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The New York Times ad…Firefox Flicks…the Firefox crop circle…Operation Firefox…you name it!  The Firefox community is always up to some cool, collaborative way to declare their passion for Firefox.  What better way to do this than band together to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours?!

It’s a whole lot easier and safer than donning a beard of bees or underwater jump roping. All you have to do is download Firefox 3 when it goes live on Download Day — some time in June. In the meantime check out Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3.  We’ll let you know when Firefox 3 goes out the door, kicking off our 24-hour attempt.

Here are some other ways you can help in the run up to Download Day:

* Get the word out; tell your friends, your neighbors, your grandma, anyone and everyone to participate in Download Day.
* Host a party to download Firefox; you provide the people and we’ll provide the party favors.
* Put a Download Day badge on your blog, profile or website.

With your help the Firefox community can go down in history!  If you have any questions or ideas please drop us a line at worldrecord @ mozilla.com.

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Signed up.

pledged

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hasn't plus already blown there goal out of the water before?

I wouldnt be supprised.

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All pledged up, although ive been messing with the minefields for months already lol.

I pledged. Greece has 446

Is it me or does the does the download link refer to firefox 2.0?

I just updated to version 3.0. Your link worked fine for me.

IE is better anyways

hmm now it seems to work... strange...

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I just got it from the UK site

I think I'm going to stop beta testing programs shortly. It sort of ruins all the fun of a new release...

Downloaded it anyway.

Am I the only person who was there to download the file and just got a corrupt *.exe? It annoyed me enough to refuse to download it again, I'll tell you that much.

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Am I the only person who was there to download the file and just got a corrupt *.exe? It annoyed me enough to refuse to download it again, I'll tell you that much.

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One and a half hours left...WE NEED MORE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE!!! Only 67,000

finally got it after 40 minutes exactly, and an average speed of 3.2kb/s (download statusbar ftw)

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finally got it after 40 minutes exactly, and an average speed of 3.2kb/s (download statusbar ftw)

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Finally, i waited half of the day yesterday (the 17th) and all i got was 2.0. Guess they picked a convenient American time to do an international event, how do they set an official record whith such bad communication?

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Finally, i waited half of the day yesterday (the 17th) and all i got was 2.0. Guess they picked a convenient American time to do an international event, how do they set an official record whith such bad communication?(Smilie)

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Just download a localized build from the us site....

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I've had two downloads today. I could do a few hundred more

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I've had two downloads today. I could do a few hundred more

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I've had two downloads today. I could do a few hundred more

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Weren't you on dialup ? But yea you could always start a download and end it at 0.01% and start again and so on...

I download it and even called up a few friends of mine just to tell them to download it, lol. I know its kinda lame but meh.

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Felu fails at wgetting
And yes, complete downloads, one per computer and all to be human initiated. If only I had to go to univ today
I basically have access to at least 300 computers
To bad only one of the many servers I have allows me to wget I wish Windows domains would give out remote access control Would certainly make life more fun (And yes, I'm allowed to download on my servers because its still one complete download per computer and human initiated ) If only I hadn't finished my exams on Monday, I could boost the Indian download count by a few hundred.
And I didn't have download speed issues Felu. I got my usual speed. It was done in like 3-4 minutes.

What about downloading one of each platform type (Windows/Mac/Linux) for the same computer by the same computer?

JA: I just thought you had a dialup connection, didn't know you had got broadband.

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But I use all three! Which was why it was annoying because I then had to go out and manually hunt down the Linux and Mac versions...

Download them from your Linux and Mac machines

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http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

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http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

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Yeah, i had to zoom out too.

Rah it doesn't show Australia. What's wrong with the size it's fine. It's not as if there's a lot of content you need to read.

I think it sizes to your screen's resolution, but i don't have my browser window fullscreen .

Also, http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ has a map with the current count of every country.

Yeah I've been refreshing that all afternoon, until Australia hit 100,000. Then I was happy and just gave up on it.

got my version!!

What is the number of downloads that Firefox must brake? If anyone knows?

Nothing. The record has never been set before. They were aiming 5 Million though and they got it.

* Menthix wonders what Messenger Plus' daily download count is around big releases

We should organize to break Firefox's record when the Messenger Plus Live 5.0 will be released.

I somehow think more people use Firefox than they do MP!L...so really MP!L probably wouldn't be able to break it...still, it might be fun.

The fun of breaking a record is the difficulty of it and the preparation. Though, I believe too that it would be very tough to break Firefox's record.

Is it even still going or what. Originally I thought it ended at 5 PM here then it was 6:16 PM but it's still going and the map keeps going up...

MenthiX's downloadcounter site seems to think it's still going too...

Meh, the bigger the better.

final 3 build released 10am PDT, so i guess it lasts to 10amPDT today./

Sorry if this has already been asked, but is firefox compatible with plugins like flash and such?

actually 8 million downloads in a day is very low compared to 9,000 downloads of plus per minute.

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very low compared to 9,000 downloads of plus per minute.

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thanks
Edited with the new firefox.

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Yes: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7.

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I think Plus! is more like 9000 per hour at the usual rate.

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I think Plus! is more like 9000 per hour at the usual rate.

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The fun of breaking a record is the difficulty of it and the preparation. Though, I believe too that it would be very tough to break Firefox's record.

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There's a really geeky kid, that I saw today... And he was running around putting up posters about firefox download day that he had made.... WIERD!

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There's a really geeky kid, that I saw today... And he was running around putting up posters about firefox download day that he had made.... WIERD!

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did he still have use of his mouth afterwards to tell you how many times he got beaten up by the neds?

God knows, I just laughed at him... hard

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*whispers in icd's ear* It was nearly funny, but I did say "I saw a kid running round _today_ *end of whisper*

* joey comes back, sticks his tongue out at nathan and runs of again.

he didnt put very much thought into it then, if he only put the posters up today...