Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day 427
Kolargol00 writes "An outage affected the Mozilla.com website on the day the organisation launched its Guinness World Record attempt for downloads of the new Firefox 3 browser. The mozilla.com site was unreachable from around the world, occasionally responding with the message, 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.'" Since they decided to run their day from 1pm to 1pm Eastern time, the download day is actually still going, so you can still get Firefox and be part of the record.
And THIS is why you use a CDN of some sort... (Score:5, Interesting)
Victoria's Secret learned a LONG time ago when broadcasting their "Fashion show" online for the first time: If you want to deal with massive hordes of salavating geeks, you need to use a CDN.
Stale mirrors (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Doing well so far (Score:1, Interesting)
Who currently has the record? (Score:3, Interesting)
Potentially harmful? (Score:5, Interesting)
Attempted to download Firefox (Safari on Windows XP) and I get this message when the download is complete:
Re:Download counter (Score:2, Interesting)
Direct FTP counted? (Score:3, Interesting)
-molo
Re:firefox should be about quality not hype (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Download Counter (Score:5, Interesting)
Install over Firefox 2? (Score:1, Interesting)
I would like to keep all the passwords, cookies, history and extensions...
Re:Not counted (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Pointy Haired Wisdom (Score:3, Interesting)
Unfortunately, many millions of people ended up not even seeing the release until 1PM local time. And then, at 1PM, the site quickly went down. So the actual experience probably was a negative for a lot of people. Someone should have told Mozilla Foundation that June 17 starts at 12:00:01 AM in every time zone.
So was the exercise a net gain or net loss in terms of public awareness of Mozilla and public perception of Mozilla quality? I'm thinking the execution could have been quite a bit better.
Re:1pm - 1pm eastern time is not really a day (Score:3, Interesting)
I reckon they should have gone for UT+1 - the same time zone as CERN in Geneva, where Tim Berners-Lee created the web.
Re:Not counted (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Hard to read (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Download Counter (Score:1, Interesting)
My possible solutions were:
1.) Install IE 7.0
2.) Install XP SP3
3.) Migrate to another web browser
TR had the following responses:
1.) You can upgrade to 7.0, but we cannot support it.
2.) We are not deploying SP3
3.) FireFox 3.0 is being released today, you could download that and see if it solves the problem.
Sure enough, after a quick download and install, everything is working fine. I'm still not sure what was causing IE to crash every time I tried to open a link in Sharepoint, but at this point in time - I don't care.
Re:Hard to read (Score:2, Interesting)
Remember the dot-com era? Remember the overdone, NON-user-friendly, Flash-overloaded websites?
Well, we are going to get more of that. Flash lets you circumvent the principles of the Web, one of which is: I get to decide how YOUR data streams are rendered into graphics for ME. I can ditch everything in italics tags if I want to! I can make it bigger, smaller, different font, no pics, no ads, YOU NAME IT.
Thank your lucky stars that you can still manipulate part of the websites you see.
Because "content" providers don't like that. They want YOU to take it as a whole, and that means locking it all in Flash. Flash that you can't change text size on or remove ads from. (Yes, I know it's possible to figure out OCR programs that can find text in Flash graphics and change its size. But let's not kid ourselves. NO ONE will bothere to actually program that. Think about it. We can't get anyone to write a simple color transform plugin to help color-blind people read pictures such as maps that have poor red/green coloring schemes. You think someone's going to give you a LireSux plugin? HELL ****ING NO.)
You're EXCITED about all your webby functionality, and all you're going to do with LireSux 3? I'm not.
I'm not looking forward to my bookmarks and javascript whitelist being deleted again. (Yes, I know how to recover the bookmarks
I'm not looking forward to deleted functionality (like making addresses in the drop-down address bar not load instantly when I click on them) and then the LireSux folks deleting evidence that this functionality ever existed, all while Internet Exploder happily carries it, and then hearing LireSux fanboys gush about how DANGEROUS that feature was and how it should be removed and HELL NO I shouldn't have the choice to bring it back, even in the buried-deep options list.
I'm not looking forward to fill-in lists popping up on web forms, which cover up stuff I want to see and aren't even convenient to invoke! (Thanks for making me move my right hand that far, morons.)
I am, however, looking forward to the neat feature that lets you load sites in IE. That's pretty cool.
Re:Cause found, not to worry. (Score:5, Interesting)
Hell, the IE team sent them a cake:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/06/17/the-cake-is-a-lie-ie-team-bakes-a-treat-for-mozilla [arstechnica.com]
And I'd wager it makes their jobs a lot more interesting and important, so there's no resentment there.
I don't get why Microsoft would care, frankly.
Re:Cause found, not to worry. (Score:5, Interesting)
Patches for windows (Score:2, Interesting)