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Download Day: The perils of shooting for a world record
This probably shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, but if you encourage millions of users to download your software on the same day, your servers are going to take a hammering. But it appears that even Mozilla had no idea how many people would be trying to download Firefox 3 today.
There's a good chance that you may get through if you keep hitting refresh. And there's a good chance that the company will manage to break the world record if it ever gets the servers back up. But you know what? If you don't really care about setting a world record, Firefox 3 RC 3 is pretty much identical to Firefox 3 final. So if you're already running RC2 or RC3, there's no need to kill yourself trying to update your browser today. Tomorrow, next week, or even next month will probably be soon enough.
In the meantime, if you've got your heart set on downloading a next-generation browser, you can always take Opera 9.5 for a spin. That company's servers are holding up just fine.
Update: Some users are reporting success with these download links. Windows, Mac, Linux
Update 2: It looks like the site is back up, but incredibly slow. Like dialup slow.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsjayhawkJun 17th 2008 9:29PM
I'm a bit upset about this. Mozilla crews should have consider about the network traffic problem before setting the record thing.
PRC.Jun 17th 2008 2:07PM
LOL
jimmyJun 17th 2008 2:10PM
have they ever heard of mirrors? what a cluster f
Grant RobertsonJun 17th 2008 2:11PM
Oh Brad.. You might as well have said, "I'd like to take this opportunity to point, laugh, and recommend a real browser."
Remind me not to take ill immediately after a moment of hubiris; at least while you're around. :)
Brad LinderJun 17th 2008 2:12PM
Of course, the only reason Opera's servers are holding up is because there hasn't been a mad rush to download the program.
Ernie TedeschiJun 17th 2008 2:18PM
Oh, come on. This was planned all along. It's just another way to build buzz. "Ooooo! SO many people were trying to download FF3 that it crashed their servers!" I'm not even convinced the setup file is even on their servers yet. When I went to "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US", I ended up with RC3.
Just a digital version of planned shortages, if you ask me.
PrimitiveWallflowerJun 17th 2008 2:33PM
Horray! No longer RC3!
ToolJun 17th 2008 2:19PM
Here is the direct DL:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
or use this:
http://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/Mozilla//firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.exe
robotrockJun 17th 2008 2:42PM
FTP connections don't count towards the total...or so I've read.
mikeJun 17th 2008 2:19PM
finally got onto http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ and the link on there is directing me to firefox 2 lol
the shame!
also it says its been downloaded 578345066 times which is..? er
mikeJun 17th 2008 2:19PM
got onto the site http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
the download button is linking me to firefox 2... nice
oh and the pages says ff3 has been downloaded
578345066
times....
mikeJun 17th 2008 2:23PM
finially they changed the link, all is good now
JonasJun 17th 2008 2:27PM
download works great now
(no, it's no longer RC3 on the page)
frikoJun 17th 2008 2:42PM
Not working for Mac OS yet still linking to FF2
frikoJun 17th 2008 2:42PM
...and now is working!
mugczarJun 17th 2008 2:43PM
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10700/firefox
door0122Jun 17th 2008 2:30PM
so is an official from Guiness scanning their log files or something to verify the credibility of this record attempt? lol
robotrockJun 17th 2008 2:42PM
I switched language to English (British) and it came right up!
PaulJun 17th 2008 2:43PM
It's back to linking to firefox 2.0.0.14. 2:39 EST
PaulJun 17th 2008 2:45PM
2:42 EST
Fixed. Linking to 3.0