Firefox 3 Download Record Hampered By Servers

Peaked at 14,000 per minute

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Mozilla, which sponsors and oversees development of the open-source Web browser, released Firefox 3 for download on Tuesday. It primed the publicity pump with an effort to set a 24-hour download record, and interest by the abundant Firefox loyalists brought Mozilla's servers to their knees for nearly two hours Wednesday.

Mozilla has been fulfilling pent-up demand ever since. Sometime after 7 a.m. PDT, downloads crossed the 7 million mark, according to Mozilla's download counter, which is fun to watch, even though it's badly formatted.

The download rate, which peaked at 14,000 per minute Tuesday, was about 6,600 per minute Wednesday morning.

Firefox Download Record Hampered By Servers [download.com]

Firefox for Guinness World Record - Max downloads a day [webmasterworld.com]

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I couldn't download it yesterday but managed today. However...

A complete waste of time. I've gone back to Firefox 2 due entirely to the "awful bar". The only explanation I can think of is that Mozilla has been infiltrated by Microsoft. I'd rather use Internet Explorer than endure that particular piece of garbage.

Kaled.