I managed to download Firefox 3 nearly 10 hours after the announced official download time. That’s how long it took me to get through to their download site.
Charles Arthur at The Guardian says it right…
Let’s see, we have it here somewhere…. ah, yes, hubris.
“Excessive pride or self-confidence”. Well, they’ll have some time to
look it up at Firefox headquarters, once they’ve stopped scurrying
around trying to get the servers that were going to host the world record downloads to actually, um, serve some downloads.We don’t know what the problems are, but a vague guess might suggest
that inviting millions of people around the globe to download your
product, which millions of them already use, might put a teensy bit of
pressure on the servers.Getfirefox has, since the official opening of the site (at 10am US
Pacific time, 1pm US Eastern time, 6pm UK BST), struggled to show
anything, or else happily pointed you to a nice download. Of Firefox 2. [read the rest of the article here]
As my twitter friend Chris tweeted a few hours earlier…
Why is a Web site never ready when its creators urge millions to come all at once and use it, and then millions actually do?
They seem to have gotten over their initial difficulties though. At the time of posting this, a little over twelve hours into Download Day, their record site says that they have slightly more than 4 million downloads!!
Hahahaha, vijay you are such a firefox fanboy!! I want to get you a shirt that you can wear that says “I love firefox!!!”.
Lol, thanks for making me laugh. Hahahahahaha.
IE is better!
I am a longtime Firefox user too, but I wondered at the need to set a Guinness Book record, to ask everyone to stop everything and download FF all on the same day, and then neglect even to ensure that all your customers can actually download it instead of spending half their day seeing if the site was up. Hubris sums it up.
Btw, I am tagging you again, this time to write some Haiku