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Tuesday, June 17 2008

Firefox 3.0 World Record Download Attempt  by Craig D at 09:28

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Firefox The final version of Firefox 3.0 is due to be released later today and Mozilla are attempting to break the record for most downloads of a piece of software in a 24 hour period, you can read more about that at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/.

Maybe later today you can participate in a new World Record? You'll also get a great browser in the process by the way, Firefox 3 is awesome.
Tags: Firefox
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Tricky
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17 June 2008 13:13
Ooo the excitement over a Web browser release

Seems to be 6pm BST for the final release over here.
Mani
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17 June 2008 13:16
can't imagine it will be any different to PC Rc2 or Mac rc3, been using both for a while.
Re0sLess
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17 June 2008 14:31
cant stand then new url drop down thing, that better be disabalable, else it will be more bloat hogging my poor work pc's 256mb or ram .... i remember the good oi days of 1.5 when .... /me starts a cs1.6 style rant
Mani
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17 June 2008 14:42
it uses MUCH less ram and the new searchable url bar is amazing, it will find anything in your history from visited pages urls and titles/descriptions, saves loads of time.
Re0sLess
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17 June 2008 15:06
thb it annoyed the c!@" out of me, but then firefox as a whole did at first, so maybe i'll get to like it.

On a lighter note, it looks like there is no current record for "most software downloads in 24 hours" so even if they only get one hit then the record is theres ... nice easy one then
Midnight
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17 June 2008 17:23
Do we have to reach a specific number of downloads in order to set the record?

This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We'd really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let's shoot for 5 million--the sky is the limit!

On their site.
Midnight
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18 June 2008 20:32
I'm likeing it a lot so far, it's a lot faster and more responsive and I love the new favourites stuff.
Maz
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19 June 2008 10:56
Been testing it for months <3 beta, looks like they hit over 9million downloads in the 24hour period.
Mani
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19 June 2008 11:09
Apparently 7 million people downloaded it in 24 hours, despite some server issues.
WUD
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19 June 2008 16:37
Im loving it so far.


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