Mozilla Wants to Set World Record with Firefox 3.0

Category: Software
Posted: May 29, 2008 10:50AM
Author: Nemo

It may sound crazy, but Mozilla wants to set a world record with the upcoming release of Firefox 3.0. Mozilla is asking users to join in a pledge campaign promising to download the latest version of its Firefox browser on release day in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most number of software downloads in 24 hours. While the official release date has not been announced, you can follow the link above to the pledge site for more information. Mozilla expects the release to happen in June. According to the site, no record of this nature has ever been attempted so their goal is to beat the 1.6 million downloads recorded by Firefox 2 on its release day and hopefully hit 5 million downloads. Mozilla is asking everyone to play nice and not download multiple copies and is taking pains to not count incomplete or duplicate downloads.