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Mozilla Recieves the Guinness World Record certificate

blog.mozilla.com — Yesterday Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!

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  • BavarianTomcat, on 07/10/2008, -47/+4Great ! :)
    - Tomcat
    • Rewebbed, on 07/10/2008, -2/+10:/
    • MattBot5000, on 07/10/2008, -2/+47we can already see your name. you don't have to add it at the end of your post
    • chuckflip53, on 07/10/2008, -1/+6Don't post a comment unless it's witty or people will digg you down
    • WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/10/2008, -5/+1Awesome

      -WELLDOITLIVE

      Reminds me of Get Smart, "Shawn, Shawn, Shawn! See how annoying that is?!"
    • Wartz, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4I dugg you up because im such a rebel
  • gewissen, on 07/10/2008, -26/+3Yay! Time to celebrate (again)

    - Paul C.
    • cloak419, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5Who the ***** is Paul C. -_-? What's with all the signatures.
      -Frank L.
    • Barney255, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1I think it's that time of the month ¬.¬

      -Barney
  • antizycler, on 07/10/2008, -13/+82Well done Firefoxers of this world! Congratulations - that's an impressive number of downloads.

    Now let me install Firefox on my parents machine... ;)
    • DrAlanGrant, on 07/11/2008, -10/+4I don't like it when people call computers machines. It makes you sound old.
      • 3amboo, on 07/11/2008, -0/+10Some people don't like you, but I don't hear them complaining...
    • flimsy, on 07/11/2008, -7/+2Mozilla's next attempt will be setting a memory leaking record.
  • daFilms, on 07/10/2008, -22/+96Redmond's reaction... Firefox sets World Record, Microsoft implodes
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=f6e3EJqySpc
  • s0m31john, on 07/10/2008, -16/+2I'll be expecting mine in the mail, get on it Guinness.
  • bundwallah, on 07/10/2008, -13/+2I wonder how many people drank a Guiness on June 18 over a 24 hour period? :)
    • R2Bacca, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2less that the number of people who made retarded comments on digg during the same time period.
      • bundwallah, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1And far less is the number of people who have a sense of humor on Digg. Jackass. WTF? People don't know what a smiley face means after a comment?
  • BroodofEvil, on 07/10/2008, -9/+15Well deserved!
  • dpinkston, on 07/10/2008, -8/+1When do I get a piece of that for contributing?
  • DaviDTC, on 07/10/2008, -13/+7Cant wait to see this on the front page again within the next day or so from one of the dupers.
    • silvyn, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3I can't wait to see it on the front page of MSN...
  • tmyprod, on 07/10/2008, -15/+113What was the previous record?
    • seddyei, on 09/18/2008, -11/+6I had the same question...

    • Peaco19, on 07/10/2008, -4/+109There wasn't one.
    • Harbinger1080, on 07/10/2008, -1/+32Why are you being dug down? I think this is a valid point that doesn't really detract from how impressive the download count was...
    • twiztidsinz, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9Probably being buried because it's been asked in every story about the Mozilla record, and the answer is still "there wasn't one".
    • tmyprod, on 07/10/2008, -12/+12I'm pretty sure there is a pack of diggers/people who have the need bury any and all comments because they wet their beds at night because they were abandoned by their drunk pirate mother (yarrr) and have to pass their negativity on to the tubes in the hope that she will find the post and feel compelled to return home to them and admit that all the drunken piracy was really just covering up for the fact that she used to be a dude until one unfortunate night in Cincinnati.

      ...Or they just like being dicks.
      • Incomp3tnt, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4Dugg for the pirate. Only for the pirate.
      • darkjolt, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1My eyes gravitated directly to the (yarrr), and now I can't look away.





        YARRR!
  • livintoolive, on 07/10/2008, -9/+1Yawn. It's great, and I made my download contribution, but enough with these stories already. I don't need another story once the next version of the book is printed, either.
  • ansatsu29, on 07/10/2008, -12/+6Hail Mozilla! Firefox rocks!
  • Rewebbed, on 07/10/2008, -5/+4528,340,281 downloads as of 7/10/08 12:37PM PST

    http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
  • BlueLove775, on 07/10/2008, -12/+1They deserve it for an awesome browser, ABP FTW!
  • toast24, on 07/10/2008, -22/+8E before I except after C

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_before_E_except_aft ...
    • dpinkston, on 07/10/2008, -4/+2Hrm?
      • kevinisnthere, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2"Receives" in the title is spelt wrong.
    • Rewebbed, on 07/10/2008, -0/+22I before E except after C
      • mtekk, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3...or as in neighbor and weigh.
      • howdareyou, on 07/10/2008, -0/+7FF before IE.
      • feeboo, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1http://alt-usage-english.org/I_before_E.html

        excerpt:
        beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign,
        dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
        foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige,
        greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
        leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient,
        rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, sheik,
        society, sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight,
        weir, weird
    • Atomic1fire, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1we live in a weird society
  • Table16, on 07/10/2008, -12/+1Killing Internet Explorer one download at a time. Mozilla Firefox.

