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Story: Firefox 3 is released for download

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Firefox 3 Missed Download Day Entirely.

I registered with Firefox to be informed so that I could add the downloads I need on several different home PCs on download day.
I was online at around 4am on the 17th and when I tried using 'Help' and 'Check For Updates' I was told that there were no updates at all. I got the same message on each machine. If Firefox were aiming at a World record for the 17th, then they should have had it ready to download as soon as Australia and Asia reached midnight and then it should have been available across Russia and Europe in all our time zones after midnight - and of course, onwards for North America and finally the Pacific. It would have been a proper 24 hour period across the globe.
When I tried in the afternoon and evening to get a download direct from Firefox, I was advised that there was an RU failure and that I could update manually. The update then offered was Firefox 2, which I had already got. So, it was impossible all day to obtain the new version and they failed to achieve their objective, because even to those users who had registered with them, it was impossible to obtain the update. Today, all my PCs advise me that my version of Firefox is up to date and that there are no updates. It would appear that maye this hasn't been the launch that they had hoped for.
As long as the new product is good, then no-one will worry about the deadline at all. The launch date was made 'a big thing' by Firefox, but they were unable to sustain the demand for it. I daresay that I could have downloaded Firefox 3 from yourselves, Zdnnet yesterday or from one of the PC magazine websites such as Computeractive, but would that have been included in their own 'countdown' of uploads??
So, I await until Firefox officially do tell me that version 3 can be downloaded. Sadly, they could not sustain demand though and they did not make it available either, even in the small hours.

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