gave Firefox some much-needed press.
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
No, 7.7m is the current figure. The US downloaded 2.5m of the 8m on Download Day.
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Protip: Africa is not a country.
http://xkcd.com/198/
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Its amazing that over 300k people downloaded firefox from russia, despite the fact that in soviet russia, firefox downloads you. /groan
"Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day... Teach someone to program, frustrate them for a lifetime."
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
Those pinkos didn't put America on there either!
Minesweeper.
If people are still using Internet Explorer, it can only be explained as ignorance or complacency.
Or personal preference. I downloaded Firefox about a year ago, tried it alongside IE for several weeks, determined there were parts I liked, parts I didn't, and ultimately made the decision that I preferred IE. It's nice to have a choice, and I have made my pick. Others picked something else, whether it be Firefox, Opera, or something entirely different. Fine. Good for them. I don't care because I have my browsing experience the way I want it and that's all I really care about.
If Firefox works for you, hurrah. I'm not so smug and condescending that I'm going to start calling you names. Just let me have what I prefer and we're all happy. I don't care if you think I made a poor or even stupid decision, in much the same way as I don't care if a Honda driver thinks I shouldn't be driving a Toyota. Isn't that the whole point: for people to have choices and be able to choose what they prefer?
The SpearFirefox FAQ clearly states that the download count does not include duplicate downloads, incomplete downloads or downloads done through Firefox updates.