# World Record!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 6, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500 "2008-06-06T13:17:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Loyx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Loyx)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/1 "2008-06-06T13:17:05Z")
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**](http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord)
😉
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### Author:  [@fester8542](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fester8542)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/2 "2008-06-06T13:44:16Z")
Not sure if I would flag that funny :bored:
Although I am a firefox fan and do plan to get V3.
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### Author:  [@Stratification](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stratification)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/3 "2008-06-06T13:49:45Z")
And it’s not the alpha, it’s the full release. Why funny though?
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### Author:  [@matthewjumps](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/matthewjumps)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/4 "2008-06-06T13:54:36Z")
Dammit I was hoping for a laugh ☹
Anyway, I’ll be downloading it 😉 hope it delivers
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/5 "2008-06-06T13:54:49Z")
yea they are referring to the full release,
does this record already exist?
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### Author:  [@redelite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redelite)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/6 "2008-06-06T14:01:17Z")
> [@fasterthanlight™;2337991](#):
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> does this record already exist?
I was wondering this as well, wonder what it is :lol:
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### Author:  [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/7 "2008-06-06T14:01:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Iamthejuggler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Iamthejuggler)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/8 "2008-06-06T14:07:19Z")
I assume the “funny” part is that they think it’s even close to being ready for release.
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### Author:  [@Stratification](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stratification)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/9 "2008-06-06T15:34:25Z")
They’ve got a pretty high mark to hit, some perspective vs. the Adobe Flash Player:
[http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1444](http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1444)
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### Author:  [@built\_by](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/built_by)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/10 "2008-06-06T17:39:08Z")
[quote=fasterthanlight™;2337991]yea they are referring to the full release,
does this record already exist?[/quote]nope it doesn’t exist yet.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/11 "2008-06-06T17:41:42Z")
Ok, so it doesn’t matter how many people do it, they’ll still get the record
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### Author:  [@built\_by](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/built_by)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/12 "2008-06-06T17:45:10Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/13 "2008-06-06T17:45:59Z")
I guess, but what stipulations could be applied to this?
1. User must not be an alien
2. …
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### Author:  [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/14 "2008-06-06T22:10:20Z")
Hah, Adobe wins. 8 million Flash Player installs every average day, way more on release days, Firefox has a lot to catch up to.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/15 "2008-06-07T00:07:32Z")
Ha. If the Adobe story is true (which seems pretty incredible), Firefox doesn’t have a chance. 😛
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### Author:  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/16 "2008-06-07T00:35:25Z")
I don’t believe 8 million a day for even a second.
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### Author:  [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/17 "2008-06-07T01:17:46Z")
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.
> [@TheCanadian;2338400](#):
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> I don’t believe 8 million a day for even a second.
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 😉
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### Author:  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/18 "2008-06-07T01:50:00Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@built\_by](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/built_by)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/19 "2008-07-03T04:11:03Z")
just an update: [they did it](http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form).
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### Author:  [@PsychE](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PsychE)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-record/262500/20 "2008-07-03T05:25:38Z")
I don’t want to change to FF3…