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Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
Kolargol00 writes "An outage affected the Mozilla.com website on the day the organisation launched its Guinness World Record attempt for downloads of the new Firefox 3 browser. The mozilla.com site was unreachable from around the world, occasionally responding with the message, 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.'" Since they decided to run their day from 1pm to 1pm Eastern time, the download day is actually still going, so you can still get Firefox and be part of the record.
It isn't a stretch to think about it.
This is my opinion. Everyone has a right to my opinion.
It's easier to comply with the licensing terms of Icecat rather than Firefox.
I wonder if maybe someone at MS paid to have this done, sort of like throwing a wrench into someone's gears or maybe more like throwing a branch into some biker's spokes and watching the crash.
I do hope they try again, and this time have no power problems or server problems, I really like firefox and think it is the best browser of all!
This download record nonsense is so silly.
Produce a quality product and the masses will adopt.
Why behave like a TV infomercial or used car dealer?
Half the plugins I use are not firefox 3 ready so I am not downloading until the authors bother to test and update. Bumping or ignoring the plugin version is not always enough.
Lameness, http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=587553&cid=23837577
The reply you link to is clueless anti-'M$' paranoia.
The post you reply to is nothing of the sort, it is a joke and not lame.
Question: what the hell was your stupid post meant to prove, you mindless twerp?
I'll wait til the first service pack. Oh wait, that's going to be a new version which requires a complete reinstall.
Oh well, I don't want to have to reinstall my browser every four weeks. I'll just stick with IE.
How about you huge percentage of non-Linux users go back to your nice little world of closed operating systems and closed source applications by pretending that we're not here then? Oh, and give us Firefox back, by the way...
Had Linux not drawn a lot of the world's eyes towards Open Source (after all, who apart from a few of us geeks, had heard of Richard Stallman before we heard about Linus Torvalds?), I very much doubt you lot on Windows would be enjoying the benefits of some great open source software - not to mention the fact that Apple would never have even considered building a Mac OS on a BSD core.
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.