Firefox 3, overloaded servers and a world record attempt
June 18th, 2008 13
Firefox 3 is out! And today the popular Spread Firefox site has set a challenge to break the world record for the most downloads in one day. And so far they’ve smashed all their expectations, 5.7 Million downloads, and they still have just under an hour left (if I’ve converted from PDT to BST correctly). I can’t help feeling though that this may have been a little marred by the strain on the Mozilla servers.
Several times this morning I’ve tried to download only to be greeted with a nicely styled “Technical Difficulties” page or, even worse, a HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable page. Not a great help to the cause. But still, they’ve certainly smashed the 1.2 Million that Firefox 2 achieved on it’s first day.
And, yes, Mozilla’s claims that Firefox is far better than Safari may not be entirely convincing but I LOVE this new version. Having used the beta and RC’s for a month or so (combined with the web developer & Firebug add-ons) Firefox is my browser of choice, and I don’t really see that changing in the near future.
My only wish is that someone would conceive of a way for me to test sites in IE6 and above without having to switch to Parallels.
13 Comments (+0 in the moderation queue).
#1 On June 19th, 2008 at 1:29 pm Kris said...
I’m more of a netscape navigator man myself…….
#2 On June 19th, 2008 at 9:06 pm Jon Roobottom said...
Que Paul… (hehe)
#3 On June 30th, 2008 at 3:30 am Paul Lloyd said...
Eh?
#4 On June 30th, 2008 at 3:30 am Paul Lloyd said...
Oh and it’s ‘cue’ not ‘que’. So much for being Mr. Copywriter…
#5 On June 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am Kris said...
Always negative, always picking faults, always the same…….
*Yawn*
#6 On June 30th, 2008 at 1:31 pm Paul Lloyd said...
An ellipsis has only three dots Kris…
#7 On June 30th, 2008 at 1:37 pm Kris said...
How have you managed to comment on this post? I thought you were busy in the Big Brother house calling yourself ‘Luke’.
#8 On June 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm Paul Lloyd said...
I assume you are trying to upset me by comparing me to what I can only imagine is one of the many idiotic characters on that God awful excuse for a television programme, but as you know, I rather hang myself than watch that trash, so have no idea what you are talking about – and that pleases me greatly.
#9 On June 30th, 2008 at 2:46 pm Kris said...
I think that should read “I would rather hang myself”.
You need to watch your grammar there mate, especially if you’re going to pick faults with everyone else’s.
http://krisweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/seperated-at-birth.html
#10 On June 30th, 2008 at 3:14 pm Paul Lloyd said...
I assume you are trying to upset me by comparing me to what I can only imagine is one of the many idiotic characters on that God awful excuse for a television programme, but as you know, I’d rather w**k myself to near death looking at screen caps of it on the internet than watch that trash, so have no idea what you are talking about – and that pleases me greatly.
#11 On June 30th, 2008 at 3:25 pm Kris said...
The above wasn’t me by the way!!!
I think we’ve hijacked Roo’s post enough now.
#12 On June 30th, 2008 at 4:37 pm Paul Lloyd said...
So, er, Firefox 3…
#13 On July 7th, 2008 at 12:32 pm darthlawb said...
Yeah - Firefox 3! Downloaded it, Installed it and running it. New toolbar, website title appears when your typing in the URL yada yada yada. Show me what it can do when its pointing at new fangly spangly web 2.0 site - anything Firefox 2 could not??