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It appears that Mozilla has shot itself in the foot with the Firefox 3 Download Day Guinness Book of World Records attempt.
As of 2:00pm Eastern time, a full hour after Mozilla said that Firefox would be available, the site is sporadically producing errors reading “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.” A Mozilla rep said the team was working to get the download site up quickly.
A Mozilla blog post stated the following: “The outpouring of interest and enthusiasm around Firefox 3 has been overwhelming (literally!). Our servers are currently feeling the burn and should be back to normal shortly. Download day will officially commence once the site goes live. The 24 hours period will be clocked from that moment.”
The statement acknowledges that the browser maker has missed its launch time of 10 AM Pacific Time, which was already a postponement of the announced 12:01am Pacific time launch.
PC Magazine has published a review of Firefox 3, which seems to be handling heavy traffic without incident.
Update: As of 3PM Eastern Time, the Firefox 3 download site is up and running. Said Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering: “We are currently serving almost 14,000 downloads a minute, which puts us on track to clear 5 to 7 million downloads in one day. The systems are busy, so individual requests may not get through—but are up and serving a tremendous amount of traffic.”
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