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Help Firefox set a Guinness world record
The Firefox team would like to invite the world to join in their quest to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. How do they planning to do this? They want as many people as possible to pledge to download Firefox 3 within 24 hours of its release as part of Download Day 2008.While the release day is still unknown -- sometime in June is as much of a hint as we're getting -- pledging signs you up for updates about the imminent release of Firefox 3. You can also use your favorite social networking group (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Twitter) to follow the journey of Firefox to a world record.
When I wrote this post, 356,554 people had pledged to grab Firefox 3 on Download Day 2008. The US is leading with 58,862 pledges, with Brazil in second place with 23,030. Wherever you reside, be sure to participate in this fun event!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Joid said 5:30PM on 5-30-2008
To be correct: Poland is second with 26,101.
And if you'd count all the countries in the EU then you'll count over 100,000.
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DJCarbon43 said 7:27PM on 5-30-2008
I'm guessing that when this story was written, Poland had not yet passed Brazil, hence the author was correct. Second, the EU is NOT a country, it is a union of European countries, and hence, should not be treated as one.
Needless criticisms of authors grow tiring after a while.
Steven Sande said 7:30PM on 5-30-2008
DJCarbon43 is correct on all three counts. Thanks for your support!
TUAW Steve
Joid said 8:18PM on 5-30-2008
"I'm guessing that when this story was written, Poland had not yet passed Brazil, hence the author was correct."
No he wasn't, Poland has since a long time a remarkable high amount of Firefox users. http://diary.braniecki.net/2007/12/31/central-europe-marketshare-situation-short-analyze-part-1-poland/
Second the USA is also not a country, and should therefore not be treated as one.
Steven Sande said 8:24PM on 5-30-2008
"Second the USA is also not a country, and should therefore not be treated as one."
WTF? Hmmm...let's see. When we're in the Olympics, we're in as the United States of America, not as Colorado, California, New York, et al. When member states of the EU are in the Olympics, they are in as separate countries - Spain, France, Italy, etc...
The EU is NOT a country. Check EU in the Wikipedia to get an explanation of the difference. If you're from the EU, I'm surprised you don't understand the difference!
TUAW Steve
DJCarbon43 said 8:28PM on 5-30-2008
The total number of users in each country has nothing to do with the number that had signed up at the time of the article's writing. I'd strongly recommend taking a class on formal and informal logic to more thoroughly understand those differences.
Second, the United States is a country as per the definition of a country in the O.E.D. International organizations, such as the United Nations, recognize each of the European member Countries as separate and sovereign entities, while the United States is recognized as one. E pluribus Unnum.
Q.E.D. Bitch
Steven Sande said 8:33PM on 5-30-2008
DJCarbon43 - You are quickly jumping to the top of my favorite commenters list. It's nice to see someone who is actually making comments that are beyond the "Micro$osft is teh sux" level. Keep up the good work. Thankew verra much.
TUAW Steve
filpaul said 5:32PM on 5-30-2008
I'll do it, I was already in the New York Times ad for Firefox 1.0
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Simpleton said 5:36PM on 5-30-2008
Sounds like a great way to crash the Mozilla servers on launch day! Isn't this something we should be planning to do to Microsoft instead?
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Blaktornado said 6:34PM on 5-30-2008
Yeah... but no-one wants Internet Explorer after they've seen the light ;)
Zimmie said 5:39PM on 5-30-2008
One of the developers was a real dick to me on a few separate occasions, and frankly, Firefox up until now has been a demonstrably inferior browser on Mac OS. I've given them plenty of chances. I don't intend to give them any more.
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Edd said 5:46PM on 5-30-2008
After playing about with the beta of Firefox 3, I have to agree that it is disappointing and unfortunately still inferior to Safari. I will likely end up downloading it for development purposes, but it won't end up being used a lot by me and probably not part of this "download day".
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Tom said 5:50PM on 5-30-2008
Where's this twitter information?
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Steven Sande said 6:58PM on 5-30-2008
Go to the site and click the Get Involved link
TUAW Steve
flipmo said 5:55PM on 5-30-2008
I love Safari because of the way it handles RSS. That's why I keep coming back to Safari!!
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Peter said 12:44AM on 5-31-2008
What difference is there between FF3's and Safari's RSS handling?
flipmo said 12:59AM on 5-31-2008
The difference? Safari has these "live" numbers of updated articles right beside the RSS bookmark. This way I can quickly click on it and it takes me to this beautiful RSS page.
FF does not tell me how many new articles there are. Firefox has this ugly menu of all the articles which tells me nothing so I have to click on each individual article.
All the plugins for FF give me this ugly sidebar and it just doesn't do it for me.
I like my real bookmarks intertwined with RSS bookmarks and I like to keep it as simple as possible. I hate the idea of a separate RSS reader because I don't browse the web that way!
pauldacheez said 9:25AM on 5-31-2008
I just use NetNewsWire for RSS. Nothing beats having a gigantic list for those 40+ feeds, right?
Dave said 6:00PM on 5-30-2008
Who is the current world record holder? What number do they have to hit to achieve it? Or are they going to set the original record?
I'd also like the Twitter link, if available.
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Aleks Witko said 6:03PM on 5-30-2008
So long as there's a mac version that same day, count me in.
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