Firefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinness

Punkster812 writes "Mozilla has gotten the results back from the Guinness World Records and the official number that will be set as the record is 8,002,530 downloads. The day started out a little rough for them, with server troubles during the initial launch, but once they got everything going, they were able to transfer 62,419,734 MB in 24 hours. You can get more information, including a breakdown of how many downloads each country did from around the world, by visiting spreadfirefox.com. Congratulations, Mozilla, on the new record."

Obligatory UserFriendly comic

[jeiler]

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080623 [userfriendly.org]

Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record

[gparent]

You could pick the country you signed the pledge from. Many people picked Africa for shits and giggles.

Just thing of all...

[dwiget001]

the chairs that died to bring us this news....

Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record

[Anonymous Coward]

Protip: Africa is not a country.

Speaking of obligatory webcomic references

[john83]

http://xkcd.com/198/ [xkcd.com]

Obligitory terrible joke...

[hbean]

Its amazing that over 300k people downloaded firefox from russia, despite the fact that in soviet russia, firefox downloads you. /groan

As Usual Ziff Davis Is Silent On This Major Story

[Skeetskeetskeet]

Fuck you ZDNet.

Re:North Korea

[Absolutexero]

That's because people in North Korea are evil, the videos of them in black and white are not actually filmed in b/w, they're just so evil, they have no color.... at least that's what Lewis Black said anyway

Re:Congrats on breaking the non-existent record

[mark72005]

Those pinkos didn't put America on there either!

Iran vs Saudi Arabia

[diegocn]

Amazingly Iran has far more download than Saudi. No wonder being an US ally sucks.

Are they counting source-code downloads too?

[mi]

Pre-built binaries are for wussies — real women and men build from source [freshports.org].

Holy shit!

[LordKaT]

Russia's huge!

french guiana in need of stone

[jessica_alba]

With their main industries being fishing, gold mining and timber they are unable to build a castle and advance to the internet age, hence their zero d/l stats.

Re:It is not a sign of success, really.

[f8l_0e]

It's not Microsoft they're worried about pissing off. Network Associates and Symantec pay OEMs good money to pre-install McAfee and NAV. If you promote a browser less likely to get a machine infected, and the 90 day trial AV doesn't intercept an infection, the AV makers have no reason to advertise their software on your machine.

Re:North Korea

[kalirion]

Minesweeper.

Re:Are they counting source-code downloads too?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, if by "real men" you mean pansies.
Back in my day, you couldn't earn your coding street cred without coding directly onto an exposed hard drive using a magnetized needle and a steady hand. That is, of course, if you don't have any butterflies [xkcd.com] handy.

Impressive considering...

[y00tz]

The previous record holder was the Paris Hilton tape.

Re:Obligitory terrible joke...

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot to click on "Other Stats" on the downloads per country page:

People downloaded by Firefox:

United States..... 0
Canada............ 0
France............ 0
Spain............. 0
Soviet Russia..... 8,548,674

That's a great title to this article...

[Ringl]

but I had the dev team pegged as Corona guys.