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Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oops-sorry-that-was-me dept.

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.

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  1. Not counted by HyperQuantum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Only those who download Firefow from the website will be counted? That would be pretty much only the Windows users, I guess.

    Lots of people just use Synaptics or whatever package manager their distro provides. In my case it will be typing "emerge -avuDt world". I'm not going to download from the website just to get counted, you know.

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    I am not really here right now.
    1. Re:Not counted by luserSPAZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not to burst your bubble, but Linux users only account for a tiny percentage of total users anyway, so I don't think it will make much of a difference.

  2. Re:Aren't these guys supposed to be better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, 'cause the guys making the browser are the same guys running the servers.

  3. Question by pdusen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is it that 24 hours after the crash happened, we're now hearing about how the servers were down 24 hours ago?

    The REAL news: According to the download counter, Firefox has long surpassed their stated goal of 1.5 million downloads, and is now over 6.5 million. This is cause for frontpage news, not the stupid server crash.

  4. Which is why XAML is so important by theolein · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason that Microsoft pushed XAML as hard as they do is because they wanted to once again control the web. Some moron in Microsoft's marketing department must have thought that with XAML being easy to use and implement would stop supporting html/xhtml and slowly move over to XAMl based applications.

    This, of course, didn't happen for the same reason activex didn't become hugely popular: it's not compatible with other browsers.

    The web has come far enough now, that microsoft cannot really control it realistically.

    But then, another goon in marketing thought that Silverlight would be the answer...