Sun 1 Jun 2008
Help Firefox Make the Guinness World Record
Posted by Bashar under Firefox, Internet, Technology
With the release of popular open source Firefox 3 approaching, Firefox have launched a huge ambitious campaign to make it to the Guinness World Record of software downloads in one day, the release day. Join the campaign, and help Firefox make history if you like here. See how the current map overlay is. Kuwait so far has 152 pledges. Yeah that’s right. 152 is my number, which means there are 151 geeks in Kuwait who have beat me to it. Thanks to being so lazy and busy to check the news last week. Our number though is not bad, compared 8442 in China!, 6889 in India. The majority in 80,000+ comes from the US, and surprisingly to me, Brazil has 36,000+!
With no such previous Guinness World record already registered, Firefox would make it into the world record anyway. It’s just a matter of by how much, and Firefox is aiming to beat it’s own 1.6 million downloads for Firefox 2. Pretty smart move I say, Good luck. I’m for it. FTW!
Popularity: 30% [?]
June 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I usually download one copy, then install them on multiple machines, so download count isn’t a true measure of Firefox’s popularity :/
June 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
3baid: Yeah that’s true. So you may want this time to make separate downloads ;)
And ofcourse, there will be the people faking multiple downloads. It’s still as close as you can get.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:51 pm
That is the case with me.. I have about 7 - 9 machines that I maintain personally and I will be updating all of them once I test for about a week or so, hopefully no crashes..
June 1st, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Just registered. Canada has 16000 + geeks I guess. Jordan has only 167. Sad.
Where do you read the news Bashar? (I should probably start reading these things.)
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Marzouq: You have a PC farm at home :). Well, just for the sake of the record, try to download individually.
Kroms: You’re alive?
I have something above 100 feeds added in Google Reader. I suggest:
TechCrunch
Engadget
Slashdot
The Register (Where I read the news) Wonderful source. Have digested weekly news summary I am subscribed to
LifeHacker for user tips and useful tools
How do I keep track of all those news? I don’t, really. Every now and then I open Google Reader and move through them using keyboard shortcuts J + K, star and share everything I see interesting.