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Internet Explorer team sends Mozilla boys a cake

Yesterday marked the launch of Mozilla’s Firefox 3 and its attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a day. The downloads are still being counted until 11:16am PDT today, so you may still be able to help make a world record.

So far the Mozilla website shows that Firefox 3 has been downloaded 8,174,911 times worldwide with over 2.5 million of those downloads coming from the U.S. alone.  The Internet Explorer team from Microsoft, feeling in a giving mood, sent the Firefox team a cake -- seriously.

The cake sported the Internet Explorer “E” symbol and read “Congratulations on Shipping! Love, The IE Team.” Arcanology notes that the cake has become a tradition and the Internet Explorer team sent over a similar cake when Firefox 2 shipped.

Arcanology also says that the “E” from the original cake was frozen and still sits in the refrigerator at Mozilla central to this day and it was pulled out and compared to the new cake.

I suspect the original “E” was saved as evidence in case any of the Firefox team met with an untimely demise or developed a severe case of pink eye. Those of you who have seen Knocked Up know what I am getting at.

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Interesting
By JasonMick (blog) on 6/18/2008 3:18:14 PM , Rating: 5
I hear for Firefox 4, they aren't planning to use poison, but they are instead planning on having Steve Ballmer jump out of the cake.

The way the IE team figures it, if any of the Mozilla team members have heart conditions, that will be a quick way to cull their numbers.

Watch out Mozilla team!




RE: Interesting
By kattanna on 6/18/2008 3:38:22 PM , Rating: 3
quote:
planning on having Steve Ballmer jump out of the cake


while seeing that would make me lose my lunch, it would still be damn funny.


RE: Interesting
By xphile on 7/3/2008 9:59:38 PM , Rating: 2
Except that what would actually happen is this:

Balmer jumps out of the cake; proceeds to frantically eat the entire cake himself; pulls out an invoice charging the Mozilla team for the cake; slams it on the table, then runs off down the corridor screaming hysterically at 125 DB ...


RE: Interesting
By amanojaku on 6/18/2008 4:09:23 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
I hear for Firefox 4, they aren't planning to use poison, but they are instead planning on having Steve Ballmer jump out of the cake.


I thought the CAKE looked nasty, but Ballmer? I think I just threw up in my mouth.


RE: Interesting
By chmilz on 6/18/2008 10:14:15 PM , Rating: 4
Beware a warm, creamy filling, Mozilla. Anyone who remembers Van Wilder knows what I mean. Not all pastries are as innocent as they seem.


RE: Interesting
By rupaniii on 6/23/2008 8:28:03 PM , Rating: 1
Web Browsers, Web Browsers, Web Browsers, Web Browsers, Web Browsers, Web Browsers ...


RE: Interesting
By just4U on 6/24/2008 5:11:27 AM , Rating: 3
I think it's nice of the IE team to do that.


latest numbers
By Screwballl on 6/18/2008 10:13:51 PM , Rating: 2
last check, they haven't moved much since lunch time... numbers are rounded, not exact since they are changing slightly.

Total Downloads 9,739,109

US: 3.05 million
Germany: 808,000
Japan: 452,000
Canada: 274,000
Brazil: 223,000
China: 188,000
Russia: 117,000
Australia: 150,000
Iran: 262,000
Most of Europe is 30-300,000 except Germany as shown above.

I would hope they show a rundown of download per country and if possible language.




RE: latest numbers
By smitty3268 on 6/19/2008 12:33:11 AM , Rating: 2
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

has an interactive map that shows how many downloads per country.


RE: latest numbers
By cory107 on 6/21/2008 2:12:10 AM , Rating: 2
Ummmm not that I'm too religious but when i scrolled over Iraq's dl's it read: 666. I laughed a little bit inside


RE: latest numbers
By DeepBlue1975 on 6/24/2008 12:05:29 PM , Rating: 2
Not working here, every country reads 0.

PS: I'm using firefox 3 :(


RE: latest numbers
By zebrax2 on 6/19/2008 6:34:31 AM , Rating: 2
install noscript then don't allow spreadfirefox.com. instead of the interactive map you'll have a list of countries and number of pledges on them


RE: latest numbers
By Screwballl on 6/19/2008 12:56:49 PM , Rating: 2
yeah but that entails work and the map is a bit better /laugh/


RE: latest numbers
By hadifa on 6/22/2008 9:15:43 PM , Rating: 2
Had a quick look and I noticed Firefox is very popular in Australia and Iran relative to their population.

Iran > 496,000 pop > 70,000,000

Australia > 265,000 pop > 20,000,000

compared to most countries, these are very high.


In other news
By FITCamaro on 6/19/2008 3:04:05 PM , Rating: 3
The entire Mozilla team failed to come into work today reporting massive cases of diarrhea.




RE: In other news
By Skyguy on 6/19/2008 6:58:29 PM , Rating: 3
The cake is a lie.

;)


win98=Opera
By perzy on 6/24/2008 3:58:27 PM , Rating: 2
Why Opera? I tell you why: I sit on an old laptop , mem upgrade real expensive and hard...= 128 mb=win98=opera. Mozilla does NOT run under win98.
But i found that opera is really good, and i really like that it starts exacly, even on the page, where you left of!




RE: win98=Opera
By murphyslabrat on 7/4/2008 2:28:59 AM , Rating: 2
Mozilla 2 does run on Win98...Just putting it out there.


firefox3 + GREECE
By kailor on 6/28/2008 5:33:07 AM , Rating: 2
i also use firefox 3....

i am from Greece and i am proud that Greece hit 115,887 downloads.




No Opera 9.5 cake?
By shadowofthesun on 6/18/08, Rating: -1
RE: No Opera 9.5 cake?
By smitty3268 on 6/18/2008 4:53:40 PM , Rating: 5
Let's be fair, they can't send out a cake to every single browser team out there - they'd be sending out a new one every single day if they counted all those browsers that no one has ever heard of. The reason FF gets one and Opera doesn't, is that one has less than 1% market share and the other has over 20%.

Don't crucify me, I think Opera is a fine browser, but they have to draw a line somewhere.


RE: No Opera 9.5 cake?
By Reclaimer77 on 6/18/2008 5:06:16 PM , Rating: 1
Why use Opera ? Just... why ?

Yeah yeah I know, your " classy and different " than the rest of us...