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FireFox 3.0 - Help set a Guinness World Record!

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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.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Last I checked, they were averaging around 10,000 downloads per minute...
Download Counter: http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
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I was just gonna post a note like this. It's moving along quite nicely - more than 1.8M additional downloads since I got it this evening.

Interesting to see how many, or how few, downloads from various countries - be sure to mouse over the map on the worldrecord page.
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I downloaded it yesterday.
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So is it a bon-e-fide Guinness World Record?
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So is it a bon-e-fide Guinness World Record?
Considering there was no record in the category before, any documented submission becomes the record.

It's a matter of whether the Guinness people will accept it (probably will). Their threshold is much lower these days than it used to be.
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Well I will def keep my eye out for it.
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bleh. Just put up a botnet of machines you bought from some script kiddie and set them to repeatedly download it.
Voila, millions of downloads.

Remember: download counts don't say a thing about actual users, and even less about actual persistent users.
I tried pretty much every version of FF, and quickly abandoned all of them.
Yet they probably count me for 5 or 6 downloads at least.
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Valid point. How would Guinness determine/validate the claim?
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I dunno but thats what the site says that they are doing at the moment. They got about 13 million downloads and that must have to count for something at least!
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what about the script kiddie botnet machines theory?
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