Firefox 3 Download Day goes kaput!

Mozilla has been hyping today as Firefox 3 “Download Day” in order to set the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. Everybody’s talking about it, bloggers are blogging about it but when the time came (around 1:00am MST), the Mozilla website went kaput!

Great PR waiting for a disaster. Download sites are down or not loading on the first couple of hours od D-Day — getfirefox.com, firefox.com, mozilla.org can’t be accessed.

Over 1.5 million users have pledged to download the Firefox 3 browser on D-Day. They practicallyÂ asked for a DDOS and did not prepare for it.

After about 2 or so hours, I was able to access the Mozilla site and downloaded a copy of FF3 final release.

Go and download you own copy of FF3 here and be part of a world record. Hopefully, the links are still up before the 24-hour deadline ends. (If you’re already on a beta version of FF3, don’t use the Update feature. Go directly to the site and click on the download link to be counted.)

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

24 Comments

jhay says:

17 years ago

I knew it was going to happen. It’s a good thing I went to bed early instead of staying up and waiting for the 1am “opening.”

Woke up at around 6am, accessed Mozilla just fine and right now, I’m using Firefox 3. :)
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Bintulu says:

17 years ago

Buddy – the download area should be at – www.spreadfirefox.com. It was alright at 1.00 am UTC and I managed to download mine without much problem.

It’s a great browser though. Love it.
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noemi says:

17 years ago

I was able to download the mac os version in less than 3 minutes.
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jashe says:

17 years ago

downloaded both firefox and thunderbird. wanna be part of the world record :D
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jashe says:

17 years ago

btw downloaded both in 5 minutes
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sylv3rblade says:

17 years ago

I didn’t have to download mine (the whole version I mean). Been using RC as my main browser ever since RC 1 came out. Automatic update was a cinch.
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Bigbird says:

17 years ago

Im excited to the mobile version release!

Firefox offers simplicity and the best usability.

http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
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Jim says:

17 years ago

done! ;)
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watsap says:

17 years ago

downloaded and running…
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Jeffrey says:

17 years ago

I like it! It’s fast and smoooth!

Congrats Firefox!
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JM says:

17 years ago

Andami kasing excited eh, ayan tuloy.

Downloaded mine this morning, around 7:30 am. Didn’t encounter any problems.

And I hate that address bar thing. Brrrr. So complicated!
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edwin says:

17 years ago

Yeah the address bar sucks big time cos I kept seeing the sites I went to when I type the address. Or baka naman hindi pa ako sanay!!!

But the thing is firefox 3 is fassssssssssssssssssssssssssssst!!!

I love it.
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james says:

17 years ago

where;s the linux version?
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pinkposhandplush says:

17 years ago

Gotcha!!! ;)
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vance says:

17 years ago

wow! almost 10K Filipino pledgers last time i check!
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vance says:

17 years ago

I like the new address bar.. yan nga yung pinaka ok na fdeature nf firefox 3. Why? you don’t need to input the whole site url! Just type a word like “technology” then all the sites that you have visited in the past that has something to do with that word will pop out. unlike before you have to put the exact URL.
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dimaks says:

17 years ago

i also obeserved the downtime of mozilla download site.. i tried again after a few hours and there i got it. now its running.
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JC John SESE Cuneta says:

17 years ago

They actually pushed the update and the download link 24 hours before the actual date of Guinness recording. They lost a couple million already for doing that.

FF3 has been downloadable and updateable since UTC+1200 stroke yesterday. Really weird if they want to establish a world records :p

Anyway, I re-downloaded so I’ll be counted.
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Lad says:

17 years ago

I don’t know, but I did not encounter any of those downtime server you mentioned. I’m pretty sure I downloaded it just a few minutes after the official start.
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manu says:

17 years ago

im using FF3 just now….
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