The browser was made available for free download at 1 a.m. PST Tuesday. But by early Tuesday morning, only 45 percent of those who tried to gain access to the Web site were successful, said Stephen Pierzchala, senior analyst at Net performance management firm Gomez. And for those who were lucky enough to gain access, it took an average of 40 seconds to 50 seconds to load the page via a T1 line or better. For popular sites such as Amazon.com and Yahoo, it takes about 4 seconds to load the entire page, he said.
"Firefox is suffering from a success crisis," Pierzchala said. "The bad news is so many people can't get to the site. The good news is its popularity."
The Mozilla Foundation said it had been bracing for a wave of users and took additional precautions prior to the launch.
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- Because the Banks
- don't support it. Most online banking requires IE. Even HP's own partner portal does.
Other than that, it's FF for me.... (Read the rest) - Posted by: htotten Posted on: 11/11/04 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use
Guess no one's interested, right Microsoftians?..
Jeff Spicoli | 11/09/04
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Right, well, not so much...
Real World | 11/09/04
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Why?
CobraA1 | 11/10/04
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Because the Banks
htotten | 11/11/04
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Got mine
TechDiva_z | 11/09/04
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And almost as many...
Michael Kelly | 11/09/04
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You telling me!
The King's Servant | 11/09/04
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Breasy.com a new player in this game
gsoros2 | 11/09/04
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Firefox 1.0 fans clog Mozilla site
Loverock Davidson | 11/09/04
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Got Mine, but Pop-ups are back!
rdwhitti | 11/09/04
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Re: Got Mine, but Pop-ups are back!
stevo32 | 11/10/04
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Maybe the script kiddies
FilledOut | 11/10/04
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