Jun 18
Did You Download Firefox 3? Show it Off!
Many of us at automaticable downloaded the all-new Firefox 3 we helped to announce yesterday. For those of you that haven’t, you can still install the fastest browser in the world by clicking here. Anyone who did download on June 17th, however, has something to be proud of. You were 1 of more than 8 million downloads that occurred, easily placing Firefox in the Guinness Book of World Records for the single day download record.
Anyone who participated (ok, and wannabe’s too) can get an official personalized Firefox 3 download day certificate! As you can see, I’ve already downloaded mine and am proudly displaying it here on automaticable. Get yours now!
June 19th, 2008 at 9:01 am
The funny part is, there was no previous record that really needed to be beat. Just about any number would be something to celebrate.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Shhhhhh, just because it is a brand new record for the books doesn’t mean it isn’t impressive! Not that I have anything to go by, but 8 million+ voluntary downloads sounds like a record that may stand for a long time.
I like that Mozilla decided not to push FF3 to auto-update through the browser, so all downloads made were willing and voluntary. This will set a precedent for all future attempts to break the record so they can’t “push” the download on people and count them for the record.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Since I can’t take credit for ALL 8 million downloads, I’ll just take credit for a little over 7 million…so let’s say 7,999,999? That’s not being too greedy is it?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Only if you print out 7,999,999 certificates.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Done, and Done….Thank you Kinkos ®
June 19th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I wonder if it was intentional that they didn’t push the update through automatically. Most programs that automatically check for updates (including Firefox) check once per day. The daily check could’ve happened on most people’s browsers a) before Firefox 3 actually hit (it was released 10 AM CST), or b) while the Mozilla servers were taking a hit. I know I tried to automatic update first, and got a timeout error message.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
@Brian: Did you mean, Fedex Office?