Mozilla collapses under 14,000 downloads a minute

[Gigacore]

Firefox's 3 much heralded launch campaign appears to have worked, with the company reporting that in the first few hours of release 14,000 people were downloading the software every minute.

With each copy of Firefox 3 clocking in at 7MB, that means the company's servers were dealing with a staggering 13 gigabits of data every second. It's unsurprising then, that the success came at a cost, with Mozilla.com being knocked offline for almost two hours as servers struggled to cope with initial demand.

"The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!)", the company noted on its blog. "Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment. Thanks for your continued support."


With the servers now up and running, Mozilla currently estimates that it is "serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts Mozilla on track to achieve five to seven million downloads the first day of general availability."



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[mastermunj]

wow!!

[infra_red_dude]

Beggars.. aur bheek maango to download and set "world record"!!!! World record, my foot!

But I'm loving FF3.. no issues at all. I'm happy, Thank you FF and Mozilla

[Gigacore]

yeah, they wanted to set the record... but servers crashed for few hours.. lol

[MetalheadGautham]

I knew this would happen. They should have used many more servers.
They were trying to give more than they can offer.

Obviously everyone wanted to be the first to download it.

This is an event I guess mozilla will never forget

[desiibond]

current count is at 5.5 million

[naveen_reloaded]

Lol....

Move to opera!! Hi hi hi

[desiibond]

HEHE. yes.

This time Opera looks like a clear winner in terms of performance. But it's Mozilla's strategy that may tilt the marketshare to their side.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by desiibond

HEHE. yes.

This time Opera looks like a clear winner in terms of performance. But it's Mozilla's strategy that may tilt the marketshare to their side.

AFAIK, both perform equally (bad) on my system.
Opera and FF both have issues with many things.

[adi007]

Opera rocks when compared to FF3...
I am waiting for FF 3.0.0.1..
i have already ditched this FF3

[nish_higher]

well this is the first time i can open Firefox instantly on a quad core
version2 took some time.i dont know why this happened.
FF3 is stable.i deleted all the addons and it works perfectly.no crashes til now.
Opera seems better but there's no option to have a master password (correct me if im wrong)

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by nish_higher

Opera seems better but there's no option to have a master password (correct me if im wrong)

[x3060]

i will give a try...

[adi007]

Originally Posted by nish_higher

well this is the first time i can open Firefox instantly on a quad core
version2 took some time.i dont know why this happened.
FF3 is stable.i deleted all the addons and it works perfectly.no crashes til now.
Opera seems better but there's no option to have a master password (correct me if im wrong)

U are wrong ..
u can set master password..
Tools>>Preference>>Advanced

Screen shot:



Edit:Opps..some one already found out..
Sorry i had disabled images...so didn't knew this before

[praka123]

it is not begging!it is for a record!

[nish_higher]

Originally Posted by adi007

U are wrong ..
u can set master password..
Tools>>Preference>>Advanced

Screen shot:



Edit:Opps..some one already found out..
Sorry i had disabled images...so didn't knew this before

hehe..
thank u s18000rpm and adi

[nvidia]

I still cant start the download!

[naveen_reloaded]

Those master passwords are for wand...am i right? Is there a way for password lock the whole browser...
Opera new version is really hot.. But suffers at some site...ff is bloated comes second to ie if you ask me...
Opera is really cool...least memory footprint...very fast page loading and cache is superb...better than ff...
Only thing making ff so popular is that its open source... But wait how many of up can really do with open source code? Not me...atleast...

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by naveen_reloaded

Those master passwords are for wand...am i right? Is there a way for password lock the whole browser...

ya, it locks/protects wand.
y lock whole browser?

[naveen_reloaded]

You see... ..Cough.. i mean ..cough.. Hope you understand..... Cough..

But the thing is i recently came across a software for locking the browsers...

[dOm1naTOr]

after setting the record, everyone will forget bout the begging, theyll all remember only the record

[nitish_mythology]

Even I found Opera 9.5 better []

[Most Wanted]

I am also among those 14000.
Wow................

[ax3]

its a record ...... cool ..... in just a min ......

[amrawtanshx]

But they haven't declared their no. of downloads as yet .....

Now lets see whether IE 8 will trigger such a response.

[dOm1naTOr]

Originally Posted by amrawtanshx

Now lets see whether IE 8 will trigger such a response.

do u even think theres a chance??

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by dOm1naTOr

do u even think theres a chance??

If Microsoft puts it under WIndows Update, offcourse there is

[praka123]

...as if people all over the world choose wiblow$ update

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by praka123

...as if people all over the world choose wiblow$ update

Dont worry, a majority does. Always Remember, majority of the Computer users are not techy geeks and most of the world does have a very High Speed Broadband connection so leaving Windows Update on doesnt even bother them

[neerajvohra]

All I can say is FIREFOX 3 Rocks !!