Fist of all you couldn't know at what time of the day you could have begun downloading, I had to go to the forum to discover that the launch time was established for 10.00am PST (17.00 UTC, 19.00 here in Italy).
The servers got down 9 minutes after the launch.
The official page was returned error for more than one hour, and then it loaded in a fancy way (i just made one screenshot, but i've seen that page loaded in worse ways). Please note in the screenshot the
<<<< mine ======word at the top of the page and the version details shown in the button to download Firefox 3.
I quote a comment seen on Slashdot: "Awesome ... 9 minutes after they open the gates and the site is already offline ... I guess its good they make web browsers and not web servers."
