Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Mozilla
Firefox shoots for world record, ladies and gents...start your bandwidth!
by Drew Olanoff Jun 17th 2008
As you know, Firefox is releasing their version 3 today, and that's not all...Firefox wants to break the Guinness record for software downloads in a 24 hour period.1.5 Million people have said "YES I WILL DOWNLOAD!", you can be one of them and a part of a world record.
So download away! (Starting at 10am PT and 1pm ET)
Still on the fence? You can check a pretty long list of all of the things updated in this version. It's not about flash and whizbang features, it's more about stability, speed, and security. The "3 S's" that we liked to hear about from a company like Firefox that is growing up.
Give it a shot, be a part of history! Tell us what you think about Firefox 3.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mr. Taco said 10:10AM on 6-17-2008
Lame....it's still showing version 2 as of 9AM CDT.
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James said 10:30AM on 6-17-2008
RTFP, my friend -- if you look closely enough you'll see an official kickoff time, and 9am CDT is not it.
Mr. Taco said 11:09AM on 6-17-2008
I appreciate your cander; however, I must say that I've already downloaded it for OSX. It's still unavailable otherwise.
Will said 10:24AM on 6-17-2008
well www.filehipo.com is already giving ff3
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topbar1 said 11:33AM on 6-17-2008
File hippo is actually providing RC2. Look at the build date in Help About and file creation dates in the file archive.
If you download this and not Fx3 (final, gold, ...) when it is released, then you are also hurting the Fx Guinness Record goal.
Drew Olanoff said 11:34AM on 6-17-2008
Good point. Wait until the official site has the download available, that's the only way to know that you're going gold.
Matt said 10:24AM on 6-17-2008
has there been a google toolbar version released for FF3 yet? I got the del.icio.us beta and it works great in FF3
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Rid said 10:25AM on 6-17-2008
"...you can be one of them and a part of a world record."
Really? Just this once, I can be part of a marketing campaign? Truly my prayers have been answered!
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zkam said 10:58AM on 6-17-2008
I'm not downloading it until the portable version is available (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable), and even if they make it available today, will it be counted towards the total downloads?
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Todd said 11:19AM on 6-17-2008
Doesn't start until 10 AM pacific time! Wait until then spazoids.
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Ian said 12:13PM on 6-17-2008
Right 10am pacific June 17 = June 18 in much of Asia.
Really think Mozilla marketing is poor here; they've been hyping June 17 as "download day" but it isn't, unless you happen to be on the west coast of the US. This is no way to set a record.
Why aren't they either using the international dateline or gmt/utc?
cowboy_k said 12:26PM on 6-17-2008
10:00 PT = 13:00 ET = 15:00 UTC/GMT. I wish more times were announced this way - I happen to live in one of the few spots in North America that doesn't do daylight savings, so I've pretty much given up on remembering time zone conversions. Being a sysadmin, though, I remember my GMT offset quite easily (GMT-0600 FTW!)
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cowboy_k said 12:28PM on 6-17-2008
arrrgh... I must be sleep deprived... or stupid... or something... that should be 17:00 UTC/GMT, not 15:00. Time for some caffeine...
Stijn said 12:56PM on 6-17-2008
I believe I'm in GMT+1 and it's not till 1900 here.
So I think GMT is 1800.
Chris Proudlove said 12:44PM on 6-17-2008
Can anyone tell me if it's ok to simply download FF3 over the top of FF2? Or is not that easy?
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brookPT said 1:29PM on 6-17-2008
FF3 Final version already available on Softpedia,http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml
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