Gran Paradiso

On 18th June 2008 @ 12:56 am by Arul N S

Finally the day has arrived and final release of Firefox 3 is out on open and IE is getting its butt kicked left and right.

Mozilla Foundation had conducted its PR greatly but the execution was poor. First the time of release was not officially announced and all the eastern hemisphere netizens had to guess the whole day when Firefox 3 was getting out and finally it dawned that it would be midnight for most. The time came and when I went will all anticipation, all I got was server time outs and after a few reloads and refreshes, I was met with this sweet outage page.

Firefox Server Outage

OK this was not a great surprise since everybody was trying, the Mozilla servers were melting with the load. But the real surprise was when after nearly an hour of reloading the browser, I finally met with a page to download Firefox but alas it was Firefox 2. The page design was for Firefox 3, but the release was 2.0.0.14

Firefox 3 but 2

So after another disappointment, I got back to reloading, refreshing and after nearly another one hour got the sweet link for a download and installed it finally. Did another download in my other system and finally got it also up and running.

mozilla-firefox-3-release-notes

So after doing my duty to the Mozilla’s Community decided to check out how the Download day was going on. The total downloads till 00:45 GST on 18th June 2008 was 1,861,546 downloads. UAE - 1480, Afghanistan - 0, Iraq - 62, Mynammar - 0, Iran - 6422, Sudan - 54, Somalia - 0, Cuba - 414, Oman - 0, Mongolia - 0, North Korea - 0

For who needs to show around that they did their part on the download day, you can flaunt it here. You will get a certificate like this one below.

Update : The time is 10:30 AM on 18th June 2008, nearly 12 hours after the launch of Firefox 3 and the stastics for the downloads are as below

Total Downloads : 4,462,863

UAE - 2400, Afghanistan - 62, Iraq - 101, Mynammar - 211, Iran - 133,500, Sudan - 73, Somalia - Still 0, Cuba - 557, Oman - 212, Mongolia -281, North Korea - Still 0, Chad - 0,