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Firefox 3 Download Day is June 17th
As we noted a few weeks ago, the Mozilla team has set up a pledge program to remind Firefox users to download the Firefox 3 browser within 24 hours of its release in order to nab a Guinness World Record.
Well, the day is getting close - Firefox Download Day 2008 is scheduled for June 17th around the world. As of 11 AM MDT on June 14th, 2008, 1,221,679 people had pledged to get their copy of the new Firefox release on Download Day. It's not too late to take the pledge and help Mozilla spread browser goodness throughout the planet.
Well, the day is getting close - Firefox Download Day 2008 is scheduled for June 17th around the world. As of 11 AM MDT on June 14th, 2008, 1,221,679 people had pledged to get their copy of the new Firefox release on Download Day. It's not too late to take the pledge and help Mozilla spread browser goodness throughout the planet.
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Tony said 5:33PM on 6-14-2008
This isn't going to get any kind of record. Not even close... I bet the average Windows update goes through 10 times that in a day. Adobe flash gets 6 million a day.
What it will get is lots of publicity, which is good I guess.. but forget about the record.
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Asa Dotzler said 5:51PM on 6-14-2008
Tony, this isn't about "updates" -- if it was, Firefox has 180 million users and we could serve out an update to as many of them as we had capacity to do.
This is about user-initiated sofware downloads from the Web and Firefox _will_ set the record. If someone wants to challenge that record, they're free to get auditors in place on the day of their choosing and challenge it but they'll have to be serving out full software downloads from the Web and not some automated system like Windows and Flash updates.
Ethan said 6:54PM on 6-14-2008
And I bet CoolWebSearch gets ten times that... as Aza Dotzler says, this is a measure of choice, people pointing and clicking.
Tony said 6:37AM on 6-15-2008
Firefox 3 is an update to firefox 2. It's no different to a new version of flash or XP SP3 or anything else.
Personally I'm waiting a few days for the major issues to come out (like the iWeb incompatibility mentioned below).
IanC said 5:49PM on 6-14-2008
I'll download it (if i can even be bothered) sometime in July.....
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Kenny said 6:01PM on 6-14-2008
One of the sad aspects of a monster download of Firefox 3 is that any site built using the latest iWeb software will no longer show properly on lots of browsers. These sites show fine in Firefox 2, but something still needs tweaked with the forthcoming browser for these Mac built sites to view properly.
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blatz said 12:04AM on 6-15-2008
Either that, or iWeb could simply just generate good code that conforms to established Web standards.
It's not the browser's fault that iWeb sites dont render properly. It's iWeb's fault.
krizoitz said 11:45PM on 6-15-2008
@Blatz
Or maybe, since those sites work fine in the much better webstandards supporting Safari, they ARE coded to standards and its Firefox's fault?
PCromll said 1:04AM on 6-15-2008
I just hope Mozilla's servers don't crash.
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Seanross said 2:39AM on 6-15-2008
I already pledged and 2 of fav. plugins already work with Beta 5 (Piclens and Download helper) so I'm happy :)
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corben dallas said 3:18AM on 6-15-2008
who needs this buggy slow browser anyway?
please don't support shabby products
cd
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Theo said 12:43PM on 6-17-2008
What do you mean by Download day. It is now 18:30 in RSA (12:30 US ET) and still no FF3. If you can't meet yor own deadline why even try for a "record"?
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pattulus said 1:30PM on 6-21-2008
… can’t get a connection. this is really bad, i thought at least they wouldn’t have the famous server issue, when trying such a record. I tried for 5 minutes to refresh my browser. it’s no use, and so they can’t count on my vote.
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