Fire Fox download day 2008 - set a world record!

[Mr.Sam]

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.
By the way, the official date for the launch of Firefox 3 will be posted here soon - so check back! Join our community and this effort by pledging today.




http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

[Stephen!]

repost

[Mr.Sam]

thread url...?
repost

[Stephen!]

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=488582

[iJoe]

when is this download day, would be more helpful to post that :p

[Stephen!]

There isn't a date set at the moment. But if you signed up you will get an e-mail like 24 hours before it's set to be released or something

[iJoe]

oh right, thanks for that :P

[Independent]

Do we have to install it too, and I'm using the BETA one so I'd rather not downgrade.

[Recursion]

Don't need to download.

How is using the BETA and then using the final release a downgrade? :|

[Independent]

Don't need to download.

How is using the BETA and then using the final release a downgrade? :|
I never knew this was the release of the BETA, might as well give it a re-install because it's mucking around anyways.

[Fart]

What is the old record?
good idea by them though.

[Wootzeh]

What is the old record?
good idea by them though.
There isn't a current record, they're setting one.

[Verrou]

If you read the page, it says that you will be emailed the download day once they decide.

[GommeInc]

I still sit with the idea that Mac and Windows updates are classed as downloads and will completely destroy this record, but seems like a good idea :P

[Stephen!]

Lol yeah.. But i don't really think it's classed as a record until Microsoft or Apple actually publish some download numbers

[Finkelstien]

Interesting.

Will help out :).

[mangle]

Is it just the Beta or the full thing we download?

And if it's the full thing and anyone has been Beta testing, is it any good?

[Independent]

Is it just the Beta or the full thing we download?

And if it's the full thing and anyone has been Beta testing, is it any good?
No, I think it's being released on "download day" properly, and coming out of BETA status.

[Agnostic Bear]

It's not in beta any more, it's going through the release candidates before it's released, should be soon.

[Independent]

It's not in beta any more, it's going through the release candidates before it's released, should be soon.
oh right

[Mr.Sam]

Official times for download beginning are:

Tues 10 AM Pacific side of US
Tues 1 PM EST Atlantic side of US
Tues 6 PM GMT Great Britain
Wed 1 AM China
Wed 5 AM New Zealand

See here (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=17&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&sort=1) for all else in-between.

[Hitman]

Official times for download beginning are:

Tues 10 AM Pacific side of US
Tues 1 PM EST Atlantic side of US
Tues 6 PM GMT Great Britain
Wed 1 AM China
Wed 5 AM New Zealand

See here (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=17&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&sort=1) for all else in-between.
Thanks for the info, I wondered why it wasn't available yet! :P

[Agnostic Bear]

http://www.justupload.net/uploads/51061708hmm.png

Hmmm :P

[Aces]

Official times for download beginning are:

Tues 10 AM Pacific side of US
Tues 1 PM EST Atlantic side of US
Tues 6 PM GMT Great Britain
Wed 1 AM China
Wed 5 AM New Zealand

See here (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=17&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&sort=1) for all else in-between.
Thanks for that! + rep

[mangle]

Can i still download it today!?

[Mr.Sam]

at 6pm gmt yeah
Can i still download it today!?

[mangle]

Do I have to sign up?
Cos I still haven't done that

[Stephen!]

No, but you should.

[Recursion]

2 hours to go! :)

[Wootzeh]

websites are dead.

[Plank]

yeah the website won't load for me either

[Jordy]

It's 6pm? Who will be first to download on HabboxForum? Screenshots please!

No emails as of yet... Making final use of the 'Reload page every 5 seconds' add-on for FF 2.0 :(

[Recursion]

People cheated and got the official one off unofficial sources and so their downloads won't be counted :(

[Pyroka]

I just got onto mozilla.org but like that helps. :P

[Chickenblob]

It appears the website is down, they might not get all the downloads they need if nobody can get onto it.

[Wootzeh]

It appears the website is down, they might not get all the downloads they need if nobody can get onto it.
It won't be down all day...

[Recursion]

It's down as too many people are on it, people will still be getting on it though.

[Pyroka]

It'll be in 24 hours then Chickenblob, from 6PM GMT 17th to 6PM GMT 18th June. ;)

I'm waiting for my superlovely LAN connection to get through. I was checking on this ALL DAY today at college, if only I'd stayed till 6... Your efforts would be futile. :P

[Jordy]

It appears the website is down, they might not get all the downloads they need if nobody can get onto it.They have 24 hours don't worry. I assume this is one of the busiest web pages ever if you have millions rushing onto it at the same time, and they've got to send out millions of emails too so it doesn't surprise me it's down.

[Recursion]

about 1.5Million pledges I think?

