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NewsDownload Day, Take 2 (Updated with final stats)

Posted 06/18/08 at 10:43:55 AM by Mark Edward Soper

Held Over version of Firefox Download Day logoCouldn't download Firefox yesterday? You still have time to help set the world record. Get clicking!

Thanks to the redefinition of "Day" as "a 24-hour period" - and thanks also to the problems everyone in the world had in logging onto the Spread Firefox website yesterday, Download Day continues, with close to 7,000,000 downloads as of posting time.

Originally, Download Day was scheduled to start at 10:00AM PDT yesterday, and end 24 hours later. However, if you read yesterday's installment of "how to bring a website to its knees", you know that things didn't work out exactly as planned.

 

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