Be part of a World Record with Firefox 3.0
I have been using the Firefox 3 (FF) beta and RC (release candidate) for the past few months. It is really a great improvement over FF 2. The speed is faster and the interface is better.
Well, this should be old news now if you subscribe to tech news, but in case you didn’t know, FF is trying to break a world record for the number of downloads in one day. Officially, it is called Download Day. It is now know to be 17 June 2008. That’s next Tuesday.
The Download Day page is cool where you can pledge to click next Tuesday, then you then see all the different users that pledge around the world.
Setting Guinness world record is a fad nowadays. Singapore where I am at even have a game show for just for doing that. Quite a amusing show.
So support FireFox and be part of a World Record next week.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:05 am
It’s a bit early to download it just yet. It still doesn’t work with Google’s toolbar or Roboform just to name a few.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
i’ve been join the pledge and still waiting when firefox 3 released
June 17th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
It’s Tuesday 17th June. And I’m one of the millions loving firefox. Happy to help in achieving the record.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:27 am
yes firefox 3 is very fast…
I am already using it…
June 19th, 2008 at 2:48 am
I downloaded it yesterday, and installed it. It is pretty nice, but it did break my favorite theme (Noia), and a few of my plugins
Hopefully the theme / plugin developers will catch up soon. Especially since me and 8.4 million of my closest friends have downloaded it so far.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:54 am
I am loving the new firefox and got it up and running last night.
@Top Rated, you can use the “Nightly Tester Tools” plugin to fix a lot of the plugins that do not yet work. (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543)
June 19th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Well, I do hope the Firefox got the record for Guinness. I have not yet downloaded the latest version, I’ll try one of this days.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:25 am
I love the new Firefox it seems so much faster than the old one. I did find it funny that the site went down on dday. You would have thought that they would have been prepared to handle all the bandwidth. Oh well good for them breaking the record and then some. I love Firefox!
June 21st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
It seems like the Firefox download frenzy is slowly fading away, but Mozilla has some serious reasons to celebrate: in just two days, people from around the world have downloaded over 10 million copies of Firefox 3.0.
June 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 am
A game show for what – showing Guinness records being made ?
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Yep, mostly boring stuff like number of rounds a group of people can jump in a bean bag.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
[...] the record, Firefox 3 was downloaded more that 8 million times on Download Day. [...]
June 26th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I tried to install it but many of my plug ins doesn’t work especially firebug so I reinstall it and use Firefox 2 again as my browser.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:34 am
firefox 3 awesome bar sucks!
if u want to revert back to old style ff2 address bar then u can check this page out
http://www.crazylinks4free.com/2008/08/make-your-firefox-awesome-bar-work-like-old-firefox-2-address-bar.html