RyanJ Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Has anyone else been following the Firefox Guinness World Record Attempt? I'm gonna put my name down just for the sake of it - plus if it goes through there would be an entry in the world record book that I actually contributed too Anyone else interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 i'm pledged, also using FF3 just now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanJ Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 Me too. Have been using it for months - nightly builds get you the newest features but also the newest bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 i'm still on beta 5. 1/ its in the ubuntu hardy repos, 2/ it hasn't crashed on me yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanJ Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 The RCs are pretty stable and the beta's were pretty stable once they fixed the jemalloc top crasher a couple of weeks back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 I already have FF3... no need to download it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanJ Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 I think the point is just to download it and get a +1 for the record, a lot of people will probably update automatically and download the actual file just to add some points. As this has never been done before it's a guaranteed record anyway (apparently) :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 well you'll need to download it again to get the final version. might as well do it that day. though i think the servers will generally be maxed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanJ Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 I wonder if they can actually handle all that server stress. They've had problems in the past where the upgrade systems have failed under the load but hopefully they've corrected that... otherwise the servers could go down and that would sort of spoil the record attempt eh? *shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antimatter Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 The graphic they have is pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 I wonder if they can actually handle all that server stress. They've had problems in the past where the upgrade systems have failed under the load but hopefully they've corrected that... otherwise the servers could go down and that would sort of spoil the record attempt eh? *shrugs* I believe they're trying to implement some geographically-based routing to local mirrors so you'll be downloading from a server near you, along with monitoring to send people only to servers that work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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