Firefox 3 'Download Day' Cripples Mozilla Site

posted by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 14:41 UTC

Mozilla's big plan on Tuesday to set a world record for downloads with the newly released Firefox 3 browser hit a snag when its Web site would not work properly. The Mozilla Dev Blog reports that the site, when restored, was receiving over 13 gigabits per second of traffic! In addition, PCWorld is offering a brief Firefox 3 FAQ for new and existing users.

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