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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. Re:Download Counter by Kamokazi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm downloading it at 1:01 pm becase I'm a jackass. That, and Opera 9.5 is still nice and shiny, even has that new browser smell...and I don't want to give it up just yet.

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  2. Re:Not counted by dargaud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly what I'll be doing: first it looks too much like IE7 for my taste, and also I'll let others find the bugs in it during the first days !

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  3. Re:Cause found, not to worry. by mikesd81 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Most Slashdotters just feel it's important because FF is not a Microsoft project, so therefore it's good. It's that MS BAD mentality. But I see using Firefox not as an alternative browser issue, but more as an open source issue. And Microsoft is afraid of Open Source.

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