Bashing in Minds » guinness http://bashinginminds.com Geekstuff, for the discriminating geek Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:22:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=166 I set a Guiness World Record… with 8m other people http://bashinginminds.com/2008/07/03/i-set-a-guiness-world-record-with-8m-other-people/ http://bashinginminds.com/2008/07/03/i-set-a-guiness-world-record-with-8m-other-people/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:04:11 +0000 cabridges http://cabridges.com/?p=368 Firefox announced today that their bid to secure a Guinness World Record for most downloaded software was a success.

Mozilla today announced it set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The record-setting 8,002,530 downloads coincided with the launch of Firefox® 3, Mozilla’s major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser.

I fully expect all of us to be named and credited, making the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records the largest book ever offered for commercial sale. Which would be another record, so they'd have to amend it and release it again. And that edition would then break the previous record…

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