[Pyroka]

No Jordy, youre wrong. The busiest website ever is when Habbo uses alerts.

No seriously.

[Jordy]

about 1.5Million pledges I think?Not bad, they where hoping for a little more but happy with anything, not many other downloads are capable of such a thing so it should be a strong record. iTunes would probably be a serious contender for the record. Must be around a 5 figure number on the site, maybe even a 6 figure number...

[Recursion]

"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" lmao..

[Pyroka]

I just loaded up the Mozilla.com page, you guys will hate this:

Show screenie in amin.

[Recursion]

Waiting for teh screenie.

[Wootzeh]

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/
only gives link to firefox 2 *** -.-

[Recursion]

They probably can't update it if their server is being hammered to hell.

[Pyroka]

Hmm, I just got hit by irony. Imageshack just did an error 500 LOL.

http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5e4f1b3bb7.jpghttp://img2.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?5e4f1b3bb7.jpg

:'(

[Axel]

Damn Americans hogging Firefox 3.

[Recursion]

Damn spicks.

JOKING.

[Leetzgirl]

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox

[Recursion]

That doesn't count towards the download record...

[Pyroka]

Its the fact they aint released it yet. :(

[Recursion]

They have its just, they didn't prepare their servers. :/

[Pyroka]

They aint, it's not on the screenie and I'm looking at the page right now. It's not released yet.

[Chickenblob]

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/
only gives link to firefox 2 *** -.-

I'd waited ages for that page to load up and got that aswell :(

[Dentafrice]

Damn Americans hogging Firefox 3.
Thats stupid.. I could say the same about you.



They aint, it's not on the screenie and I'm looking at the page right now. It's not released yet.

It isn't on that page :\

[edgates]

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox

Found that and downloaded it :) Installing now.

[Pyroka]

Theyve changed the webpage which is good news, but on the other hand the link hasnt been updated. They're obviously in the transitional stages. Haha now it's loading superfast.

[Axel]

Thats stupid.. I could say the same about you.

Go ahead...

[Recursion]

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox

Found that and downloaded it :) Installing now.

Yet again, the whole point getting it direct from Mozilla is to help break a world record :|

Still no load for me.

[Axel]

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox

Found that and downloaded it :) Installing now.

As someone said, that doesn't count to the download record, and I'd rather get it from the main site.

[kk.]

well tb h, i dont want them to set a world record.
people say they hate microsoft because they brainwash you or something and it just seems that mozilla are thinking about themselves. Its a publicity stunt.

[Dentafrice]

Yet again, the whole point getting it direct from Mozilla is to help break a world record :|

Still no load for me.
Thats FF3 RC3.

[Pyroka]

well tb h, i dont want them to set a world record.
people say they hate microsoft because they brainwash you or something and it just seems that mozilla are thinking about themselves. Its a publicity stunt.

IT'S A PUBLICITY STUNT?

WHOA, BREAKING NEWS: MOZILLA FIREFOX ARE PROMOTING THEIR PRODUCT THROUGH A PUBLICITY STUNT.

You cant call them criminals for great advertising, and Mozilla doesn't overprice anything, their software is free and opensource so how the hell can you compare them to Microsoft. Of course theyre thinking about themselves, but at the same time they're letting the users decide whether they want to do it or not. If you don't wanna then dont, bloody hell.

[kk.]

yeh trust me it is. It would be in the guiness world records and so anyone who comes across it will see the name MOZILLA FIREFOX. Its not great advertising. Should IE have done the same thing, you would all be kicking up a fuss.

anyway is this it? http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0rc3&os=win&lang=en-GB

IE is free lol. Just because you see microsfot with programs which sell doesnt mean that they are wrong. Its just natural for them to auto install IE on windows computers because its called competition

EDIT: nm it wasnt

[Wootzeh]

yeh trust me it is..

anyway is this it? http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0rc3&os=win&lang=en-GB
I dnno, I'm using that now and can't tell any difference between it and RC3. Edit ; I used same link as person below me.

[Dentafrice]

No, that is RC3.

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-GB

[Leetzgirl]

my page is slowing loading >_>

[Recursion]

It'd be better if all our FF2s auto updated.

[Dentafrice]

Yeah, I agree :P

[Leetzgirl]

Main page still got firefox 2 >_>

[Dentafrice]

It is going to have it on there, they aren't going to update that page yet, it should be on the SpreadFirefox site first.

I shared the DL link, from Mozilla.

[Hitman]

Not loading at all for me, at first I thought it was Opera being anti-firefox, but I tried in FF2 and no luck... I'm going to wait and download from the main site than from the uploaded one. ;)

Strike that, managed to connect with the link Dentafrice provided - thanks!

