Comments on: Did You Download Firefox 3? Show it Off!

By: Scott Wegner

Scott Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:43:49 +0000

@Brian: Did you mean, Fedex Office?

By: Scott Wegner

Scott Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:39:48 +0000

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.

By: Brian Wegner

Brian Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:56:03 +0000

Done, and Done….Thank you Kinkos ®

By: Kyle Wegner

Kyle Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:47:55 +0000

Only if you print out 7,999,999 certificates.

By: Brian Wegner

Brian Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:46:50 +0000

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?

By: Kyle Wegner

Kyle Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:06:36 +0000

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.

By: Scott Wegner

Scott Wegner — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:01:07 +0000

..8 million downloads that occurred, easily placing Firefox in the Guinness Book of World Records for the single day download record.

The funny part is, there was no previous record that really needed to be beat. Just about any number would be something to celebrate.