The newly released Firefox 3.0 web browser stirred enough widespread public interest that Mozilla servers have been hard pressed to deal with the traffic loads. Various Mozilla sites experienced service outages throughout Tuesday following the software launch. The company's development blog details the tremendous bandwidth demands.

Thanks to overwhelming demand we’ve passed through 14,000 downloads a minute! This will put us well into the tens of millions of downloads in a 24 hour period if we can sustain it. Each download is about 7MB so that’s around 13 Gigabits/s of just download traffic. Not too shabby!

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