Stalking Venus

Despite all of the download day problems and poor organisation, it just goes to show what a huge following the Fox has… In 24 hours, over 8 million downloads. Guinness has yet to confirm the results, but it looks like the Mozilla uber-app is going to set and totally exceed the record.

Okay, so for those of you who are absolutely desperate to get their hands on the official FireFox 3 release, you can go and download it via FTP here.
It’s weird that I should have to report it as if it’s a bleeding-edge alpha that you’re going to be downloading. Especially considering that they are trying [...]

Don’t forget to pop over to the Firefox Guinness Record site and download the latest and greatest version of the world’s favourite web browser tomorrow, Tuesday 17 June, 2008.
Set a Guinness World Record
Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right?
All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set [...]

Mozilla is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a 24 hour period by heavily promoting their Download Day. They haven’t actually set a date yet, but they will. Can you feel the excitement? Can you feel the sarcasm?
No, seriously - I’ve been using a beta of Firefox 3 [...]