Recently I decided to start playing with Firefox extensions, and I needed to create a DEV profile for myself.
As usual I googled and found a good article on lifehacker by Gina Trapani, I read it. I followed the steps mentioned and I realized that it is not working.
After some tinkering and guess work I found that article had one crucial step missing(may be not as article is almost year old, and things may have changed since).
So I thought I will quickly write those steps down, for every one.
Finally Firefox managed to get 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours.
This is when they were hoping for just 5 million.
Above picture was taken by John Resig. Let’s see if Firefox 3 can get into the Guinness books of world record.
By the way if you downloaded Firefox on download day then get your participation certificate from Mozilla and show off.
check http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/ for final numbers.
UPDATE:Firefox set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours, with total 8,002,530 downloads.
I can see many of you are disappointed that Firefox 3 downloads does not actually starts on 17th June.
I am hearing people complaining about start time of the event. What most of you forgetting is that it is a 24 hours event. That means for most of the world it will actually end on 18th June.
As you already know that Firefox 3 Downloads starts at 10 AM PDT, check out your local time. This means for India it is 10.30 PM on 17th June.
If it is late for you please don’t fear, you don’t have to download it at exact this moment, you have full 24 hrs to do so. This means that the download day will finish at 10.30 PM on 18th June, check out your local time.
So just relax on 17th when you wake on 18th download it and you will contribute to Mozilla foundations aim to make it to Gunniess book of world records.
Thus even if the event might be US centric and they have the rights, after all maximum pledges are from US, at last count it was 244,798. This is a huge difference compared to 20k-30k from other Asian countries.
I will be downloading Firefox3 tomorrow, will you?
update 1:0 AM 18 June : managed to download and install firefox3(FF3), sad firebug does not work, tried to get to firebug website but it is down… grrh…
update 7:30 AM 18 June : finally firbug updated, everything working like charm.
Firefox 3 will be released on coming Tuesday, 17 june 2008.
Check out the news on developer site.
So what are you waiting for get ready, and if you have not yet pledged your support do so now and help set a world record .
Spread Firefox team is now aiming for Guinness world record of most software downloads in a 24 hours for Firefox 3. They had recently launched a Firefox 3 t-shirt competition which saw 1,852 submissions.
In this attempt they are aiming to beat the 2 million download in a day for Firefox 2.0, they want to have 5 million downloads in a single day.
Their attempt to record will be verified by Guinness world record team and two judges Corey Shields and Paul Vixie.
The date of release is not yet set(some time in June most probably), but they are asking people to sign a pledge that they will download it on the Download Day 2008.
I have put my pledge, and so is other 93,551 other people(as of writing this post) . So what are you waiting for go and pledge now if you have not already done it.
One request from the community
Play nice. Help us set this record the right way.
Please do not build download bots or any kind of dishonest mechanism. We rely on and trust our community to spread the word.
This event makes me wonder how Microsoft will release their Internet Explorer 8.