Comments on: Firefox 3 release on Tuesday 17th June http://www.dragonthoughts.com/blog/2008/06/16/firefox-3-release-on-tuesday-17th-june/ Updates and news about dragonthoughts.com and a few friends Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:34:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dclarke http://www.dragonthoughts.com/blog/2008/06/16/firefox-3-release-on-tuesday-17th-june/#comment-135 dclarke Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:14:50 +0000 http://www.dragonthoughts.com/blog/?p=87#comment-135 As suspected, at around 17:00 GMT, when Firefox 3 was scheduled for release, the web servers at Mozilla.com seem to be overloaded, or to have fallen over. Either this is because of a huge number of people attempting to download Firefox as soon as it was released, or a Denial of Service attack by Microsoft Internet Explorer supporters. For an number of reasons, I suspect it is really the first option. As suspected, at around 17:00 GMT, when Firefox 3 was scheduled for release, the web servers at Mozilla.com seem to be overloaded, or to have fallen over.

Either this is because of a huge number of people attempting to download Firefox as soon as it was released, or a Denial of Service attack by Microsoft Internet Explorer supporters.

For an number of reasons, I suspect it is really the first option.

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