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Make Firefox a Guinness World Record!

As many of you may already know, tomorrow, June 17, Firefox 3 will be released to the general public.

But that’s not all: In an event called “Download Day” Mozilla is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. You can help set the record!

All you need to do is download Firefox 3 tomorrow within the first 24 hours of its release.

Need more info? Hop over to the Mozilla Blog or read the official Download Day FAQ.



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5 Responses to “Make Firefox a Guinness World Record!”

  1. 1
    rdomanski Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    Setting the Guinness world record may be the stated goal of all this activity, but in the end that’s only a novelty. The real show is the online mass mobilization that’s taking place.

    http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2008/06/firefox-to-break-world-downloading.html

  2. 2
    Mario Camara Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Hi,

    I downloaded FF3 but I have a doubt…
    Will my extensions (from version 2) work on FF3?
    If they won’t work, how will I know when they are “FF3-Ready”?
    Thanks for any help!

  3. 3
    Fred Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    Mario: That’s a very good question you’re asking! If you have any extensions that you’re worried about in particular, you can tell me them and I can tell you if they have a Firefox 3 version available, if you like.

    In general, you can just go to http://addons.mozilla.org and look them up yourself, and it’ll tell you there if the individual add-ons already support Firefox 3. Most major add-ons do support Firefox 3 by now, by the way.

  4. 4
    Mario Camara Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    Thanks for your help…
    This is the list of my extensions:

    Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
    Ai Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.9.6
    BatchDownload 1.1.9
    CacheViewer 0.4.7
    Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3
    DownThemAll! 1.0.3
    Fast Video Download 1.6
    FireFTP 0.97.3
    FlashGot 1.0.3
    Gmail Space 0.5.94
    MIME Edit 0.60
    Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6

    I consider these the BEST EXTENSIONS for FF and I would like to keep using them.
    That’s why I’d like to “look before you leap”… :)

    Mario

  5. 5
    Fred Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 4:28 am

    Okay the ones that don’t seem to have a Fx3 version (yet) seem to be: CacheViewer, Fast Video Download, MIME Edit, Tab Mix Plus. Though I don’t use it myself, I saw a Firefox 3 version of Tab Mix Plus linked here, but I don’t know how good it works.

    So if you can live without these extensions for a while, you should be golden.

    Anyway good luck with the update, I am sure you’ll like it! :)

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