Will the firefox/mozilla website crash on Download day

@pitstop (13850)
Australia
June 17, 2008 12:04pm CST
As some of you know today is Download day for Firefox version 3.0 and they plan to create a guiness record for maximum downloads in one day. Obviously this will put a severe strain on their server even if they have multiple mirror sites. Will they be able to bear the load? I presently cant access the spreadfirefox site and mozilla mainpage is hardly loading. Did they bite off more than they can chew?!!
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Valenas
@Valenas (1507)
• United States
17 Jun 08
They may have, or they may be more prepared than we think. If they are wishing to create a Guiness record for the maximum downloads, they must have prepared for what at least what it would take to set the record, one would think.
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Valenas
@Valenas (1507)
• United States
17 Jun 08
Just thought that I would say that I just downloaded Firefox 3. It seems a bit different, but not much. I have a bit of "getting used to it" to do.
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Pitstop
@pitstop (13850)
• Australia
17 Jun 08
Have you noticed any bugs or problems so far?
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Valenas
@Valenas (1507)
• United States
17 Jun 08
When I opened 3.0 for the first time, it seemed a bit glitchy on a site that I go to, but it could have been the website. So far, it seems fine to me.
Brokenchords
@Brokenchords (66)
• Canada
17 Jun 08
Haha, yeah, it seems like a little much. I would suspect them to be on top of it though, trying to break a record. They seem like people to get prepared. Speaking of which, I should probably go download it.
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Pitstop
@pitstop (13850)
• Australia
17 Jun 08
Same here - the website simply does not open! Guess they just bit off more than they could chew!! The connection has timed out The server at spreadfirefox.com is taking too long to respond.
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Brokenchords
@Brokenchords (66)
• Canada
17 Jun 08
Hmm... well now I'm getting a 'http/1.1 Service Unavailable' error.I can't get onto the Mozilla site. Too bad, I want it. I guess I'll have to wait for a while.
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ferdzNK
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
17 Jun 08
It did crash but according to Yahoo news their back on line after an hour. 3 hours after its official start in my place I couldn't still open the spread firefox site. Its a good thing I receive a mail that point me to the link where to get it. I'm now using it and I could really see and feel the difference between 2.x and 3.0. though to be fair with 2.x, I could clock its load time if all my addon is compatible with 3.0. But for browsing wooosssh its fast.)
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