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Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
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CmdrTaco
on Wednesday June 18, @08:47AM
from the oops-sorry-that-was-me dept.
from the oops-sorry-that-was-me dept.
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.
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An anonymous reader writes "Using data generated by the Mozilla Firefox download pledge page, the map on this blog post ranks countries, not by absolute number of pledges made, but rather on a per capita basis. This analysis yields some interesting conclusions about where open source is strongest and weakest."
Anonymous Warthog writes "That didn't take long. In a blog posting from the TippingPoint DVLabs security team (of Kraken and CanSecWest hacking contest fame), they confirmed that they reported a vulnerability in Firefox 3.0 to Mozilla a mere five hours after it was released. Additionally, there was a posting on the Full Disclosure security mailing list from someone that purports to have another vulnerability in the works as well. In the grand scheme of things, this probably means nothing to the general security of Firefox, but you can be sure the browser zealots on all sides will be watching carefully."
Finally, from reader Toreo asesino: "Microsoft have congratulated the Mozilla team by sending them their second cake (minus recipe) to Mozilla's Mountain View headquarters to congratulate them on shipping FireFox 3, which went live right on time last night." Congratulations are indeed due on both the browser and the release process — looks like the Firefox fever (despite some seriously taxed servers) resulted in more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
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Cause found, not to worry. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Cause found, not to worry. (Score:5, Funny)
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What a relief... (Score:5, Funny)
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Download Counter (Score:5, Informative)
By my calculations, they won't be able to hit the 10 million mark in time.
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Hard to read (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Download Counter (Score:5, Informative)
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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.
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Re:And THIS is why you use a CDN of some sort... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:And THIS is why you use a CDN of some sort... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:And THIS is why you use a CDN of some sort... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:And THIS is why you use a CDN of some sort... (Score:5, Funny)
I am sure a New Zealander or German would have been just as helpful as a Canadian. But thanks for the complement.
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Pointy Haired Wisdom (Score:5, Insightful)
It'd be nice if they could use bittorrent to help with the load they're putting on themselves.
During the outage, I was still able to find a mirror ftp site that had the 3.0 install, and download it, but it wasn't as easy as it should have been, and lots of other parts of the mozilla site went down at times, too, making it difficult to find extensions, or just information.
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Not counted (Score:5, Insightful)
Only those who download Firefow from the website will be counted? That would be pretty much only the Windows users, I guess.
Lots of people just use Synaptics or whatever package manager their distro provides. In my case it will be typing "emerge -avuDt world". I'm not going to download from the website just to get counted, you know.
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Re:Not counted (Score:5, Insightful)
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Actually, it's 2:16 p.m. to 2:16 p.m. (Score:5, Informative)
So take heart, frustrated downloaders: you have 76 more minutes than you thought.
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Question (Score:5, Insightful)
The REAL news: According to the download counter, Firefox has long surpassed their stated goal of 1.5 million downloads, and is now over 6.5 million. This is cause for frontpage news, not the stupid server crash.
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Either way, the real winner is Guinness... (Score:5, Funny)
If they fail, they'll be drowning their sorrows in pints of Guinness...
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Potentially harmful? (Score:5, Interesting)
Attempted to download Firefox (Safari on Windows XP) and I get this message when the download is complete:
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Re:Microsoft-DDOS? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Microsoft-DDOS? (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Microsoft-DDOS? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Aren't these guys supposed to be better? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:I would just like to say (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:For the record (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Doing well so far (Score:5, Funny)
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