FireFox Download Day - June 17 2008 - 10:00am PDT

[Pat McCarthy]

T-minus 20 minutes to download day sequence commences!

[Joe G.]

Firefox website is crawling, why couldn't they have just hired Dave to encrypt it and taunt the world about the password?

[CarterM]

The place where I work at, Mercury Marine, still has IE from Windows 98 on a Windows XP...lol and Lotus Notes...It works well though when you want a basic explorer to test all of my coldfusion and etc on it...I will definitly download Firefox 3 on my home computer though!!!!

[MrForbes]

from mozilla.com "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

[IndySam]

This post done on Firefox 3.0

[MrForbes]

Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers

Mozilla hopes to successfully complete 5 million downloads of the Web browser in 24 hours and set a Guinness World Record.

By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
June 17, 2008 02:05 PM

Mozilla's record-breaking attempt to massively release Firefox 3.0, the latest version of the only Web browser to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, unfortunately broke some of its servers as well.

[tdlrali]

A little odd that they're trying to set a world record while its still in beta.

They aren't, FF3.0 was released today.

[vivek16]

Well, I somehow got through the traffic and downloaded. It is shiny!

-Vivek

[wilsonmw04]

This link worked for me. Works nicely so far

www.getfirefox.com

[MrForbes]

My son downloaded it and I installed it. Looks about the same...but then, it used all my preferences that I set long ago when I used mozilla 1

[Lil' Lavery]

So far the changes have been more of a nuisance than a help. I guess it'll grow on me as I get used to it, but I kinda regret deleting FF2.0.

[Branden Ghena]

I got it last night, after the rush had calmed down, but I didn't get to install it until just a minute ago. I kind of like it so far.

[acdcfan259]

Look at what ya did, ya got me using FF. I said I'd never use it.

I really do like it though. Hope i can say I was part of a world record.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

So far the changes have been more of a nuisance than a help. I guess it'll grow on me as I get used to it, but I kinda regret deleting FF2.0.

Mind qualifying the "nuisances," Lav? I've rather enjoying the version. It's a tad shiny, but very nice.

[Koko Ed]

Oh great. Now they tell us after we download the upgrade....