Mozilla 'Download Day' attempt at Guinness World Record
Mikey 11 comments
Mozilla have just announced they intend to break a Guinness world record for the largest number of downloads in a 24 hour period, to be attempted in the day of release of Firefox 3, or as their marketing team is now calling it - 'Download Day'. What the current world record is seems to be a bit of a mystery, and the crap-tacular search built into the official Guinness world record web site is of no use. The best I could find was this article from 2003.
You can show your support (as we are here on Rusty Lime) by pledging to download Firefox 3, hosting a online Firefox 3 party, inviting friends to participate, or by placing Download Day button on your web site. How anyone can resist the button below is beyond me.
And you can check out a map map pledges to-date and details on the official launch date here.
If you haven't tried Firefox but have been curious, now is the good time to see what all the fuss is about. It will change your browsing life. Once you tried it you won't go back to the dinosaur that is Internet Explorer.
...in response to this comment by Jake. Abso-tively. And yeah that's a biased response. But seriously it's awesome.
Gina Squitieri
Thursday 29th May 2008 | 11:54 AM(This is a test. This a test to see if I could place an image in a comment box.)
...in response to this comment by Gina Squitieri. Sorry Gina. The only HTML I am comfortable allowing is and strong and em
We allowed images once upon a time - it got seriously abused with all sorts of nasty stuff.
Rodney
Thursday 29th May 2008 | 12:03 PM...in response to this comment by Jake. Yes, it's another large step forward in browsing. Evolutionary, however, not revolutionary.
However I wouldn't leap on to it (Well, *I* would - but I don't suggest everyone does) if you're a big one for plugins, as many of your favourites won't be compatible for at least a short while.
...in response to this comment by Rodney. You can make your existing plugins work if you don't want to wait. In your Mozilla profile folder there is a directory called 'extensions' which contains folders of your extensions. Inside each is an rdf file (xml) which you can edit - simply edit the part that says what versions of FF the plugin can work on.
Gina Squitieri
Thursday 29th May 2008 | 12:12 PM...in response to this comment by Mikey. That is quite alright. Thanks.
Rodney
Friday 30th May 2008 | 11:20 AM...in response to this comment by Mikey. More gold.
Many thanks, Mike.
Jake
Thursday 29th May 2008 | 11:07 AMHere's the million Baht question though Mikey, is FF3 any good?