
As many of you probably know, June 17, 10am PST is the drop date for
Firefox 3, and they’re attempting a Guinness World Record of most
downloads in one day as a kickoff promotion. I’m writing this at
10:11am PST, 11 minutes after the new Firefox 3 drop date, and the site
has been down for the past ~15 minutes or so. In effect, the Mozilla
foundation essentially DDoS’ed themselves with their record attempt
(for the newbz, DDoS = distributed denial of service, where a site goes
down due to massive amounts of connection requests)! You’d think they
would have anticipated the massive load.
Anyway, when you’re ready to give it a shot check it out here. I’ve been using it since 3.0b3 and it’s pretty good so far.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
