Starts at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern. Which is NOW! - Shey

Firefox3 page is a bit slow right now. Maybe I'll go and download IE instead ;) - benedikt

Full URL fail, spreadfirefox, getfirefox, and mozilla are all unavailable lol - tsudohnimh via twhirl

So Mozilla shows us they are popular.... and that they can't manage a launch event. - Gerard van Schip

It's like waiting in line at Starbucks people...you're waiting for a reason - Jason Kintzler

Would be fun if Mozilla publishes network and server stats after this event, should be fun to watch. - Gerard van Schip

I can't get at any of the download pages I know. mozilla.com, getfirefox.com both highly unresponsive. - Voyagerfan5761

@Gerard van Schip: that's what I was thinking. Maybe two world records at once? - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

People need to realise that the record attempt is for a 24 hour period. Whether they launch at midnight, noon, or any other time of the day, it would make no difference! - Tony Ruscoe via fftogo

I had a feeling this was going to happen... surely they would've planned for this, right? - Johan Lieu

I suppose I'll wait a few hours until the initial rush is over...right now it's pointless to refresh - Bwana McCall

That's what happens when 5 million people try to download something at once. - Erick Schonfeld

@Tony Ruscoe: The point is is that it would be awesome to be one of the first. - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

Tony, that's why it should've started in the middle of the night for what's presumably the largest install base (the United States). The people who are going to download it right away would've stayed up to download it, and they wouldn't be attempting to download it at the same time as all the other people who wouldn't have stayed up. If I had to guess, this was a move to say "in addition to breaking/even though we didn't break the 24 hour download record, look how many people downloaded it in the 1st hour!" - Mark Trapp

The connection was reset, great, so much for trying to download FF3 - Bob Ngu via twhirl

@Jake: My comment was in reference to the original blog post, which said Mozilla should've given themselves some running room by starting at the beginning of the day in order to hit the 5 million target for the record... - Tony Ruscoe via fftogo

You think they would have figuered on getting hammered....awesome job! ;) - John Crosby via twhirl

I would love to participate in the world record, but all the Firefox download pages are down. : ( - Jess Lee

Direct download links http://friendfeed.com/e/1392bd... - Bwana McCall

Managed to snag it from the FTP site, but not sure that counts towards the record. Will grab it again later when it's up properly. - Richard Bradshaw

http://download.mozilla.org/?p... - Richard Bradshaw

hard to set a record if we can't download it.. - Adriano Gonçalves

The rest of the direct download links, courtesy of Bwana McCall: http://friendfeed.com/e/1392bd... - Voyagerfan5761

re: Bwana URLs, don't do it, it download RC3, not the final version - Bob Ngu via twhirl

What's the MD5 of the final? With Fx2, the final RC was identical to the final. - Richard Bradshaw

I thought the latest version version before today was RC2? - Shey

There was a quick RC3 release to fix a couple problems on the Mac. - Mark Trapp

@Bob: I got "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe". Sounds like a final to me. - Voyagerfan5761

@Voyagerfan, I got that too, its only later on in the install process that it said RC3 - Bob Ngu

What's the MD5? I think it's c971bb2273d24d62dd15dcdbd6030ea3 for the final. - Richard Bradshaw

Still no FF3 for Mac download.... poor! - Gerard van Schip

way to stumble out of the gate with your major promotional effort, Mozilla...it's ok, I still love you. - Chieze Okoye

http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors... but they still have the "not yet" message up on some of the mirrors. - cmiper

I've gotten it to load and it still says FF2 - Stefan Hayden

Host not available - FAIL. - Shawn L. Morrissey

Predictable, it seems. You set a goal for massive volumes of downloads, your servers will be hugely taxed. - Hutch Carpenter

Yep, finally got through and still showing FF2, what gives - Bob Ngu via twhirl

Has anyone actually downloaded it yet? It's 17mins in. - Rahsheen Porter

Fail for me as well!! - Joe Dawson

Yeah kinda, but BSG doesn't deal as much with 'roles' as 'characters'. The chain of command is important, and who has what relationship with who, but it's less important who's in operations and science and flight. Also, BSG's overarching story arc makes it more important to for attachments to characters. ST-TNG throws in different crew members every episode, often never to be seen again, so we can't spend precious minutes learning about who they are. We see 'Blue shirt' and know they're in Science, or 'Red shirt' and know they're going to die. - Kevin Fox

I started reading this and kept thinking over and over "red shirt reference c'mon red shirt reference THERE IT IS!" ha. I think it made it easier for Star Trek to talk about topical issues with aliens; it's not the communists, it's the Klingons, or it's not the Serbians, it's the Cardassians. I disagree about the focus of Star Trek: it's major problem with ratings is the lack of individual interactions; everything is about a big picture keynote topic for the episode or story arc. - Mark Trapp

On BSG I have a harder time keeping up with who is human or Cylon. - Michael VanDervort via fftogo

On Babylon 5 I had a hard time keeping track of which actors came from Star Trek and which came from Tron. - Kevin Fox

And let's not even start on how the actors from Farscape have spread themselves across the sci-fi universe. - Slippy Lane

Parallel evolution is about as likely as, say, interstellar travel at FTL speeds ;-) - Slippy Lane

@Michael True dat, but so do they. - Cyndy

Farscape killed SG1 - Alejandro S.

I don't if you meant it Kevin but this question is really deep and being myself someone who believes that _analogies_ rule the creativity, I think that this question should apply to our lives, friendfeed, and many things in design and creation in general. t'was inspiring. Thanks. - directeur

I need a *super-like* button here. Seriously. This image is so awesome, I don't want to lose it. - possible248

Super like! That image is way cool. - Sally Church