[ILUG] Mozilla attempting world record with Firefox 3 Release

[Patrick O'Doherty]

it does seem like a sure way to crash their servers on download day,  
unless they plan on relying heavily on bit torrent. I'll be  
interesting to see how it turns out on the day.

On 31 May 2008, at 11:53, Ian wrote:

> and even more bizarre is the fact that they don't tell us when the  
> download
> day is?
>
> Good planning
>
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
>
>> Patrick O'Doherty wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.tuaw.com/2008/05/30/help-firefox-set-a-guinness-world-record/
>>>
>>> They are trying to get people to pledge a download on their launch  
>>> day so
>>> they can enter the Guinness Book of World Records. An interesting  
>>> campaign
>>> for downloads eh?
>>>
>>> Opinions anyone?
>>>
>>
>> didn't they do that with Firefox 2 as well?
>>
>> my opinion is that it's silly. who cares how many times it was  
>> downloaded?
>>
>> Just advertise it virally as usual and save a bit of bandwidth.  
>> share it
>> with torrent.
>>
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