I really tried to help Mozilla to make the Guinness Record for the most downloaded software within 24 hours. But unfortunately the poor preparation of Mozilla made it very difficult for me to even get on the website. I tried from 1:40pm (Eastern time, 40 minutes after the official release time) to 2:40pm and could not connect to the website. I am sure it was because too many people were connecting to the website at that moment, but Mozilla should have known better before it put such statement as Make Guinness Record on its website to promote Firefox and lure everybody.
I put some available screenshots below and hope the poor website will be back soon.
Mozilla.com which hosts Firefox and Thunderbird was down with “Service Unavailable” error message
And the FireFox could not connect to the download page of Firefox 3.0 on Spreadfirefox website
Finally, I even tried the Firefox Check Updates… feature and no luck at all.
[Updated: the website is back now, it is not too late to download the firefox 3.0 and make the Guinness Record now before 18:00 EST 6/18/2008]
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