World Records, Mozilla and Beyond
by JR Raphael on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Mozilla is well on its way to a new world record with the release of Firefox 3. The program was averaging 14,000 downloads a minute — or 13 gigs of transferred data per second — just hours after going online Tuesday afternoon. Mozilla hopes to have the number secure its spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloads of a single program within 24 hours.
Other technology companies are thinking about getting on the bandwagon, too. The following is a list of records expected to be achieved in the coming year:
- Most considered business deals within a single month: Yahoo
- Most nightmares about losing his job within same month: Jerry Yang
- Most phones sold within a single year: Apple
- Most nude shots of teens taken on same phones, sent to boyfriends, and then leaked on the internet within same year: Apple
- Most ignored complaints about discontinued software support in 2008: Microsoft
- Most instances of overseas customer service reps actually just not understanding those complaints: Microsoft
- Best name of departing executive: Yahoo, “Jeff Weiner“
- Best headline never run about that executive: “Weiner Withdraws Early”
- Runner-up: “Weiner’s Departure Leaves Behind Mess”
- Second runner-up: “Weiner’s Exit Leaked”
13 gigabytes / second…they need money to run their web hosting
The total downloads of Firefox 3 (in that day) amounted to 8,002,530. Firefox is amazing. I don’t understand how it is’nt more popular.
Wow thanks for these world records. Firefox is the no.1 software in the world.