Firefox 3 record download attempt hampered by server overload

[rpm]

The Firefox 3 record download attempt is hampered by server overload. Nearly one and a half hours into the 24 hour download period the server is unreachable for most who want to contribute to setting a new record.

Firefox 3 record download attempt hampered by server overload

 

[squirrel]

All that for nothing..

 

[Pooky]

It will ease up, come on!

 

[PostmanPot]

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/.

 

[Telkomisaloser]

Firefox 3 downloaded and installed

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

shades of Microsoft's failings eh.

 

[Lydon]

It's eased up already...I've never seen anything quite like it. 5 minutes ago SA was on 4 800 downloads, now I refreshed that page and we're on 7 036. The total downloads have climbed by about 1 million in an hour :S

 

[Pooky]

Where do you go to see that?

 

[PostmanPot]

Where do you go to see that?

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord.

 

[kilianh]

Come on guys, keep downloading, we wanna get at least that yellow colour...

 

[Highflyer_GP]

The download button on the page redirects to version 2.0.0.14. Kinda retarded, rather get it from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/

 

[gregmcc]

amazing how fast its climbing - its like watching the infection rate of a virus

Mine redirects to 3 - they just haven't changed the test on the page - it still says FF2

 

[Tux]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008060309 Firefox/3.0

Ubuntu users should check their available updates

 

[Tux]

110 downloads in Zimbabwe

Are there even 110 people that can afford it to get on the net in Zim?

 

[gregmcc]

Zim's internet is probably faster and still cheaper than ours!

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

It's eased up already...I've never seen anything quite like it. 5 minutes ago SA was on 4 800 downloads, now I refreshed that page and we're on 7 036. The total downloads have climbed by about 1 million in an hour :S

And now they've restarted? We're back on 2300.

Does everyone else see this? We were on 5000 last time I checked, but I think they reset everybody.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

The download button on the page redirects to version 2.0.0.14. Kinda retarded, rather get it from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/

It redirects fine, there were/are problems with the site going down in the beginning.

 

[milomak]

What's the target in any event?

DIT: 5mio it seems

 

[Cadavre777]

The method used to count downloads was a failure from the start. They should have convinced mirrors to count for them aswell.

 

[PostmanPot]

Now it's reporting ~2700 downloads from SA?