With the much anticipated release of Firefox 3, Mozilla also wants to set a Guiness Record of the “most downloaded software in 24 hours”. I think that is put just plain stupidly, but nevertheless, if you’re a Firefox fan, why not? You can visit the Spread Firefox site and offer your pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day of its release.
The actual date will be posted on the site itself soon, so you can schedule it to make sure you make good on your pledge. The site features a cool map which shows pledges according to country, I am proud to say my country, Hungary is the best in its region, central Europe, it is doing especially well regarding population. Yay!
If you have a blog or a website they have some cool banners and other ideas to promote the event, and since Firefox has done so much for the web, I at least urge everyone to help out. This is the first actual attempt at this, so even with 1 download they will create a World Record, but they set out for 5 million, which is no small number. Firefox 2 was downloaded about 1.5 million times on its release date, so I think 5 million is a but pushing it, but definitely possible, go Mozilla!
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done, I’m ready
I pledge forever to Firefox!
Grimskallen, so do I!
I have had loads of Firefox 3 problems though, but I suspect these are plugin issues. I am confident they will fix stuff, they always listen to the users :)
Yeah :) Banner was already posted in my blog :)
It’s a little stupid, but anything that promotes an alternative browser to IE is worth it to me. I’ve pledged, and I will honour it, though I’ll start it in a different profile until I’m sure I like it.
I like the action from spreadfirefox. It is cool to have it in the GBoR. So I also joined :-P
Now I hope it will release fast, I can’t wait!
To be fair this is just a gimmick, everyone is going to update through update manager anyway
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I think that is put just plain stupidly
Like one VP said, there no such thing as bad publicity. Let they say all they want while they write our name properly. ;)