Firefox’s Download Day 2008: Help Set a Guinness World Record!
The people at Mozilla have come up with a neat idea for Firefox 3: they’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most-downloaded program in a twenty-four hour period, on an as-yet-undecided day next month. To see a breakdown (by country) of how many people have pledged to do, or to pledge to do it yourself, just go to the page linked above.
Frankly, I think it’s little more than publicity stunt. I don’t think they’ll have any trouble setting such a record, since I highly doubt there’s any competition for it at this point. But publicity stunts aren’t always a bad thing, and spreading the use of Firefox (specifically for the NoScript extension, but also because it’s pretty much the best browser available) is a very good cause.