World’s Fastest Clapper, Meet World’s Fastest Firefox
Note: I just announced the launch of our Fastest Firefox community marketing project over at the Mozilla Blog. Here’s a crossposted and slightly expanded version:
Firefox 3.5 will be here soon, and it’s shaping up to be by far the fastest Firefox yet: more than twice as fast as Firefox 3 and 10 times as fast as Firefox 2.
That’s a fact worth celebrating, and to spread the word we’ve reached out to some of our fellow Guinness World Record holders, each of whom knows a few things about speed. Our first record holder is Kent “Toast” French, whose ability to clap his hands 721 times in a minute (averaging 12x/second!) officially earns him the title of the world’s fastest clapper. Along with his son Joshua, Kent put on a truly astounding display of in honor of Firefox 3.5:
We know that Kent isn’t the only person in the global Mozilla community with a talent for speed, so if you want to help tell the world about Firefox 3.5 here’s what to do:
1. Make a short (30 seconds, max) video of you doing your speediest skill. It doesn’t matter if it’s making a sandwich, changing a tire or mowing your lawn…it just has to be fast.
2. Visit www.fastestfirefox.com and follow the easy instructions on how to upload your video to us.
3. We’ll be editing the best submissions into a compilation video that really shows off what our community is capable of, so check back about a week after the 3.5 release. If we use your clip, you’ll get a Firefox 3.5 t-shirt plus, of course, worldwide fame and the satisfaction of helping the open web.
In addition to Kent and the other record holders (more on them soon), this project came together because of the effort and talents of the very worthy people listed below. Big thanks to:
* Elise Allen
* Catherine Brady
* Alex Buchanan
* Fran Capo
* Pascal Chevrel and our truly amazing team of localizers
* Delicious Design League and The Royal Order
* Stephen Donner
* Alix Franquet
* Steven Garrity
* Mike Gauthier
* Paul Kim
* Nicole Loux
* Nobox
* Jeremy Orem
* Krupa Raj
* Tara Shahian
* Melissa Shapiro
Can’t wait to see your speedy videos!
June 1st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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June 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 am
It would be interesting to know in what way exactly Firefox 3.5 is twice as fast as 3.0 and ten times faster than 2.0 …
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:38 am
We’ve done a lot of performance tests, but the data I’m referring to came from a SunSpider test on an XP machine. Stay tuned for much, much more detail on this topic.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 am
Great video! I Love it!
Great team effort too. I can’t wait to see more.
But I’ll have to now won’t I.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Hi John.
I run an open, participatory site for world records called the Universal Record Database.
If the speedy feats people submit are quantifiable and breakable, we’d love to feature them as challengeable records on our site. Shoot me an email and we’ll find a way to make it happen.
Congrats on the pending launch,
Dan Rollman
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:29 pm
What is it with the current browsers and their fascination with speed?
Fad I know, but really…
I open a page (on any browser an any website) and bang it’s there – Instantly.
Sorry, I really don’t care if FF is faster than “instantly” and %99.999999 of the population don’t care either.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 am
Bob – on a slower machine, say … mine, speed does count. Making Firefox faster is reducing the bloat and making Firefox run better on older systems. Huge win.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:46 am
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June 8th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
[...] As I wrote last week, the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release will be significantly faster than any previous version of Firefox. To spread the word about this achievement, we’re asking members of worldwide Mozilla community to share videos of their own speedy feats. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
[...] As I wrote last week, the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release will be significantly faster than any previous version of Firefox. To spread the word about this achievement, we’re asking members of worldwide Mozilla community to share videos of their own speedy feats. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
[...] As I wrote last week, the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release will be significantly faster than any previous version of Firefox. To spread the word about this achievement, we’re asking members of worldwide Mozilla community to share videos of their own speedy feats. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
[...] Firefox, Part 2: More Speediness Monday, June 8, 2009 By Maximillion As I wrote last week, the upcoming Firefox 3.5 release will be significantly faster than any previous version of [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
[...] received some very speedy videos from members of the global Mozilla community (not to mention the world’s fastest clapper and the world’s fastest sport [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
[...] be releasing the latest in our series of Fastest Firefox videos. Check out the already-posted World’s Fastest clapper and World’s Fastest sport stacker [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
[...] with some truly incredible Guinness World Record holders. Earlier we shared videos from the world’s fastest clapper and the world’s fastest sport stacker, and our latest in that series comes from Todd Taylor, [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
[...] with some truly incredible Guinness World Record holders. Earlier we shared videos from the world’s fastest clapper and the world’s fastest sport stacker, and our latest in that series comes from Todd Taylor, [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Not to put too fine a point on it, but why does FF say “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.”
That’s a rhetorical question. I know why. Thanks for playing.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 am
[...] with some truly incredible Guinness World Record holders. Earlier we shared videos from the world’s fastest clapper and the world’s fastest sport stacker, and our latest in that series comes from Todd Taylor, [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
[...] together a compilation of our favorites. As an added bonus (and a follow-up to our videos from the world’s fastest clapper, sport stacker and banjo player) it features an introduction from Fran Capo, the world’s [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
[...] together a compilation of our favorites. As an added bonus (and a follow-up to our videos from the world’s fastest clapper, sport stacker and banjo player) it features an introduction from Fran Capo, the world’s [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
[...] together a compilation of our favorites. As an added bonus (and a follow-up to our videos from the world’s fastest clapper, sport stacker and banjo player) it features an introduction from Fran Capo, the world’s [...]
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 am
[...] together a compilation of our favorites. As an added bonus (and a follow-up to our videos from the world’s fastest clapper, sport stacker and banjo player) it features an introduction from Fran Capo, the world’s [...]
July 29th, 2009 at 2:28 am
[...] Videos eingegangen wo Fans ihr schnellstes Talent zeigen unter anderem ist da der Weltschnellste Händeklatscher, Becherstapler(sport stacker) und Banjo Spieler. Mozilla hatte schon immer gute Ideen Firefox zu [...]