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Posted In: Webmaster by Scott Spear

In an attempt to break the world record for most downloads, the traffic generated reiked havoc on both mozilla's main website as well as the spreadfirefox website. For a split second the main website went down and was showing an "http://1.1 Service Unavailable" error (Reminds me of the error seen on the US Amazon.com page a few weeks ago. For coverage on that outage check out this article.). It looks to be back up and was only down for a split second. At the time of this post the spread firefox website was still down.

What's all the hype about?

Firefox 3 is the newest release from Mozilla regarding their web browser, FireFox. You can download your copy at getfirefox.com (as long as that site hasn't been rocked by the traffic surge). The new version boasts a number of improvements, a few of which I have listed below.

• More secure
• Easier to use
• More personal
• Improved developers platform (More info on this here)
• Improved performance

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