Firefox 3 gets off to a bad start
Firefox June 17th, 2008
It looks like Mozilla’s Firefox Download Day has got off to a bad start - this was the picture at 1800 UK time (the exact time of release):
I’m guessing they’ve hit unprecedented traffic volumes, as there were a lot of people waiting for this. Conspiracy theorists might say that Microsoft probably set up a well-timed DDoS attack on Mozilla’s servers - for the purposes of any Microsoft lawyers, I’m not a conspiracy nut 
Now, at 45 minutes after the planned release, Mozilla appears to have rolled back to Firefox 2…
June 17th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
It’s not me doing something wrong then. Phew!
You’d think they’d have beefed up their server clusters/net connections in preparation for this. They are expecting record downloads in the next 23.75 hours after all.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
The download page seems to be up now:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/