Arch Linux

Berticus

Member

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 731

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

Man, are they using different servers for Linux and Windows?  Because on Linux if I go to firefox's page on Mozilla's site, it's blazing fast!  Got there, downloaded the tarball, everything was good and honky dory.  However a couple minutes later when I rebooted in Windows to upgrade, I can't even load the page!  And it's not just this computer, it's the other Windows computer as well.  And I'm not, by any means, on a slow connection.  Anything using traffic, except pidgin and firefox, have been shut off, and I'm on a FiOS connection...

Stalafin

Member

From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 608

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

#!/bin/bash

$VAR1 = 2;
while $VAR1>0;
do    
wget "http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=linux&lang=en-US";
rm `ls -a | grep firefox`;
done;
exit 1;

Made by a friend... xD

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-06-18 12:00:24)

catwell

Member

From: Bretagne, France

Registered: 2008-02-20

Posts: 207

Website

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

This just won't work. Moreover, this will eat bandwidth for nothing.

What is Mozilla doing to make sure the record attempt is valid?

Mozilla will only count downloads that are fully and completely transmitted, not partial or complete updates. We will also discard duplicate downloads with the help of a cookie system. We will be logging our downloads using Apache and these logs will be made available for audit to Guinness World Records™, as well as two judges - Corey Shields and Paul Vixie

It is possible to make a script that would work knowing that, but that's not the aim of this challenge, so don't do it.

Last edited by catwell (2008-06-18 12:39:04)

Raccoon1400

Member

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

Wow. They are up to 7 million!!!

---

Fustrated Windows users have two options.
1. Resort to the throwing of computers out of windows.
2. Resort to the throwing of windows out of computers.

Raccoon1400

Member

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

Man, are they using different servers for Linux and Windows?  Because on Linux if I go to firefox's page on Mozilla's site, it's blazing fast!  Got there, downloaded the tarball, everything was good and honky dory.  However a couple minutes later when I rebooted in Windows to upgrade, I can't even load the page!  And it's not just this computer, it's the other Windows computer as well.  And I'm not, by any means, on a slow connection.  Anything using traffic, except pidgin and firefox, have been shut off, and I'm on a FiOS connection...

When I open the page on linux, I see a button to download it for linux.
When I open it in windows, I see windows downloads.
Maybe they do use different servers, they definitely do something different.

---

Fustrated Windows users have two options.
1. Resort to the throwing of computers out of windows.
2. Resort to the throwing of windows out of computers.

Raccoon1400

Member

From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

Posts: 853

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

Download day just finished.

Total downloads:
8 252 518

EDIT: Dowload Day has stopped but the counter hasn't. My total may not be accurate. Close, though.

Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2008-06-18 18:22:37)

---

Fustrated Windows users have two options.
1. Resort to the throwing of computers out of windows.
2. Resort to the throwing of windows out of computers.

floke

Member

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 266

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

Even the aliens are downloading it!

koch

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 369

Re: Firefox 3 comes out tomorrow. Download it to break a world record.

but they used the ftp-servers so they don't count...