Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day

**TNT Bot** · Jun 18, 2008, 09:07am

Kolargol00 writes "An outage affected the Mozilla.com website on the day the organisation launched its Guinness World Record attempt for downloads of the new Firefox 3 browser. The mozilla.com site was unreachable from around the world, occasionally responding with the message, "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"." Since they decided to run their day from 1pm to 1pm eastern time, the download day is actually still going, so you can still get firefox and be part of the record.

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**APK** · 02:07pm

And, it's already got "security holes" in it, hours after its release: http://secunia.com/advisories/30761/ Opera 9.50, also newly released? Has NO SUCH security issues, & still is @ a total of 0% KNOWN UNPATCHED SECURITY VULNERABILITIES...

PLUS, I am testing FF3, right now as I write this, on THIS website... & have had issues with it already (mainly in logging in, once you are inside a topic already & trying to reply here - it won't let you see the "password" field, but it DOES let you see the "username" field, IF you are inside a topic trying to reply - the "workaround" is to hit the MAIN forums section & then login, because then it lets you see the "username" AND "password" fields) Opera 9.50 also gets the formatting right on this forums, & also does NOT give me a hardtime on logging into a post to reply (where FF3 omits the pwd field) either... Opera's faster, more secure, & just overall BETTER, just based on history AND what I am seeing as "messed up" so far, in FF3... APK P.S.=> Also, upon replies? FF3 seems to omit placing in , same as enter key keypress (carriage return + linefeed) & sets the formatting of posts all "willy-nilly", as far as I am concerned... apk

**APK** · 03:06pm

Same reply, done in Opera 9.50 (for posterities' sake, & to illustrate ONE of the issues I have on this forums board engine, using FireFox 3, by way of comparison):

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And, it's already got "security holes" in it, hours after its release:

http://secunia.com/advisories/30761/

Opera 9.50, also newly released? Has NO SUCH security issues, & still is @ a total of 0% KNOWN UNPATCHED SECURITY VULNERABILITIES...

PLUS, I am testing FF3, right now as I write this, on THIS website... & have had issues with it already (mainly in logging in, once you are inside a topic already & trying to reply here - it won't let you see the "password" field, but it DOES let you see the "username" field, IF you are inside a topic trying to reply - the "workaround" is to hit the MAIN forums section & then login, because then it lets you see the "username" AND "password" fields)!

Opera 9.50 also gets the formatting right on this forums, & also does NOT give me a hardtime on logging into a post to reply (where FF3 omits the pwd field) either...

Opera's faster, more secure, & just overall BETTER, just based on history AND what I am seeing as "messed up" so far, in FF3...

APK

P.S.=> Also, upon replies? FF3 seems to omit placing in , same as enter key keypress (carriage return + linefeed) & sets the formatting of posts all "willy-nilly", as far as I am concerned... as you can see here? I am NOT getting my paragraph breaks inserted as they SHOULD be, using FF3... (my initials & P.S. for instance, are ALWAYS in diff. paragraphs when I post)... apk

Jun 23, 2008, 01:45pm	#2 (permalink) Re: Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
APK Elite Member Posts: 354 Name: The Duke of URL Karma:	And, it's already got "security holes" in it, hours after its release: http://secunia.com/advisories/30761/ Opera 9.50, also newly released? Has NO SUCH security issues, & still is @ a total of 0% KNOWN UNPATCHED SECURITY VULNERABILITIES... PLUS, I am testing FF3, right now as I write this, on THIS website... & have had issues with it already (mainly in logging in, once you are inside a topic already & trying to reply here - it won't let you see the "password" field, but it DOES let you see the "username" field, IF you are inside a topic trying to reply - the "workaround" is to hit the MAIN forums section & then login, because then it lets you see the "username" AND "password" fields) Opera 9.50 also gets the formatting right on this forums, & also does NOT give me a hardtime on logging into a post to reply (where FF3 omits the pwd field) either... Opera's faster, more secure, & just overall BETTER, just based on history AND what I am seeing as "messed up" so far, in FF3... APK P.S.=> Also, upon replies? FF3 seems to omit placing in , same as enter key keypress (carriage return + linefeed) & sets the formatting of posts all "willy-nilly", as far as I am concerned... apk __________________ "I'm Reese: Sgt. TechComVN38416, assigned to protect you - You've been TARGETTED FOR TERMINATION!" Last edited by APK; Jun 23, 2008 at 02:07pm.

Jun 24, 2008, 02:53pm	#3 (permalink) Re: Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
APK Elite Member Posts: 354 Name: The Duke of URL Karma:	Same reply, done in Opera 9.50 (for posterities' sake, & to illustrate ONE of the issues I have on this forums board engine, using FireFox 3, by way of comparison): ------------------------------------ And, it's already got "security holes" in it, hours after its release: http://secunia.com/advisories/30761/ Opera 9.50, also newly released? Has NO SUCH security issues, & still is @ a total of 0% KNOWN UNPATCHED SECURITY VULNERABILITIES... PLUS, I am testing FF3, right now as I write this, on THIS website... & have had issues with it already (mainly in logging in, once you are inside a topic already & trying to reply here - it won't let you see the "password" field, but it DOES let you see the "username" field, IF you are inside a topic trying to reply - the "workaround" is to hit the MAIN forums section & then login, because then it lets you see the "username" AND "password" fields)! Opera 9.50 also gets the formatting right on this forums, & also does NOT give me a hardtime on logging into a post to reply (where FF3 omits the pwd field) either... Opera's faster, more secure, & just overall BETTER, just based on history AND what I am seeing as "messed up" so far, in FF3... APK P.S.=> Also, upon replies? FF3 seems to omit placing in , same as enter key keypress (carriage return + linefeed) & sets the formatting of posts all "willy-nilly", as far as I am concerned... as you can see here? I am NOT getting my paragraph breaks inserted as they SHOULD be, using FF3... (my initials & P.S. for instance, are ALWAYS in diff. paragraphs when I post)... apk __________________ "I'm Reese: Sgt. TechComVN38416, assigned to protect you - You've been TARGETTED FOR TERMINATION!" Last edited by APK; Jun 24, 2008 at 03:06pm.

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Jun 18, 2008, 09:07am	#1 (permalink) Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day
TNT Bot Elite Member Posts: 4,287 Karma:	Kolargol00 writes "An outage affected the Mozilla.com website on the day the organisation launched its Guinness World Record attempt for downloads of the new Firefox 3 browser. The mozilla.com site was unreachable from around the world, occasionally responding with the message, "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"." Since they decided to run their day from 1pm to 1pm eastern time, the download day is actually still going, so you can still get firefox and be part of the record. Read more of this story at Slashdot. </img> More...