# FireFox supposed 'world record'
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023
**Category:** random
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023 "2008-07-03T01:22:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/1 "2008-07-03T01:22:48Z")
Had this in my inbox, probably like many of you guys
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We did it!
We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.
You are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of
8 Million downloads in 24 hours is a world record? Having problem swallowing that since updates constitutes as software as well… and windows update / mac osx updater should be able to best 8 million downloads in 24 hours without breaking a sweat?
:stare:
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### Author:  [@BS1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BS1)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/2 "2008-07-03T02:45:02Z")
Well they really didnt break a record either they were the first to set it. I also think you have to manually download it (windows and mac osx usually update automatically.)
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### Author:  [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/3 "2008-07-03T04:05:12Z")
Don’t worry Adobe will take the record, they break that number every day with Flash downloads.
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### Author:  [@SlowChemical](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowChemical)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/4 "2008-07-05T11:17:57Z")
as you said thats a huge figure… is there a way of checking the authenticity of the statement?
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### Author:  [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/5 "2008-07-05T15:28:25Z")
^It was a 1 download per ip type thing is the way they did it. Thats the best way to really check it.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/6 "2008-07-05T16:07:09Z")
What constitutes having the user download the software? To download Firefox, you have to click a link to download it. To download an OS X update, you have to click _Install Updates_ or whatever. It seems like this will very quickly be beaten by anybody who cares. 😛
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### Author:  [@ramie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ramie)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/7 "2008-07-05T16:48:25Z")
^ I suppose technically speaking an update is a patch to complement existing software while a download, in this instance Firefox, is _the_ software in it’s entirety.
_Edit: not that i really care either way 😃_
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/8 "2008-07-05T19:02:25Z")
Well, you’re correct from a technical point-of-view (which is what really matters), but Firefox 3 is really just an update to Firefox 2, from a non-technical point-of-view. 😛
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/9 "2008-07-05T19:19:33Z")
Not really, FireFox 3 is a stand-alone application and doesn’t complement anything. 😛
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/10 "2008-07-05T19:25:14Z")
I don’t really want to defend a position I created only to be facetious, but doesn’t it just have to build on an older version to be an upgrade? 😛
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/11 "2008-07-05T19:44:48Z")
I think you’re right, semantically speaking. I believe the word ‘upgrade’ just simply means something that’s enhancing something older.
and I know what you mean, I don’t really care either 😛
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### Author:  [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-supposed-world-record/265023/12 "2008-07-15T00:05:44Z")
Nice tag.
Whatever figure they achieved, it was awesome interesting as a marketing campaign.
And it’s a nice browser, too.