Firefox 1.0 fans clog Mozilla site

The Mozilla Foundation's Web site was brought to a near standstill as it suffered what one analyst called a "success crisis" following the launch of open-source browser Firefox 1.0.

The browser was made available for free download at 1 a.m. PST Tuesday. But by early Tuesday morning, only 45 percent of those who tried to gain access to the Web site were successful, said Stephen Pierzchala, senior analyst at Net performance management firm Gomez. And for those who were lucky enough to gain access, it took an average of 40 seconds to 50 seconds to load the page via a T1 line or better. For popular sites such as Amazon.com and Yahoo, it takes about 4 seconds to load the entire page, he said.

"Firefox is suffering from a success crisis," Pierzchala said. "The bad news is so many people can't get to the site. The good news is its popularity."

The Mozilla Foundation said it had been bracing for a wave of users and took additional precautions prior to the launch.

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Actually, they do provide BitTorrent downloads

by Kelson November 9, 2004 2:45 PM PST

Actually, they do provide BitTorrent downloads

The trick is finding the torrents, which are currently buried on their Mozilla FTP site. I've had trouble downloading the installer by FTP, but the torrent files are small enough it's worked. Just in case, I set up a mirror of the torrents for the English-language installers on my blog at Blazing Firefox.

(I really wish there was a preview function, or at least something that would tell me whether I can use HTML on this.)

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[Kelson]

Actually, they do provide BitTorrent downloads

The trick is finding the torrents, which are currently buried on their Mozilla FTP site. I've had trouble downloading the installer by FTP, but the torrent files are small enough it's worked. Just in case, I set up a mirror of the torrents for the English-language installers on my blog at Blazing Firefox.

(I really wish there was a preview function, or at least something that would tell me whether I can use HTML on this.)