Navtej Kohli on Firefox Download Record

Mozilla has officially made history with a new Guinness world record
for the largest number of software downloads in a 24-hour period. Navtej Kohli IT Blog features the latest updates:


The final record breaking 8,002,530 downloads for web browser Firefox 3.0 took place in June.

"The enthusiasm and creativity of Firefox fans was key to making this happen," said marketing head Paul Kim.

Gareth Deaves of Guinness World Records called it "an extremely impressive accomplishment".

The official figure was confirmed after logs from download servers were
audited and checked to ensure duplicate and unfinished downloads were
not counted.

Mr Kim told the BBC News: "The notion of going for a world record,
as... nutty as it may have sounded, was a really sticky idea.

"It was an idea that translated really well across national borders and to all different kinds of people around the world."

Marketing manager Mary Colvig said no party was planned to celebrate
the record until the actual certificate was presented by Guinness World
Records in London next week.

"Here at Mozilla headquarters (in Mountain View) I think most of us are
just going to try and get to bed early now that we have the
confirmation. We are all tired."


Another boost for the open source browser comes with the announcement
that it has increased its market share to more than 19% making it the
second most popular browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer

This entry was posted by Navtej Kohli on Sunday, July 6. 2008 at 23:57. and is filed under News in IT. The author does not allow comments to this entry

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