Posts Tagged ‘FireFox 3’

Firefox 3.0, crashes and bandwidth overload

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Some two and a half hours into the FF3.0 download campaign, and the toll is beginning to show.spreadfirefox.com seems to be refusing connections. While individual mirror sites seem up, it looks like the counts are going via some redirector script. getfirefox.com is however working fine.

The impact its having on mirrors seems to be quite intense. The following two images sow traffic stats from mirror.ac.za the mirror service run by TENET here in South Africa.

Total bandwidth form mirror.ac.za nodes

Update:

A Firefox 3.0 download counter is now available. 943806 currently averaging some 7000/minute. Some commentary on the outages, although they seem to have cleared.

Download Day - English

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FireFox 3.0 Launch day & record Attempt

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Today is the official launch of the Firefox 3.0 Browser. the 24 Hour period form June 17th to June 18th will be a a record attempt in order to get into the Guinness book of Records, for the most software downloads in a day. The day apparently starts on Tuesday, June 17th after 10am PDT.

This Aside, I think the upgrade is well worth it , and I’ve been more than happy since Beta2 when I move my primary system over to running 3.0. The biggest improvements being rendering when switching between tabs ( and I usually have LOTS of tabs) and memory usage.

Download Day - English

Tomorrow regular programming resumes ;)

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