GTA Don Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 For you Firefox users out there, if your homepage is the Mozilla Firefox Start Page then you may have noticed that it says something about a Download Day 2008 or something along the lines. Well, Mozilla are trying to get Firefox 3 to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. All you have to do is pledge to download Firefox 3 on June 17th. They'll send you an e-mail to remind you when it's officially launched. Go to the Spread Firefox site, click on the PLEADGE NOW button, choose the region that you live in and your e-mail address to send you download reminders. I've pledged to download Firefox 3 on June 17th, now it's your turn.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 (edited) Hehe, Dark Lord linked me to that even before you made the topic. I pledged. I'm waitin. Edited June 17, 2008 by Spider-Vice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay_Jay Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 i pledged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grave Horror Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I pledged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 LOL, downloaded. Although some of the plugins were rather incompatible with FF3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 So today is the day. When do the 24 hours actually start? I'm still seeing pledge links rather than download links... Anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 ^ I expected it at 12:01 this morning, but still haven't got an email or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 LOL. This is sad for them. It's up on their ftp servers and everything but there's no links from anywhere on the firefox sites. Epic way to fail at a world record attempt. Damn. Wonder what happened. EDIT: Ok I've just found out the official release time is 10AM PDT (GMT-8), hence why it's not out yet. They could have at least publicised this on the site so we wouldn't have to make posts like I just did :/ just over an hour and a half to go then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Hmm.. And at which time on GMT 0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 That'll be 6PM for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Woot! A hour and 55 minutes remaining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA Don Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 54 minutes left... I was just sitting at my PC at 12 AM on the site, refreshing loads of times hoping it would be available for download, meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Oh shit, my PC clock is one hour down, just checked in my watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Server must be getting hammered to fuck. It's down. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Yeah, I noticed it. I want to download now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I wonder how many servers they have handling this. You'd think with what will probably be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people accessing the site simultaneously they would have added a few more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 There is no FF3 in Mozilla Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpilk901 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 (edited) I'm away to download it now! If I can get on the site... EDIT: Nope, it either won't load or a page will say "Network Error" Edited June 17, 2008 by FallenClyro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 And the Spread Firefox site gives Network Error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Mozilla Europe is back up but still with Firefox 2 stuff. I was refreshing the world record page every 5 mins but it's still down. I'm just gonna check back some time later and get it then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I have it, it's only a RC. O_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Holy shit another failure. World record page now loads (slowly) and they still link the 2.0 download page (which only has links to the latest RC of 3.0) What the hell is wrong with them? What have these 350,000 people who've already downloaded actually got? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott. Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I got RC, still looks pretty 1337. Fail.com for FF though.. expected better of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Yeah their servers are fucked. Meh, won't be on again till 10, so... hopefully by then i can get a download finally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott. Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 (edited) Finally got on the world record page. CLicked download FF 3 and it linked me to firefox 2. Wtf is up with that! EDIT: Just got given the full link form my sauce. May NOT be full. http://download1us.softpedia.com/dl/a7d1bc...Setup%203.0.exe Edited June 17, 2008 by Woozie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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