[Recursion]

There is an official Mozilla link in the thread Hitman ;)

[Wootzeh]

There is an official Mozilla link in the thread Hitman ;)
are we sure it's the real version though? :S

[Recursion]

Yes :P

[Mr.Sam]

if you want to ge tthe back button smaller, right click it's row > customise > tick use small icons

[Dentafrice]

are we sure it's the real version though? :S
Yep, if you check my thread, it shows screenshots of the version.

[Jordy]

No, that is RC3.

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-GBWhy the hell is the welcome page 'Welcome to Firefox 3 (Release Candidate 3)' - It's not funny to mislead people to download things...

[Wootzeh]

I just got my E-mail.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox?p=downloadday

[Dentafrice]

Why the hell is the welcome page 'Welcome to Firefox 3 (Release Candidate 3)' - It's not funny to mislead people to download things...
I'm not misleading anyone, if you check the URL, they haven't updated the new welcome page.

It is infact Version 3.0 as the RC[1,3] is gone from the title, and the version displays as Version 3.0 now.

http://www.tehupload.com/images/app-24274460124854894640.png

Its not funny to accuse people.. ;)

[Wootzeh]

It said exactly the same on RC3, see : http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=488582

And the link I got e-mailed doesn't even work :S

[Hitman]

Well, downloaded and installed anyway, but I'm sticking with Opera, it's much faster for me. :P

[Jordy]

I'm not misleading anyone, if you check the URL, they haven't updated the new welcome page.

It is infact Version 3.0 as the RC[1,3] is gone from the title, and the version displays as Version 3.0 now.

http://www.tehupload.com/images/app-24274460124854894640.png

Its not funny to accuse people.. ;)I do apologise, you are right. Thanks for the link.

[Dentafrice]

It said exactly the same on RC3, see : http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=488582

And the link I got e-mailed doesn't even work :S

Same, I was about to wonder why you posted that link.

@Above: Yeah, but in RC3 on the title bar when first starting up it states: RC3, this doesn't.



I do apologize, you are right.

Thanks :)

[Wootzeh]

Meh, I'm giving up until it's on the main page.

[DaveTaylor]

LOL the email link they sent goes to V2 good job :|

[mangle]

I didn't even get alink!

[Jordy]

We're sorry, but your Google Mail account is currently experiencing errors. You won't be able to use your account while these errors last, but don't worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue. Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.I suspect that Gmail has just been over-loaded with emails and presumably it would of crashed if that wasn't put in place. Could be a coincidence but I imagine around 400k-800k emails within an hour is a little exhausting on the servers :P

[Mr.Sam]

i restarted firefox after using the link provided and it asked me to upgrade, a new version is up now.

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

[Plank]

does google toolbar work now?

[Recursion]

Google Toolbar always worked?

[Plank]

oh did it when i tried to download it before it said incompatible. must have been my pc.

works now tho i just downloaded it

[Dentafrice]

i restarted firefox after using the link provided and it asked me to upgrade, a new version is up now.

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
It seems to be the same as the link I provided :S

[Mr.Sam]

Not sure then, after I downloaded the link your posted and restarted it said my version was out of date and suggested I updated
It seems to be the same as the link I provided :S

[Dentafrice]

Happen to see any changes? I downloaded the new version, don't see much :P

[Mr.Sam]

not that I can see, might have been to get us to download via the site so the download counted?
Happen to see any changes? I downloaded the new version, don't see much :P

[Dentafrice]

Oh, probably :)

[--ss--]

Anyone know if upgrading will cause an loss of bookmarks, history, cookies and saved passwords?

[Dentafrice]

It didn't for me.. even saved my bookmarks on the tab.

[Leetzgirl]

nopeee lol

[Plank]

Back up your bookmarks just in case.

[Mr.Sam]

Mines fine
Anyone know if upgrading will cause an loss of bookmarks, history, cookies and saved passwords?

[N!ck]

Woah, Mozilla's website is slow :8. Must be very popular.

[Dentafrice]

It died earlier :P

[Recursion]

Everything, history, passwords etc etc etc... were transfered automatically.

[Ezzie.]

About the bookmarks, if you used the beta, for me it reverted to the bookmarks i used in the firefox beta

So i assume aslong as you didnt use beta, they'll transfer fine

[Agnostic Bear]

Wahey looks like I've had Firefox 3 since 11am.

[Shawnstra]

Weird thing is few days ago before I even downloaded 3.0, it already says "Mozilla Firefox 3.0" when I go to help>about mozilla firefox. Maybe its the beta...

[blanky12!]

downloaded mine :)

[Axel]

Yay finally got it.