{"id":465,"date":"2008-06-17T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2008-06-17T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T17:23:55","slug":"firefox-30-download-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/firefox-30-download-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3.0 Download Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s finally here. I was all set to do my part with helping them attain the nonsensical <em>world record<\/em> download numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Both Lois and I use Firefox as our primary browsers, and I have an ancient laptop that I occasionally use in a hotel room that I was going to upgrade, and one other one that I sometimes use as a guest machine. So, I was about to legitimately download it four times (I hate all manners of ballot stuffing, so I wouldn&#8217;t download multiple times just to up the count!).<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, 10am PDT came, and the Mozilla site is 100% unresponsive. Way to plan for a world record!<\/p>\n<p>Fully 15 minutes later, when you would think they would have been aware of the problem and would have switched to <strong>Plan B<\/strong> (they did have a Plan B, no?!?), the site is still pathetically slow (at least it finally loads!), but amazingly, it still only offers the link to Firefox 2.0.0.14!<\/p>\n<p>How embarrassing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll still download it when I can, because I love the product, and everything I&#8217;ve read about version 3.0 makes me want it, so I have no desire to punish them, or cut my nose off to spite my face, but this one definitely goes in the pile of monumental screw-ups&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s finally here. I was all set to do my part with helping them attain the nonsensical world record download numbers. Both Lois and I use Firefox as our primary browsers, and I have an ancient laptop that I occasionally use in a hotel room that I was going to upgrade, and one other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[235,245,196],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-3","category-2","tag-computers","tag-customer-service","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}