    Awesome job guys.
    • madeingermany, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1As long as most PCs come with IE preinstalled, I don't think we Firefox downloaders will grow to be the majority.
      • prophetpimp, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3not in Europe they don't. EU FTW........
  • Kanele, on 07/10/2008, -14/+2i want my name in, i participated in this record :V
  • blindhammer, on 07/10/2008, -14/+2I don't know. Seems like there' s a World Record for everything these days. Yippie!
  • nutmac, on 07/10/2008, -17/+0Graet! Mozllia totalyl desreved thsi awrad!
    • mrgermy, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2Burried for really bad spelling.
    • IllBeBack, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2Did you take your dyslexia meds this morning?
  • sockpuppets, on 07/10/2008, -18/+22Microsoft will get it next week by releasing some trivial service patch via windows to 1 billion computers at the same time.
    • Table16, on 07/10/2008, -1/+10Haha, that would be a Microsoft move.
    • twiztidsinz, on 07/10/2008, -3/+9Are you people not bothering to read all the other "wait till -other software developer- releases a patch/update! i bet the record will be broken then!!!" comments?
      For it to count to the record, it cant be an automated download (which INCLUDES Patches and Updates!!!!!) It's been posted on just about every response to the SAME comment ever since Mozilla came out and announced it in their World Record FAQ.
    • InverGoatie, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0Not sure that would even count, given that it's a push service as opposed to a pull. The user hasn't chosen to download the patch, it's been done automatically by Windows Update...

      Would be kinda unfair in my book!
  • voldron, on 07/10/2008, -12/+1And then for some unknown reason the patch will cause a world wide blue screen thus resulting in Microsoft's Guiness attempt to be nullified. In reaction to Microsoft's failed attempt, linux distro downloads will hit an all time high. Open source wins outright once again.
  • FreakyT, on 07/10/2008, -16/+7It's a shame Firefox 3 is so horribly unstable...everything else about it is great....
    • brainscab, on 07/10/2008, -10/+3yeah it crashes on startup for me sometimes.
      • Canadian0207, on 07/10/2008, -7/+4it crashes for me a lot too. i hope they fix that.
    • voldron, on 07/10/2008, -10/+4Firefox the becoming new IE, please tell me it isn't true.
    • ccanni1028, on 07/10/2008, -2/+1Everyone I know (myself included) has had no problems with stability.
  • norle, on 07/10/2008, -16/+41Actually, "8,002,530 PEOPLE downloaded Firefox 3" is inaccurate.

    I downloaded it six times: Once from work, four times for desktop PCs at home, once for my laptop. I'm guessing many others have done the same.

    Still Dugg for amazingness...
    • BAMAToNE, on 07/10/2008, -3/+10I don't know why you're being dugg down. I was going to point out the same thing. There were, perhaps, 8,002,530 unique downloads, but my three (from home, work, and laptop) would have been counted separately. So no, over 8 million people didn't download Firefox.
      • EpicSelekta, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2He's getting dugg down because a lot of people don't HAVE 6 computers, or even 3, or even 2. It wouldn't have made that much of a difference.
      • MrTulip, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5one for kubuntu, one for xp, one for work.
        that and for sure there were thousands of fanbois who just downloaded till their mousefingers broke
    • flaxx, on 07/10/2008, -2/+5you forget that there are families, like my own, where 6 different people have 6 different computers all behind one router (i.e. a single external IP address). So we get counted as 1. Even if they just count downloads (not unique IPs) we only downloaded it 3 times because the Mozilla web server was so unreliable that day. So it was just distributed in our network via file sharing.
    • CAisBacK, on 07/11/2008, -0/+5It Should have been "8,002,530 Downloads"
      • brownspank, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1That's what the record was set to claim anyway.
    • EricDraven, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4I guess you're correct.

      Lifted from the Firefox Download Day FAQ. (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq ...

      "Can we download more than one copy of Firefox per computer?"

      No, please play nice and only download one copy of Firefox per computer. We ask that you refrain from creating download bots or any other mechanism that would be cheating. In order for our attempt to be legitimate, each download must be human initiated.
  • brainscab, on 07/10/2008, -12/+48 million? Steve Balmer just pissed his pants
  • gall0wsp0le, on 07/10/2008, -11/+3The Colbert Bump did it.
  • LuckyBucky, on 07/10/2008, -7/+1You Friggin' Rock Firefox... And some called it a "Silly Quest for Guinness Book Fame"
    http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007134 ...

