Mozilla Did It!

[Tgump]

For those of you who didn't know, Mozilla (makers of Firefox) planned and succeeded the world record for most downloads of a single program in a single day. 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 in one day.

For more info, the website is here: Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

Cheers

 

[wtp]

Good they made 8 million its close.

wait they had 28,588,187 downloads.

 

[Xtern]

i have firefox 3. it always crashes on me

 

[0017513060]

well even if they only got 1 they still would have got the record because there was none to begin with.

but what a way to raise the bar lol

 

[Macroman]

I'm surprised they made it, I thought allot of people would download it before the date.

 

[juvenilepunk]

I could have been one of those eight million if they made it usable for 98

 

[Sk80rdie76]

i downloaded it...its awesome, they just need more skins.

 

[Swan]

Another pointless stat-counting goal acchieved!

Overall I'm happy with the browser, and I would use it over Internet Explorer. That is all that I am required to say.

 

[hm0ng]

FF3 is okay but I hate the stupid book mark star thing. It's annoying and I have no idea how to get rid of it. Other than that, there's no big difference between FF2 and FF3 to me.

 

[Jesse]

Is it true that Microsoft bought them?

 

[†Tysonâ€Â]

Good for them. Theres too many records these days in my opinion lol.

 

[Faculty3000]

Congratz to Firefox. I saw the advertisement that Mozilla is goign to set the Guiness record. Although, this brower keep crashing on me. What is happening?

 

[Swan]

Is it true that Microsoft bought them?

Mozilla is a 3rd party company with free open source contributions to practically anyone with any type of computer. I doubt they would sell off to Microsoft unless they really had no choice.

 

[kingthi]

I am currently using ff3 right now =D, the new layout is pretty nice.

 

[shakaka]

Western Sahara: 0

lollerskates

 

[TJ]

I got a text message on the day that said i need to download it from Mozilla themselves, so i got home and did

On a side note, over 7m downloads in the U.S. alone

 

[jamzpkzsythe]

I could have been one of those eight million if they made it usable for 98

why are you on windows 98 lololololol

 

[kher0]

I use it . It's the BESt.

 

[Swan]

My personal preference is actually Apple Safari 3, though it runs to an inferior standard on Windows, I've seen.

Loads pages exceedingly fast on my computer compared to other browsers.

Anyway, on to the point:

Firefox 3 has more subtle changes than changes the user would notice at first. Sure, the interface has changed, but that was only so that it may look more "natural" to the OS in use. A lot of Firefox 3's improvements are in things such as security, parsing and displaying the information correctly.

I've actually looked at a very small portion of the code, and I can say I'm impressed.

 

[Jesse]

Mozilla is a 3rd party company with free open source contributions to practically anyone with any type of computer. I doubt they would sell off to Microsoft unless they really had no choice.

Nope, they did. http://www.msfirefox.com/