mkjones

I really wanted to download Firefox 3 yesterday. I waited all day for the update to appear on the website but nothing came so I logged off for the day, went to the pool and then relaxed with Euro 2008 for the evening.

Today I noticed that I had this email:

Check the time, go on, it says 6:35 PM last night. Now, I wasn’t online at this time. I was neck deep in chlorine infested water trying to work out why the pool was so busy for a Tuesday night.

Anyway, my point is they failed. I wanted to be part of the Firefox 3 download day thing but they messed up by sending the notification email at a truly stupid time when clearly between 9-5 would have been the sensible choice.

What they should have done is mailed me 2 days ago with a link to the site of a UK based (fast) download and the time at which they were planning to allow downloads to start. THEN I could have scheduled my time to at least check my email before I let the day end.

Hell, they could have even opened up a torrent file on the site so I could set it going and left it to download the file when they started seeding.

Unfortunately I won’t be upgrading to FF3 today. Or tomorrow actually. Not because of this scheduling mishap but because it seems that a few key add-ons which I use daily are not yet compatible.

Not that I won’t download it. In fact, if I download it from work AND then from home, does that count as 2?