Firefox Guinness World Record Attempt

[RyanJ]

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?

[insane_alien]

i'm pledged, also using FF3 just now.

[RyanJ]

Me too. Have been using it for months - nightly builds get you the newest features but also the newest bugs

[insane_alien]

i'm still on beta 5. 1/ its in the ubuntu hardy repos, 2/ it hasn't crashed on me yet.

[RyanJ]

The RCs are pretty stable and the beta's were pretty stable once they fixed the jemalloc top crasher a couple of weeks back.

[ecoli]

I already have FF3... no need to download it again.

[RyanJ]

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) :|

[insane_alien]

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.

[RyanJ]

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*

[antimatter]

The graphic they have is pretty cool.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

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.