Reminder: Today (June 17) Help Firefox 3 to Set Download Record
16 June, 2008 Posted by
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Mozilla is encouraging users to set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. The total number of unique downloads that take place on release day will be submitted for potential inclusion in the Guinness World Records. Over a million users have already signed up to pledge their support.
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Download starting tomorrowat 10am PST HERE! 
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Good luck if you can get into Mozilla.com or Getfirefox.com
All servers are flooded.
Reading the live chat here:
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9967131-2.html
This link is back and works at 11:50am PST:
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
For france the link is:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/firefox/ at 21:45 GMT+1
So what is the current record for software downloads in a 24 hr. period?
According to Paul Kim, head of marketing at Mozilla. “There is actually no record for the greatest amount of software downloaded in one day, so for 24 hours from the moment we push the bits live, that’s when the countdown starts,” he said.
Mr Kim said Mozilla had no specific target for the number of downloads it would like to achieve on the day but racking up five million would be “awesome”.
For the first hour after the server backed up online, they clocked 1 millions