Help Firefox set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

Oracle

Help Firefox set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours, by registering on the Download Day site: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Ireland only has 418 pledges to date surely we can do better! Spread the word.

rogue-entity

573 pledges now..

stereo_steve

pledged ...

Oracle

Great, that's nearly 1,400 pledges from Ireland so far.

Agent Smith

Pledged

dent

Pledged, lets hope we don't crash their servers

DECEiFER

I'd be proud if it was us Irish who did cause a server crash, if one is to occur. :P

I've pledged. We're not doing too badly either, 3,381 pledges at the time of this post.

thejetset

Pledge!! OH YEAH!

Oracle

I'm glad there's been such a positive response to this here. But I think for Ireland's population we're way behind compared to other European countries. For example, Norway has a similar population size, but almost double the amount of pledges. Even Croatia with a similar population has more pledges!! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Europe

Please consider adding a link to your Boards or email signature to boost the Irish numbers.

BeciMester

3940 pledges now, including mine... Not too bad.

barnicles

WHat are pledges

Sherifu

barnicles wrote: »

WHat are pledges

Furniture polish.

BeciMester

Sherifu

barnicles: check out this page. People pledge to download the newest version of Firefox on the release date, and help in the attempt of setting a world record of software downloads in 24 hours.

barnicles

BeciMester wrote: »

Sherifu

barnicles: check out this page. People pledge to download the newest version of Firefox on the release date, and help in the attempt of setting a world record of software downloads in 24 hours.

4023 inc mine:)

Zorba

4604 including myself, wonder will this be like microsoft releases where u have to wait for the first service pack before u can really use the product ?

Mr. Presentable

Oracle wrote: »

Help Firefox set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours, by registering on the Download Day site: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Ireland only has 418 pledges to date surely we can do better! Spread the word.

Why?

kippy

Pledges-
Pledges are usually used as a barometer to see how many people are interested in (usually) donating something.
In this instance I find it extremely out of place. To "pledge" that you are going to download FF....and in doing so break a record........

turgon

Firefox is one of the greatest programs known to man.

Well maybe not, but it is unreal. Especially if you design web pages you will realize just how bad Internet Explorer is.

Caco

Isn't the launch date today?! I went onto the site and there's nowhere to download it

DECEiFER

turgon wrote: »

Firefox is one of the greatest programs known to man.

Well maybe not, but it is unreal. Especially if you design web pages you will realize just how bad Internet Explorer is.

It's more compliant to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards, the company in-charge of developing the web's standards. However, Internet Explorer 8 does promise an overhaul to make it more compliant. But I agree, Firefox is the browser of choice for me, too. I use it because it's faster and more stable.

ethernet

Caco wrote: »

Isn't the launch date today?! I went onto the site and there's nowhere to download it

It turns out it won't be available for download for our timezone until 18:00.

Caco

ethernet wrote: »

It turns out it won't be available for download for our timezone until 18:00.

Ah great, thanks!

Nichololas

Wait what? Do you have to get it through a link on the world record page? I just downloaded it from mozilla.com..

DECEiFER

Enlil_Nick wrote: »

Wait what? Do you have to get it through a link on the world record page? I just downloaded it from mozilla.com..

You probably just downloaded a Release Candidate. The official final version should be available at around 6pm our time, so the good folks here say.

The FAQ on the Spread Firefox site says:

How do I take part in the record?
It's simple--just download Firefox 3 as soon as it is available, preferably from Download Day Headquarters. You'll get a customized certificate by downloading from Headquarters.

Zynks

The pledge stats say a lot (to me at least):

- Ireland 5,924
- Vietnam 7,500
- Lithuania 6,300
- Romania 11,400
- Peru 7,600
- Iran 9,600
- Slovenia 7,400
- Poland 107,000
- Brazil 106,000

Before anyone comments on population, please check average income, internet penetration, and PC ownership data.

kierank01

dent wrote: »

Pledged, lets hope we don't crash their servers

I think you spoke too soon, I'm getting connetion timed out on all mozilla/firefox sites

Monotype

Clearly they haven't heard of torrents. This would be by far the most ideal way of distributing this. I can't believe they couldn't see this coming. A lot of people are going to get pissed off and not bother with downloading it.

