Firefox 3

jambutty · 18-06-2008, 12:05

Originally Posted by http://www.spreadfirefox.com and re-posted on http://goldentalk.com/showthread.html?p=142926

Download Day is here!
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That's 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.

What no GMT (BST)?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox?p=downloadday

You can also get your own personalized Firefox 3 Download Day certificate at:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form

emamum · 18-06-2008, 12:11

7.16pm gmt

entwisi · 18-06-2008, 12:20

heh,
Never a good day to have a server outage is there

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06...efox_3_debuts/

still FF3 i sgood, I still prefer OPera 9.5 though

jambutty · 18-06-2008, 12:30

I got mine and you can see it at http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/image/firefoxcertificate.jpg

Hopefully your outage will become an inage before 17:16 BST.

entwisi · 18-06-2008, 13:17

I've been running teh Beta for ages, as I said though I prefer Opera for everyday stuff, FF has a couple of uses for me but not much.

You can also easily skew teh figures,
I have 3 Pcs at work, 4 at home, old dears next door's I can remote access.

so 1 person can register 8 hits quite easily

jambutty · 18-06-2008, 13:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by entwisi

I've been running teh Beta for ages, as I said though I prefer Opera for everyday stuff, FF has a couple of uses for me but not much.

You can also easily skew teh figures,
I have 3 Pcs at work, 4 at home, old dears next door's I can remote access.

so 1 person can register 8 hits quite easily

Not hits entwisi but downloads and yes someone could skew the results.

But as each download goes to a different computer it isn’t really skewing things, is it?

No doubt that there will be some who will download FF3 several times to their own computer but I think that they may be wasting their time. They’ll get the download OK but it won’t be registered as a ‘new’ download.

I will install FF3 but as I don’t have any problems with IE 6 point something it will hardly get used. Maybe once in a while out of curiosity or if for some reason I can’t get to a web site of my choice I try FF or Opera. So far it has been a case of if IE can’t get me there then neither has FF or Opera been able to.