Will Firefox 3.0 establish a Guiness World Record of 1.6 million downloads in 24 hrs.?

I'd wager "YES" on this question but I don't want to hold my breath waiting for Guiness to create a new category.

lol, how lame. I would never have a party to further the aims of a huge corporation and get nothing in return!

LOL! Mozilla is giving you Firefox 3 for free.

I use the latest FireFox 2 version and it kicks ass. I'll be switching to 3 once I know it's stable. If everyone knew how good FireFox is they would stop using Internet Explorer unless they had to.

But markov, you don't want to further the aims of a huge corporation. I mean, they're all corporationey and stuff.

I find 'open-source' to be a business model worth supporting.
I have been using Firefox the last half year or so and still finding features and add-ons that impress me.
Maybe there's something I don't realize but I feel a strong sense of anti-corporation satisfaction by supporting open-source software.
I bought a cheap laptop with Vista on it around christmas and it would occasionally crash on IE7 out of the box. That's what led me to seek and find Mozilla Firefox.

Thanks Microsoft.

Funny, tme!

mork: My thoughts exactly. Microsoft is the best advertising open source software could ask for.

How many users will click on the button "new version 3 available" ? LOL

"LOL! Mozilla is giving you Firefox 3 for free."

The thing is, I have no loyalty to them anyways. I love Firefox 2, I really do, especially since I run it off my flash drive and take my add-ons and bookmarks with me to every computer in the school. But if someone else makes a better browser I'm using it, it's that simple, so I'm not going to help FF get a huge market share out of the gate. If the product is as good as we expect they will get it anyways, and if not a new and better browser wont have to work so hard to gain the support it deserves.

So until they pay me, I'm not going to be so partisan about my browser ;)

my points here:
spreadfirefox.com has less than 1,3kk ppl signed to receive the email about ff3
ff3 is going out supposedly on a week(17)
so it does needs more dls than ppl signed up(the ppl signed up are "guaranteed"), AND they need the guiness to create a world record for "most downloads in 24h"
dont think its gonna happen =p

"If everyone knew how good FireFox is they would stop using Internet Explorer unless they had to." I agree.

i agree too :)
but thats not the point imo - its ok, everybody uses firefox
a lot of ppl will still use firefox2 on the first 24h of release of ff3
AND we need guiness to create a new category, for downloads =x

Someone made a comment about not supporting Firefox - just using the best browser. That's such an apathetic view that it's a disgrace. Here we are mostly in agreement that Mozilla is making the best features and increasing speed and so on. Surely more support is going to help - it's open source and they have hundreds of volunteer coders and testers working on it day and night for the love of it (yes they have some paid employees too). You have three choices:
1) support another company - but why support a company that isn't "made by the people for the people", and produces an inferior product
2) support no one and just take whatever appears. Yes you get to use the best browser but it's a selfish view and if we all did that there'd be no Mozilla
2) support Mozilla for producing such fine products. Their brand improves, name recognition spreads, and more and more people help out to produce something simply amazing that couldn't be done in a regular company structure.

But hey, it's your choice.

well.. the new version supposedly burns less memory, but I've got seven tabs open and it's using up 153,568K of memory. I bet that's Hubdub using all the memory for their silly "pundit watch" thing. But Shojun, good to see that's their still some blindly loyal Mozilla fans out there. Never let reality get in the way of the dream eh? Apparently Walt Disney is still on ice, waiting for a decent version of Mozilla. Hold on! It's down to 146K. I take it all back. Now it's at 150K.. is nothing dependable?

Sorry, I meant Firefox of course.. all this branding...

I wouldn't call myself blindly loyal - I install every new version of every browser - IE, Opera, etc to try them out. But when you've got a successful community building a great product, well, I can't see much else that could be worth supporting more. Unless maybe Google developed a browser, that could be interesting ;)

Kinda funny how the Mozilla browser faded into the background when Firefox came along.

Interesting that you're burning so much memory - that's unusual. Any flash etc on those pages? Video? What plugins do you have?

And they're not without their problems either, security bugs, exploits and the like - but the time to fix is so much better as you have a dedicated community for those. As opposed to an office worker who gets a bug report and goes "oh I'll look at this on Monday".

I'm not suggesting we all lay down our tools and start making stuff for free, but it's great that a lot of people's spare time "hobby" as such has evolved into this.

/sorry, it's Friday, I get to spout lots of drivel ;)

cool, a discussion on topic with the question. not with hudbub rules or superusers.
thanks everyone in here :)

Some examples of what Guinness is into:

Man Eats Airplane; http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9806/11/fringe.mr.eat.everything/
Longest Nose; http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long127.html
Biggest Cookie; http://www.immaculatebaking.com/ibc-oc-wbcstory.php
Racing Furniture; http://www.cummfybanana.com/cars/cars_homepage.htm
Longest Handshake; http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=153227&in_page_id=2

I would like to try firefox but does my antivirus software transfer to that? not the windows anti virus but my own....

ok went to their site and i see my question has been answered

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
The number of downloads has been reached.

Yes, but did Guiness create a new category?? I believe both had to be true, the download number + Guiness category for the question to settle as yes.

ltmod, I flagged this last night for the same reason - I've not gotten a response.

I take that back, Nigel did clarify in the settlements section. He says we should wait for Guiness to establish the category. I'd feel a lot better if this market was re-established - even if it was suspended as the suspend date has been reached. I'd be a little miffed that I lost 1K without the opportunity to pull it after they reached the 1.6M but before Guiness approved it but that would be more palatable than having it settled before the criteria for settlement were obtained.

That will teach you for making such a stupid prediction then.

Unsuspended so the remaining open part of the question (will Guinness establish the record) can be traded

http://youtube.com/watch?v=47Qf944u-mw