Zynks

kierank01 wrote: »

I think you spoke too soon, I'm getting connetion timed out on all mozilla/firefox sites

There was talk of 5 million downloads expected. I would guess between 25 and 50% would be trying in the first couple of hours. Maybe their real plan is to crash the internet

Update: I just got in, clicked on download FF3, but got a page for version 2.0.0.14 or v3 RC3... strange.

kierank01

Monotype wrote: »

Clearly they haven't heard of torrents. This would be by far the most ideal way of distributing this. I can't believe they couldn't see this coming. A lot of people are going to get pissed off and not bother with downloading it.

I think that they wanted to do it directly from their servers, so that Guinness could verify exactly how many downloads took place

Kavkid

I think I'll wait until tomorrow to download it... they're having problems already. Oh well.

Zynks

Zynks wrote: »

Update: I just got in, clicked on download FF3, but got a page for version 2.0.0.14 or v3 RC3... strange.

There has already been 470k downloads. I suspect that when you get the email you get a different link.

tuxy

kierank01 wrote: »

I think that they wanted to do it directly from their servers, so that Guinness could verify exactly how many downloads took place

So more interested in some stupid record then deploying it the most efficient way.

DECEiFER

This must be a mistake?

BJC

tuxy wrote: »

So more interested in some stupid record then deploying it the most efficient way.

......do you just not get what this whole thing's about?

DECEiFER

I managed to find a proper link, modified from the Swedish version. I'm using Firefox 3 now.

Get it here:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

I think that's the link you should use in order for it to be counted towards the record. If not, then I will download it again, once I get a proper link. The download site Mozilla direct me to has a bung link (see my above post and screenshot). Use that link and you'll only get a "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" error.

kierank01

did a bit of searching, FF3 can be downloaded from:

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win〈=en-US

It downloaded for me in about 2min

You select your version with the GET variables. So, for other OS's:

Linux: change os=win to os=linux
Mac: change os=win to os=osx

Posted using FF3

tuxy

BJC wrote: »

......do you just not get what this whole thing's about?

Sure I do, I read the wiki page about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

DECEiFER

Use this to download Firefox 3.0. The page has been fully repaired and the link has been updated, and works fine now (at the time of me posting this).

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?p=downloadday

Sully

Download was hard to get - between the link failing and then the download being very slow, then Google Toolbar failing to download... but all works now!

ethernet

DECEiFER wrote: »

This must be a mistake?

Saw that also. It was fixed shortly afterwards though.

Sherifu

Downloaded with no probs.

DJ_Spider

I downloaded FF3 and now can't use my adblocker I was using Adblocker plus before but it wont work with FF3. Any ideas for a good one that's free!?

NotMe

DJ_Spider wrote: »

I downloaded FF3 and now can't use my adblocker I was using Adblocker plus before but it wont work with FF3. Any ideas for a good one that's free!?

http://adblockplus.org/en/installation

ethernet

DJ_Spider wrote: »

I downloaded FF3 and now can't use my adblocker I was using Adblocker plus before but it wont work with FF3. Any ideas for a good one that's free!?

Have AdBlock Plus working fine here

monkeyfudge

It's racing down for me at 4.2 KB/sec...

Nice nostalgia burst... Really feels like the 90s again.

Sherifu

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It's racing down for me at 4.2 KB/sec...

Nice nostalgia burst... Really feels like the 90s again.

I was reading their servers fell over earlier. I couldn't connect to the add on site. Not great timing

Bob the Builder

Sherifu wrote: »

I was reading their servers fell over earlier. I couldn't connect to the add on site. Not great timing

if you had to do something 500,000 times in less than six hours, you'd be crippled too!

Caco

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It's racing down for me at 4.2 KB/sec...

Nice nostalgia burst... Really feels like the 90s again.

DownThemAll ftw!

DJ_Spider

Got it now, might have been something to do with the many hits the site was getting and I downloaded the wrong one! Thanks peeps, working fine. Spider is a happy bunny again!

conceited

They have 7 million downloads so far but on download.com they have 27 million .

Monotype

conceited wrote: »

They have 7 million downloads so far but on download.com they have 27 million .

I suppose people got tired of waiting. I wonder if that's a real figure from download.com. It says 17 million there now. Maybe they started their counter to include the older releases.
38K downloads in Ireland. Not bad. Higher than the pledged amounts anyway.