Get Firefox...If You Can
As you may know, today is Firefox's big day: June 17th: Download Day. At Mozilla, they've set a goal to achieve the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. The number they want to reach is 5 million. This may turn out to be tough because as of 1 PM ET, the Firefox download page at www.getfirefox.com was to feature the download for the new Firefox 3 web browser. Instead, it features nothing. The site is down.
Considering that they were preparing for a record-breaking day, you would think that they would have also prepared for this:
Despite what that error message says, it's not really the network connection that has been interrupted - they've been overloaded.
So, if you're just dying to get your hands on a new browser today, may I suggest a couple of alternatives instead?
Flock 2.0 is now out and it's built on Firefox 3's code base.
Opera 9.5 is new, too, and pretty slick.
UPDATE #1: getfirefox.com is pointing to Firefox 2 again. The Download Day page is displaying this:
UPDATE #2: Bwana McCall has posted direct download links. Here they are:
UPDATE #3: You can track the number of downloads Firefox 3 has had on Wakoopa's site here.
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I guess it was predictable...
Still not as annoying as IE though. :)
Hey Sarah,
I used Bwana's direct download link. But I just checked Help -> Release Notes, and I have RC3 not 3.0 Stable! I think I have the wrong version. And I'm not sure my download added to the counter: http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
Just letting you know. Bye!
well, the softpedia, that don't have anything with download record, was the first link for me on google which was offering the ff3 final. link for mac under, but there's pc's also there.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-3-Released-for-Mac-88149.shtml
Download page finally working (2:42PM EST)
it's really a pain to try to dl. I do have the beta release from a week ago and im wondering if its worth dling today or just sticking with what i have. ill check out a few of the dl links above.
thanks
Well, I believe RC3 was the final RC, so it is basically the same thing as 3.0.
I'm still waiting for the official links, though, to be sure my download is counted ;-)
Mirrors don't count toward the world record. This direct link is working:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
( edit URL for your OS )
I tried to install FF3 from a direct link...and it installed Release Candidate 3. The firefox homepage (as of 3:45 EST) had no mention of Firefox 3...just Firefox 2.
I ended up having to head to Europe to get FF3...which worked swimmingly:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
Firefox 3 rocks and is super fast as promised. Optimize your FF3 experience with Firefox’s recommended add-on, the Me.dium Social Toolbar. Find us on AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4365
Friend pjn, gfigg, and jenniferlauren so we can surf around together in Me.dium and talk about how Fx3 kicks @$$!! http://blogme.dium.com/content/2008/06/welcome-firefox-3-users
seriously, at 12:05 am i dl ffx3 only to realize it was the release candidate/beta version. i did some more research and found out that it would be accessible at 10am. finally at 10:30am i went to the website only to be shut out because it was so freaking logged w/ traffic. now it is 3pm and i can finally access the dl page. thank god
I must be one of the very few people who thinks that Firefox 3 speed is better but is not as great as advertised. I still have hope that one day a lighter version would come out that takes out a bunch of fancy things that I don't really need and add up to memory usage.
thanks