The good news is that I’ve now done my bit for Firefox’s Download Day. I managed to nab it when I got home, just in time (I think there’s only half an hour or so left before time’s called on the record attempt).

In terms of using it, its pretty much the Beta 5 I’ve been running happily. Its a lot faster than v2.0 and definitely recommended to any other Firefox users out there.

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.