Pop-idol or buggy browser?

From time to time, I use to check my FeedBurner feeds, mostly to check the number of subscribers (a small ego boost).

This is what I’ve found today:
Weird stats

Well, either I’ve suddenly become a new Blog star (last day number was 22), or there’s something wrong here. I can understand a peak of visits, but this numbers are for feed subscribers.

Most curiously, almost any new subscriber was using Firefox Live Bookmarks. Too much coincidence.

Thinking about it… I’d also add a third option: FeedBurner problem.

Anyway if there are actually 300 of you reading, welcome to all!

UPDATE: It must be a bug, back to normal today
Normal stats

2 thoughts on “Pop-idol or buggy browser?”

It could be due to the prefetching firefox does:

Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.

more here: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php

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Yep. Good point. Thanks!

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