Tuesday an attempt is going to be made to establish a rather peculiar world record

[thewayne]

and you can participate, regardless of where you are in the world.

Mozilla is going to be releasing Firefox 3.0, and they're going to try to set a world record for the most bytes downloaded for a single program in a single day. Myself, I'll download it, but I'll probably wait a couple of weeks to install it to give them time to discover any really big showstopper bugs that might have escaped the beta process.

You can pledge at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/, I'm actually going to download it twice, maybe three times: my Mac laptop, my PC at work, and perhaps my Thinkpad.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Comments

[deborak]

What an awesome way for a hacker to spread a virus; stage some silly "most downloads evah" event.

[silveradept]

As someone who has had their beta installed on my machine without realizing it until far too late - it's decently stable, but it does have a crash tendency so far for me. So I'd say waiting on it is good.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

How on earth did you end up with a beta installed in your machine?!

[silveradept]

The maintainers of Ubuntu decided that Beta 5 (right before an RC) was stable enough to include as the production version in their latest system upgrade. I don't like that decision, but I didn't realize it until after I'd done the upgrade.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Huh. I'd call that a bad decision on their part, but that's their decision I guess.