Mozilla fundation is trying to set a new world record:
[COLOR=Green]**“The program most downloaded ever” [/COLOR][COLOR=Green](in one day)
**[/COLOR] [COLOR=Green][COLOR=Black]That program is —> [SIZE=3]**Firefox 3 **SIZE=2
More info HERE
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Not sure if I would flag that funny :bored:
Although I am a firefox fan and do plan to get V3.
And it’s not the alpha, it’s the full release. Why funny though?
Dammit I was hoping for a laugh 
Anyway, I’ll be downloading it hope it delivers
yea they are referring to the full release,
does this record already exist?
I was wondering this as well, wonder what it is :lol:
Its cool everyone will download it… but if you used RC1 its gonna be a bad day for all when the program crashes two seconds into use it. I hope they know what they are doing.
I assume the “funny” part is that they think it’s even close to being ready for release.
They’ve got a pretty high mark to hit, some perspective vs. the Adobe Flash Player:
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1444
[quote=fasterthanlight™;2337991]yea they are referring to the full release,
does this record already exist?[/quote]nope it doesn’t exist yet.
Ok, so it doesn’t matter how many people do it, they’ll still get the record
yeah, but even for new world records guinness sets up stipulations you must follow in order to actually make it count. So they probably have a certain benchmark they have to cross.
I guess, but what stipulations could be applied to this?
User must not be an alien
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Hah, Adobe wins. 8 million Flash Player installs every average day, way more on release days, Firefox has a lot to catch up to.
Ha. If the Adobe story is true (which seems pretty incredible), Firefox doesn’t have a chance. 
I don’t believe 8 million a day for even a second.
The only funny thing about this is the pipedream that it would even come close to being the most popular download. What about all the instant messengers, including the granddaddy of them all - ICQ? And P2P software such as Kazaa or Napster which were downloaded at a staggering rate?
Even those would pale into insignificance when you consider that Microsoft’s cumulative security patches are downloaded automatically by hundreds of millions of PCs every month. In fact, it’s probably a safe bet that the top downloaded program of all time was likely to be Windows XP service pack 2.
Let’s try to put some figures on this. Latest trend figures show that 15% of PCs run Windows Vista, with a further 4% running Windows 98 or Windows 2000. This latter figure is identical to Apple’s 4% market share and they exceed Linux’s 1% share. The overwhelming operating system is Windows XP with 78% market share. There are also an estimated 300 million internet users worldwide. That means almost a quarter of a billion people are most likely using Windows XP.
Lets further assume that only half of them use the default setting of Automatic Updates and that most of them only go online once a week. Even with those pessimistic assumptions that would still mean more than 21 million downloads per day within a week of Microsoft issuing an XP security patch.
Neither do I…nor would I believe 8 million a second for even a day! Particularly when, from the figures quoted above, at least 95% of worldwide PCs use Windows and so they’ll automatically have the Flash Player installed along with the IE browser…even if they’ve subsequently switched over to an alternative browser like Firefox 
Plus, using your 300 mil figure, it would take about 40 days for every internet user to have downloaded Flash Player. So, unless Adobe’s releasing a new version every month, it’s not happening.
just an update: they did it.
I don’t want to change to FF3…
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