Firefox's Download Day

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portackager · #1 Post by **portackager** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:23 am

Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

I think this is an amusing marketing campaign, I will probably download Firefox 3, and then use the portable version

appsuser · #2 Post by **appsuser** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:59 am

From www.theregister.co.uk:

Mozilla is trying for a record in a new category, according to a representative of the firm. That means it doesn't have an existing mark to better. The open source browser outfit aims to secure over 1.6m downloads over 24 hours.

portackager · #3 Post by **portackager** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:50 am

So it's Firefox Download Day, But mozilla.org and most of the download servers are bogged down, I keep getting "Connection Reset", "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" and slow connections. I guess Mozilla wasn't as prepared as they thought

PortableApp's is a little slow on the update, So I'll just play with my shiny new Firefox 3.0 in Sandboxie

portackager · #4 Post by **portackager** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:58 am

Oh Well that makes sence:

"Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers"

http://www.informationweek.com/news/int ... =208700161

GeddichNixan · #5 Post by **GeddichNixan** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:40 am

For those who can't wait for the portable version of FF3.0, here is a first version from a German website:

http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/stadt-b ... e_Firefox/

Don't worry beside the German one there is also an English version available.

For the German speaking users among us here the link to the website itself (it is entierly in German):

http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/category/po ... programme/

The guy who runs the blog often offers his portables for the public.

Simon.T · #6 Post by **Simon.T** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 12:31 pm

http://felipe.wordpress.com/projects/downloadday/

I was using this funny add-on for the last 15 hours or so

portackager wrote:I think this is an amusing marketing campaign, I will probably download Firefox 3, and then use the portable version

Same here

Wow!! It's 23:28 now (Israel), I'm refreshing this page every minute... and look at the numbers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not expected for this numbers in such a short time (I'm tracking this page for something like a week).

Firefox ForEver!!!

portackager · #7 Post by **portackager** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:52 pm

It's finally here...

http://portableapps.com/news/2008-06-17 ... rtable_3.0

It's mid-day and they've already beat the Firefox 2.0 record

1.6 million.

Right now it's almost 2.5 million

portackager · #8 Post by **portackager** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:05 pm

Simon.T wrote:...

Wow!! It's 23:28 now (Israel), I'm refreshing this page every minute... and look at the numbers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not expected for this numbers in such a short time (I'm tracking this page for something like a week).

Firefox ForEver!!!

You can also track the downloads from here: http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/

Kosher-X · #9 Post by **Kosher-X** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:37 pm

portackager wrote:Oh Well that makes sence:

"Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers"

http://www.informationweek.com/news/int ... =208700161

http://failblog.org/2008/06/17/firefox-release-fail/