    This is great marketing and a fun stunt. What's next for Firefox? I say Obama pick Firefox for his VP. What says yee?
  • kweee, on 07/10/2008, -10/+1Uh, I think I should get a tiny corner of that certificate. I downloaded 3.0 twice on launch day. :)
    • nuno86, on 07/10/2008, -1/+0Why are you so happy about downloading it twice?
      You broke the rules. They asked everyone to download it only ONCE.
  • SeaweedWater, on 07/10/2008, -9/+2Wonder how long Mozilla had to grow their fingernails for that certificate.
  • insomniac8400, on 07/10/2008, -14/+9I fail to see how the Guinness book of world records can choose to ignore Microsoft updates. Consider Mozilla's market share vs. IE's. Microsoft most likely beats this record every patch Tuesday. Even if Mcrosoft doesn't give it's numbers out, simple logic can be used to realize Microsoft is pushing way more downloads in a 24 hour period. Or what about AOL updates when that was the number one ISP? Just because you don't like the company, doesn't mean you can ignore that the size of their user base guarantees they have beaten this many time over.
    • Peaco19, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3Automatic updates didn't count.
      • insomniac8400, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1That's crap a lot of those people who downloaded the new version most likely did it before their browser tried to auto update or because their browser notified them of the new version and they chose to download instead of auto update. If automatic updates don't count, why should a download from an automatic advertisement?
      • Peaco19, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Mozilla had automatic updates disabled during the 24 hours.
    • scheibs14, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6Maybe they will add "voluntary" download vs. "automatic" download
      • insomniac8400, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0Is it an automatic update if you manually go to windows update? Definitely not. Microsoft did not always have automatic updates. I would also bet xp sp1 beat 8 million downloads in a 24 hour period.
      • idleidol, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0I doubt very seriously if SP1 beat that mark.

        Your average user is going to be 1) unaware of the update 2) incapable of figuring out how to get it 3) use the computer infrequently, thus evening out the download curve

        Your typical windows power user is 1) too well informed about microsoft update history to install a service pack on release day, as no good can come of it

        leaving jackasses who know just enough to get themselves in trouble with a computer, microsoft zealots, and people with update OCD.

        I doubt the latter was enough.
    • Lukesed, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1You might as well count every hit google.com gets because of the script in it.
  • JoaoPe, on 07/10/2008, -11/+2Isn't a "patch" like Internet Explorer 7 deployed through Windows Update downloaded 10 times higher than 8 millions?

    Don't get me wrong, just asking! Firefox ftw
    • npowel, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2Sigh. It's been done a million times but I'll do it again...

      It has to be a voluntary download, automatic downloads (including patches, etc) don't count.
  • bigjosh359, on 07/10/2008, -12/+1Downloaded it and then went back to v2. It's not that great...yet.
  • 8347, on 07/10/2008, -8/+0That's only because Windows keeps crashing! I keep having to re-download the software!
  • thebza451, on 07/10/2008, -6/+46first it was "mozilla attempts world record" then "mozilla acheives world record" now it's "mozilla receives world record certificate"... what's next, "mozilla frames cert and hangs on wall"? geez we get it...
    • CAisBacK, on 07/11/2008, -1/+6You Forgot "FireFox 3 Boosts Browsers Market Share"
    • ohitsme553, on 07/11/2008, -5/+0Wait for the onion to do a piece on it...
  • KaiSe7eN, on 07/10/2008, -10/+1On my birthday too, sweet.....
    • KaiSe7eN, on 07/10/2008, -3/+1Wow Digg.....full of a bunch of ***** haters. ***** 12 yr old kids.

      Must not believe June 17th is my birthday.
  • jimmies, on 07/10/2008, -9/+4Congrats to Mozilla!
  • Daniel591992, on 07/10/2008, -7/+2I love the site's design. And yes, congrats to Mozilla. Well Deserved.
  • codyr, on 07/10/2008, -8/+17I don't want to be a hater... I love Firefox... good job on beating your own record, however, I'm subscribed to Ben Forta's (Adobe's Coldfusion Evangelist) daily newsletter and he pointed out this World Record attempt on May 29. Adobe has average 6 million downloads a day (this year alone) of their Flash Player 9 software, with some days publicly stated by Adobe at 10 million, but "Largest number of software downloads in 24 hours," this is not.. Well, without further ado, here is the email entry I received:

