3 hours until download day starts – use the mirrors please!
by Christopher Blizzard
3 hours left until download day starts (10am US pacific, 1pm US eastern.)
There are direct ftp links showing up on various sites already. Please don’t give those links to other people because it doesn’t spread the load out to our huge network of mirrors. (Like the one that we just added in Japan that does 4Gb/sec – thank you, Mizukoshi-san!)
[...] took a note from Chris Blizzard and cheated by downloading already by typing out the full URL into a mirror (no, I didn’t use [...]
As of 13:45 Eastern US time, the link emailed to me in Mozilla’s download day alert (linked above) still shows Firefox 2 and offers a test drive of Firefox 3 which is a release candidate. I suspected a caching proxy at my ISP and so added some randomly generated parameters to the URL, but with the same result.
Unsurprisingly, spreadfirefox.com seems to be down altogether as I type this.
You could use Metalinks to put the mirror listings (& other info like checksums) into a machine readable file.
DownThemAll! addon already supports it, & there’s even a patch for Bouncer. :)