Despite a rough start, Firefox 3 Download Day a success

June 18, 2008 · Print This Article

As reported earlier here on TUAW, Firefox 3 Download Day began with a whimper instead of a bang. Starting shortly after the official launch, TUAW received a number of tips from readers who tried downloading the vulpine browser and got…nothing.

It appears that things cleared up fairly quickly. Several TUAW bloggers were able to successfully download the new browser about 90 minutes after the 10 AM PDT launch. The Mozilla Blog has a note from Paul Kim, Mozilla’s VP of marketing, talking about the early difficulties and the subsequent download trend:

“Our systems were quite busy earlier that so individual requests may not have gotten through - but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads. We are currently serving nearly 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to achieve 5-7 million downloads our first day of general availability.”

More highlights and records are outlined on the blog. Be certain to download your very own customized Thank You! Certificate, available here.

[via the Mozilla Blog]

[Source] Steven Sande

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