I signed up to Firefox’s Download Day, world record attempt a few weeks ago, and was pleased to get the “download it now” email last night.

I’m assuming the attempt’s going well for them, as the servers seemed to have taken a major kicking, and I was completely unable to download the new version. I’ll try again when I get in tonight though, but I imagine I’ll be pushing my luck to make it within the 24hr window. I’ve been using the release candidates pretty much exclusively for a while now, so I’m looking forward to having the final version at last (although I believe its identical to the last release candidate).

I read as well, that there’s been various other problems, with people getting corrupted downloads, or the wrong version being downloaded.

Something like this was always going to entail a fair amount of carnage. The number of people trying to download the software at the same time was always going to result in a few horror stories. I’m happy to just get the update as soon as I can, and hopefully they’ll get a high number for the record books.

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