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.

To put some more color behind what’s been happening on this historic day:

*We exceeded the first day download mark for Firefox 2 of 1.6 million after just five hours of availability for Firefox 3.
*Net Applications is already reporting a 300% positive change in Firefox 3 market share worldwide just today.
*Over 500 articles about the launch were linked to from Google News
*The Firefox 3 launch made the front pages of BBC.co.uk, NYTimes.com, Liberation.fr, laRepubblica.it, Digg, Slashdot, Techcrunch, and Yahoo! News
*The completely redesigned Mozilla.com launched in over 25 language versions
*New community activity on SpreadFirefox.com has skyrocketed with dozens of new groups and hundreds of new postings
*Over 700 community launch parties have been registered on mozillaparty.com

Source: The Mozilla Blog


Update:

Mozilla.com web traffic is pushing well over 2 Gigabits a second of just pure HTTP traffic. That is in addition to the 13 Gigabits a second or so of download traffic. We are still at around 14,000 download/minute and mozilla.com is responding well! Go Mozilla community and IT team!

Source: Mozilla Developer Center


DOWNLOAD FIREFOX 3.0

Anyone using it already?

I have it, but haven't used it much yet. From what little I have used it, it seems faster than IE

Oh wow, I forgot that was today. Guess I'll go get it!

I've been using the RC's and while I like it overall... I am not a big fan of the search history drop down. I much prefer the 2.0 version of that.

I'm just getting HTTP 500 Internal Server Error on about 5 different download links I've tried

EDIT: Got it from FileHippo

I downloaded it 3 times for 3 different computers (could have networked but I want to contribute to the record ) and I had a slight delay but no problem otherwise.

The one I got from FileHippo has a date of May 2008 so I'm not installing it. I'll wait for the servers to slow down.

Grav!ty wrote:

The one I got from FileHippo has a date of May 2008 so I'm not installing it. I'll wait for the servers to slow down.

Ya, the EULA reads May 2008, if that's what you mean. It's a 7.14MB d/l.

kanaloa wrote:

I've been using the RC's and while I like it overall... I am not a big fan of the search history drop down. I much prefer the 2.0 version of that.

There are times when I like the new history drop down, and other times when I don't. I did find that if you start typing something and it brings up multiple results, the more you go to the one you want if it's further down the list, the closer to the top it will get when you have the same string in the address bar. Just updated my portage tree in Gentoo and am going to compile and install it soon