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.
So the question is what’s the govenrments role in all of this. Are they helping or hurting or just not even a player. I always try to look behind the scenes and see who’s pulling the strings.