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Despite a rough start, Firefox 3 Download Day a success

by Steven Sande Jun 18th 2008 at 8:00AM

As reported earlier here on TUAW, Firefox 3 Download Day began with a whimper instead of a bang. Starting shortly after the official launch, TUAW received a number of tips from readers who tried downloading the vulpine browser and got...nothing.

It appears that things cleared up fairly quickly. Several TUAW bloggers were able to successfully download the new browser about 90 minutes after the 10 AM PDT launch. The Mozilla Blog has a message from Paul Kim, Mozilla's VP of marketing, talking about the early difficulties and the subsequent download trend:

"Our systems were quite busy earlier this morning so individual requests may not have gotten through - but they are all up now and serving a tremendous amount of traffic and downloads. We are currently serving almost 9,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to achieve 5-7 million downloads our first day of general availability."

More highlights and records are outlined on the blog. Be sure to download your very own customized Thank You! Certificate, available here.

[via the Mozilla Blog]

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PSM

Looks like they broke compatibility with .Mac webmail in the Windows client, which is how I check my mail when using Boot Camp. Congrats Firefox, Safari just became my default Windows browser.

June 18 2008 at 2:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

Has anyone run across a theme for FF3 that makes it look like FF2 for the Mac? I know lots of purists like the FF3 look, but I want Firefox to look like Firefox, not Safari. I hate the all-gray look.

June 18 2008 at 12:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fishbert

FF3RC3 hasn't told me there is an update available, so no download for lazy ol' me. Or, perhaps FF3RC3 = FF3?

June 18 2008 at 11:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan Trevisol

Thank god for the return of Adblock!

June 18 2008 at 10:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
paul merrill

The download worked fine. The browser works fine.

The only bug I found is that it somehow loaded up my set of bookmarks that was maybe a month old. (Strange!)

June 18 2008 at 10:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dannel

maybe, instead on focusing on giving Firefox a facelift, they should focus on maintaining plugin compatibility.

Also, am I the only one who hates the new AwesomeBar (the FF3 location bar)? I really don't like how it behaves, in previous betas I could disable the new behavior but it seems they took that away now. :/

I spent a couple hours on the #firefox IRC channel trying to fix this but nothing.

June 18 2008 at 10:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dale

It uses Growl! I was not aware of that. So far, the only casualty is FireBug.

June 18 2008 at 10:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
schölli

It seems that Firefox 3 is not supported on some websites ;)

I just searched for some iphone accessoires...and yeah..speck products advises me to use firefox 2 instead of 3...
http://escssrv002.host.pc4u.at/media/firefox3outofdate.png

June 18 2008 at 10:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thom Brooks

http://tinyurl.com/5xqv59

June 18 2008 at 10:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason Stiles

TUAW seems to scroll really slowly in FF3... Kind of sucks.... Not noticing this on other sites

June 18 2008 at 9:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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