The Industry Standard - Firefox 3 "Download Day" sets Guinness World Record - Comments

Mozilla is reporting that

Jennifer Boriss — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:26:02 -0700

Mozilla is reporting that confirmation has been received from Guinness for 8,002,530 people.
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/07/02/were-official/

I figured that $ will be

David Kuan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:16:32 -0700

I figured that $ will be frozen on this bet for a while in order to validate server logs as well as getting the nod from Guiness Record. Decided to cash in my winnings :)

How long does it take to

Eric Hill113600 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:40:41 -0700

How long does it take to verify server logs? ??

7,554,307

happyuser — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:51:37 -0700

7,554,307

The real interesting part is

Chris Tompkins — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:59:58 -0700

The real interesting part is the fire-fox hating Greenland crowd. 87?! really? New Caldonia had more than you!

At the time of this comment,

Lev Danilov — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:49:40 -0700

At the time of this comment, Iran has surpassed China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Poland, and Russia (among others); with Iran count of 178,728 and China count of 127,526. That's quite interesting.

The first part of this

Chris Tompkins — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:57:47 -0700

The first part of this prediction has but fulfilled at 12:58 PDT, with 5 million total downloads worldwide.

Current Downloads is

Hitesh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:34:17 -0700

Current Downloads is 4,861,313 it will touch around 6 Million soon. Hope we could find word firefox in genius books of records.

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it's halfway thru download

Phoenix — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:29:39 -0700

it's halfway thru download day and they've already passed the mark, up to 3,909,302... almost at 4. ...That's just rad.

Total Downloads: 3,000,072

Lev Danilov — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:41:26 -0700

Total Downloads: 3,000,072 and growing...

You can get the official

Chris Tompkins — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:19:41 -0700

You can get the official count at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

It seems to be around 1.2 million at the moment, with an average of 12k downloads per minute.

I still see Download

David Kuan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:38:21 -0700

I still see Download pointing to version 2? Spreadfirefox site also shows 579137807 downloaded? Thats over 579 million? Weird!

I was thinking about

Michael Rakers — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:17:00 -0700

I was thinking about "record" part of this. Couldn't Microsoft say they had x amount of users download SP2 or SP3. Or even the Tuesday patches.

At any rate spreadfirefox say 1,721,682 downloads as of this post.

Wow - I don't know about the

Eric Hill113600 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:19:09 -0700

Wow - I don't know about the rest of you, but FF3 is super, super fast. I'm not exaggerating. Wow!

Mozilla announced on their

Chris Tompkins — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:04:06 -0700

Mozilla announced on their blog that they will be clocking the record from the time that downloading began, not at 10 AM PST.

Firefox 3 "Download Day" sets Guinness World Record

Bradley Baker — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:31:04 -0700

Judgment on July 2, 2008:

The record is official, which the community correctly predicted. Paid out at S$100. --The Industry Standard

Original Prediction:

This is a prediction that Mozilla and Firefox 3 will be successful in their attempt to get a Guinness World Record set for the most downloads in one 24-hour period.

For this prediction to be judged a success two criteria must be met:
* Guinness must accept the attempt as an official Guinness World Record
* At least 3 million downloads of Firefox 3 must take place during "Download Day"

This prediction will close on "Download Day" and be judged approximately a week later when the results of the Guinness World Record attempt are made public.

From Mozilla's FAQ:

What is Download Day? Download Day is our attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day.

When will we find out if we’ve officially set the record? This will take approximately a week after our attempt date. Our judges and Guinness World Records™ need to review our download logs and validate our record attempt.

Do we have to reach a specific number of downloads in order to set the record? This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We'd really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let's shoot for 5 million--the sky is the limit!

Will I be able to find this record on the Guinness website or in the printed version of the book? We hope so! Guinness World Records™ receives many record attempt requests and can't accommodate everyone. Let's catch their eye by working to make this a spectacular record with millions of downloads and great, zany Download Fests.

(Ed. Note: The prediction close date was adjusted due to Mozilla's announcemnt that Download Day is June 17, 2008.)