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Mozilla Firefox breaks non-existent world record - nobody cares
Remember, that whole Firefox download day thing that we got so amped up about? Us too.Remember when their servers screwed the pooch for most of "Download Day"? Us too.
How about that vulnerability that affected all 8 zillion of us who downloaded version 3? Yep, we remember that too.
Now you can put all those rough memories behind and sleep easy. Today, Mozilla "officially" announced setting the record, with 8,002,530 downloads on the release day of Firefox 3. It's fair to point out that, nothing was broken here... this was a new record, hence "setting" and not "breaking".
Will you remember Mozilla set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours on June 18th, 2008? Neither will we.
But congrats on still being #2 Firefox. Let us know when that changes and we'll jump around and party like it's 2035!
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsAndrewJul 3rd 2008 6:40AM
Surprised that so many people hated the post. I thought it was hilarious. And I use FF3.
whaleyboyJul 3rd 2008 7:05AM
It's close to 4000 diggs on digg...so I guess somebody DOES care. What were you thinking posting this tripe?
GoOrangeJul 3rd 2008 7:37AM
While I didn't particularly get excited about the "news", the actual release did excite me a bit.
This post seems very un-Download Squad like. Personal axes to grind are probably better served on a different blog.
Disappointed.
idodialogJul 3rd 2008 8:00AM
Well Drew I too think that your post was a bit of plain nastiness. I have no issue with criticism but yours is not that - it also fails to recognise the desire on the part of Moz to get the word out there, that is was harmless, even fun and that by any stretch it succeeded. Its also not like they were selling is a lemon.
Furthermore your pathetic defenses don't hack it with me either - bad taste is what you've left me with.
RidJul 3rd 2008 10:03AM
You make them sound very generous in their humanitarian mission to spread Firefox. They are a company, they seek to make a profit, this was an advertisement. It doesn't matter if they are 'spreading the word' any more than that is a defense for MS forcing use of it's browser anti-competitively.
Rob BourneJul 3rd 2008 9:02AM
"It's fair to point out that, nothing was broken here... this was a new record, hence "setting" and not "breaking"."
So, er, why put 'breaks' in the title then? A bit stupid, no?
ChristianJul 3rd 2008 12:29PM
I may not use firefox a lot but that's an awfully mean photo...
hiimcliffJul 3rd 2008 1:21PM
Jeez, what a kill joy. I mean has any browser overtaken IE's market share? Cut FF a little slack. 8 million people in 24 hours we were excited enough to download the browser is an accomplishment. Maybe not a huge accomplishment, but an accomplishment none the less.
julianJul 3rd 2008 8:59PM
ah now i think this is funny.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/03/firefox-3-download-day-a-huge-success/
tuaw had a rather complimenting article
Dolores ParkerJul 3rd 2008 11:37PM
Guinness, schminess. Just give me a pint of the real thing and let the little boys hold onto their "record" book.
clintJul 8th 2008 11:07AM
yes, let's all celebrate how many times internet explorer is automatically downloaded and installed without any user interaction so it can sit there on your desktop while you use a decent browser called firefox.
yes, microsoft needs fanboys to defend it against the big evil firefox, good job, you helped them out! now their kids can have shoes this winter!
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