FireFox supposed 'world record'

[sekasi]

Had this in my inbox, probably like many of you guys



We did it!

We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.

You are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of


8 Million downloads in 24 hours is a world record? Having problem swallowing that since updates constitutes as software as well.. and windows update / mac osx updater should be able to best 8 million downloads in 24 hours without breaking a sweat?
:stare:

[BS]

Well they really didnt break a record either they were the first to set it. I also think you have to manually download it (windows and mac osx usually update automatically.)

[Templarian]

Don't worry Adobe will take the record, they break that number every day with Flash downloads.

[SlowChemical]

as you said thats a huge figure.. is there a way of checking the authenticity of the statement?

[Templarian]

^It was a 1 download per ip type thing is the way they did it. Thats the best way to really check it.

[Jeff Wheeler]

What constitutes having the user download the software? To download Firefox, you have to click a link to download it. To download an OS X update, you have to click Install Updates or whatever. It seems like this will very quickly be beaten by anybody who cares. :P

[ramie]

^ I suppose technically speaking an update is a patch to complement existing software while a download, in this instance Firefox, is the software in it's entirety.

Edit: not that i really care either way :D

[Jeff Wheeler]

Well, you’re correct from a technical point-of-view (which is what really matters), but Firefox 3 is really just an update to Firefox 2, from a non-technical point-of-view. :P

[sekasi]

Not really, FireFox 3 is a stand-alone application and doesn't complement anything. :p

[Jeff Wheeler]

I don’t really want to defend a position I created only to be facetious, but doesn’t it just have to build on an older version to be an upgrade? :P

[sekasi]

I think you're right, semantically speaking. I believe the word 'upgrade' just simply means something that's enhancing something older.

and I know what you mean, I don't really care either :P

[mlk]

Nice tag.

Whatever figure they achieved, it was awesome interesting as a marketing campaign.

And it's a nice browser, too.