17th June, 2008 – the day after tomorrow – is the official release date of Firefox 3 browser. The latest version of the popular open-source browser contains “more than 15,000 improvements” and is said to be “faster, safer and smarter than before”. The Mozilla corporation is publicizing the release date as “Download Day” where they will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record of most software downloads in 24 hours. Enthused people can go here and register a pledge saying that they will be downloading Firefox 3 on that day. As of now, there are more than 1,200,000 pledges with a little over 23,000 coming from India.
Even if half of the ‘pledged’ members download FF3 on that day, it still will be a record! Why? Coz the Guinness Book of Records doesn’t have a record for “most software downloads in 24 hours” or any similar record. Suffice to say, the record will be created come Monday.
Will I download it? Well, depends on how soon I get back from work and also on whether the Mozilla servers haven’t crashed by then 
Posted by Liju Philip on June 15, 2008 at 19:35
have downloaded the beta and tried. looks good. will wait for the final product. time to upgrade
Posted by Chittaranjan on June 17, 2008 at 00:37
I will try it first at the workplace…if anything goes kaput, the cleanup job ain’t mine
Posted by pabmohan on June 17, 2008 at 22:18
hahaha, The link to download is still not up, The time is 17:00 UTC i.e 10 am in LA, US, as the link is still not up yet, I will download it tomorrow.
Posted by Chittaranjan on June 17, 2008 at 22:27
I guess they’re beefing up the server spaces or putting last touches.
The Mirror sites all have “We’re not quite there yet” notices
Posted by joaquin on June 17, 2008 at 23:47
sounds like a good challenge, but I already have it.
Posted by Chittaranjan on June 17, 2008 at 23:53
@Joaquin: Good for you!
I got one from a mirror site but that doesn’t count as a ‘record’ so will go back and download it again when the servers become kinda free.
Posted by Mamu on September 3, 2008 at 07:08
Hey have u tried “Google Chrome”???
If not then visit
http://www.google.com/chrome
I m downloading it now.
Also tried IE8 Beta2. I tried IE8 Beta1 long back and it really sucks lik nething. So not yet tried Beta2. Will wait n c n thn download
.
Posted by Mamu on September 3, 2008 at 07:09
chk this too
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/