Mozilla sets world record for server crashes
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Mozilla’s download day has already turned into one impressive record breaker for the Open Source community.
Global servers for Mozilla.com crashed simultaneously three minutes before the official launch of Firefox 3 this morning, preventing angry users from gaining access to the latest version of the popular web browser. I’m awaiting official confirmation whether so many servers have crashed collectively before - but regardless this is a really impressive achievement for everyone involved.
If Mozilla really wants to enter the Guinness Book of Records for Downloads in a single day, we better hope Mozilla is doing its own accounting. 23 minutes in and the download count stands at ZERO.
Maybe people should have heeded my advice earlier and waited a few days before even bothering to attempt to download the software.
Thankfully I’m able to post this message in my rock stable Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 web browser.
8 Comments
Nicolas LaBarre
June 17th, 2008
at 10:32am
I hope Mozilla gets their servers up and going because I was really hyped for this release.
Borat
June 17th, 2008
at 10:37am
hey man jsut because you have IE7 doesn’t mean that it is better than ff3 we don’t know yet
if people would just stop clicking the link, then the servers wouldn’t be down
me
June 17th, 2008
at 10:49am
i just need the upgrade from rc to final. so stick to ie7, we moved forward a long time ago
John Cow
June 17th, 2008
at 11:07am
We’ve been using Firefox for years now and will never step back down to any form of IE.
Even if Mozilla’s server’s crash, that’s fine, We will wait until we are able to download it.
earle.allen
June 17th, 2008
at 11:11am
this page is very unstable,ya know ?
while everyone else is looking for 3.0,i installed Minefield 3.1a1,lol. ahead of the herd!
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.1a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Yahoo e-mail gave me the warning that Minefield wasn’t [ or may not be ] supported but both Yahoo and G-Mail are not affected in any way
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June 17th, 2008
at 11:41am
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the oracle
June 17th, 2008
at 8:44pm
Should you want to establish a point in the future, you probably shouldn’t use any version of Internet Explorer as the example - I use it when I have to, and on my 5 XP machines, otherwise ‘rock stable’ as you put it, IE is not always stable.
Apparently Microsoft even acknowledges this, as IE8 is going to include the ‘go back’ feature, to allow someone to return to a place just beore the browser crashed.
Open Minded
June 20th, 2008
at 5:20am
That “go back” feature you mention for IE8 was already in FireFox 2, where it asks when you are restarting after a crash whether you want to reload the content that was there before the crash. FF2 crashed, FF3 will too, as will most any browser if you use it for a wide variety of tasks — many of the crashes come from page content, add-ins, etc., not from the browser being evil.