    ***
    Ben Forta's Blog

    Sorry Firefox, Download Day Won't Set Any Records

    Posted: 29 May 2008 12:32 PM CDT
    Download Day 2008 is a planned attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in a single day. As per the FAQ, they'll need over 1.6 million downloads, but want to shoot for 5 million. Which is nice, but sorry Firefox, that'll be no record. Flash Player blows that number away daily, not the 1.6 number, I mean the 5 million number. There have been over a billion downloads of Flash Player this year alone (less than 5 months), which averages out to over 6 million a day. And we've actually publicly stated that we've had days where downloads exceeded 10 million in a day. Don't get me wrong, I love Firefox, use it almost exclusively, and will definitely be downloading Firefox 3. But a Guinness World Record? Sorry, that's quite unlikely. (http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/5/29/Sorr ...
    • Puppetfunk, on 07/10/2008, -4/+7Flash is pretty much required though. I don't think something that you need to do most things on the internet. Firefox 3 was something that people figured out how to do on their owns.
      • padiq, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1You don't need flash to do "most things on the internet" ...
    • codyr, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4Flash isn't required by any means, I'd agree it's preferred, but not required. The Internets don't _break_ without Flash, they're just less engaging and not quite so fancy. Many businesses don't install Flash. My iPhone doesn't have flash, yet I browse the nets daily on it. Besides, no bending the rules after the fact... it was "Most Downloads in 24 hours"... not, "Most Downloads of Something Not Required in 24 Hours"....

      I'd just like Adobe to submit their numbers to GWR.
      • brownspank, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1The Internets don't _break_ without Firefox, either. OSes have their own default browsers.
    • boyzo, on 07/11/2008, -2/+3oh, sorry... i thought it was clear to understand that the record did not implied auto-updates.
      To make it clear: ADOBE NUMBERS ARE BASED ON AUTO-UPDATES DOWNLOADS
      If its not clear enough, why don't you ask windows for their numbers? I hate microsoft but they surely have amazing numbers of crappy auto-updates downloads in one day.
    • Rethread, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0Adobe PDF is required by your governmental overlords. Bow down.

      NOW.

      (and the uploader auto-loading every GD time the computer starts? Is that really necessary??)
  • slsashrk, on 07/10/2008, -9/+018,200,880,005,530 Holy Crap! That's a lot of downloading!
    • Br3ach, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3Are you high?
      • slsashrk, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2I guess it would've made more sense if I could attach a screen shot to show how digg lays out text on widescreen displays w/ minimal spacing so numbers jumble together...

        oh well

        :/
  • kevinisnthere, on 07/10/2008, -10/+3Tomorrow on Digg: iPhone Firmware v2.0 Breaks World Record for Most Software Downloads in a 24 Hours
    • Rethread, on 07/11/2008, -1/+0This is a wonderful web thing. It's a shameful piece of Republican trash that would deny this publicity.

      Hehehe... Democrats are far more direct. We don't tolerate BS in private.
  • mrbradg, on 07/10/2008, -8/+3Man both dudes are frugly in this pic. Got to love geeks.
    • Louis11, on 07/11/2008, -1/+2Gay.
      • Rethread, on 07/11/2008, -1/+0God loves Gay. In fact God loves all the little critters on the planet. Including his plants. Which have you eaten lately.
  • nypix, on 07/10/2008, -9/+3Where's the porn downloader certificate? I'd like to contend.
  • mister711, on 07/10/2008, -5/+8i before e, except after c
    Receives
    • CAisBacK, on 07/11/2008, -2/+0Good catch... shame on you FireFox, we'll take that certificate back...
      Reason: Fans do not know how to spell.
    • linuxpenguin, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4Well that's weird. . . your rule doesn't always apply.
  • adamjordanevans, on 07/10/2008, -6/+2I take it patching ***** software en mass doesn't count?

    Firefox rocks!
  • Thclife, on 07/10/2008, -7/+1didn't america have the most downloads?
    this is a very good record..
    hard to beat too. a thanks to all firefox pleges.
    WE DID IT! (we the plegers)
  • Br3ach, on 07/10/2008, -9/+2Eat that Internet Explorer!
  • ohitsme553, on 07/10/2008, -7/+0Its kinda a fraud though. I started to download it then cancelled it. So it should be 8,002,529. ;)
  • mictron3030, on 07/10/2008, -8/+3what do we win?
  • EpicSelekta, on 07/10/2008, -9/+4Nothing says "sausage fest" like Mozilla throwing a party.
    • tnoy, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1There is bound to be a few women there that don't have a penis.
    • Louis11, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1There are women in the background of the picture . . .
  • SLockhart, on 07/10/2008, -7/+1I don't get it. Windows updates are software right? Every time Microsoft puts out an update 10's of millions of computers download it automatically within 24 hours. What am I missing here?
    • linuxpenguin, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1Patches and auto-updates don't count.
  • brettotte1, on 07/10/2008, -2/+1***** FF3 for making me backup & import my bookmarks! How hard is it?!
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