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It’s official!

Posted in Interesting and Entertaining on July 4th, 2008 by Shaun

With ove 8 Million downloads Mozilla officially own the Guiness World record for browser downloads in a singe 24 hour period. Firefox 3 is already a great browser, now it’s an official bona fide record breaker.

Dedication oh, oh, dedication oh, oh , dedication, that’s what you need.

If you want to be the best, soar above the rest.

Who-oh Dedication’s what you need

If you want to be a record breaker, yeah.

- from the theme tune that Roy Castle Sang at the end of the show

Tags: Firefox 3, Mozilla, World Record

World Record in the wings…

Posted in Interesting and Entertaining on June 19th, 2008 by Shaun

Looks like the Firefox download day may have produced a record after all. We’ll know in a week or so once the download logs have been purged and cleaned but the current stats are that over 8 million downloads occurred in the 24 hours allotted, and the count is currently at over 11 million so people are still downloading.

Looks like someone already found a security issue and there are a couple of bugs I’ve noticed and have been informed about. But, as is the mozilla way, we shall have an update for those in a week or so if not sooner :0)

The BBC website has a short article on the day’s success and SpreadFirefox has the current count and distribution map.Technorati Tags: Firefox 3, Download Day, World Record

Tags: Download Day, Firefox 3, World Record

Have you downloaded yet?

Posted in Interesting and Entertaining on June 18th, 2008 by Shaun

The Firefox 3 record download attempt seems to be going well there are over 5 million downloads already and there’s still plenty of time left. The download day finishes at 18:00 BST today so if you havent downloaded yet then get yourself over to SpreadFirefox download it and then you can select the Flaunt it link on the right panel to get yourself a nice custom certificate to brag about it ;0)