Media Mandible

Here’s a video of my various failed attempts to download Firefox 3, despite all indicators that it should be easy.

It’s worth mentioning that, most likely, this was a web caching issue. It wasn’t just my local cache, though, because I IMd a friend across town before I made this video, and he too saw the FF2 pages. Also, the map page was showing “downloads” rather than “pledges,” even while the other pages were still showing FF2 as the main download.

It may have been as simple as someone at Mozilla forgetting to clear their cache, or perhaps they cleared it too late in the day, and the message didn’t propogate to the edge servers near me until later than it should have. This is not a horrible thing, and a few minutes after I posted the video, I started to see the correct pages in my browser. (I’m typing this addendum in Firefox 3.)

My frustration at not getting FF3 as soon as it was promised came only out of the fact that I was so eager for it. Now that it’s here, I’m happy. (The download numbers still trouble me a bit, though.)