Firefox New York Times Ad, Soon

An anonymous reader submits "CNet has an update on the status of the New York Times Firefox ad. According to the article, the delays are largely because of the decision to go with 10,000 names rather than the original 2500. The amount of content means each change to the ad requires 15 minutes of rendering. They also must be careful in crafting the ad, so that stay on the advocacy side of things. As a non-profit, they can still qualify for the under $50,000 rate, but if the ad is too commercial, they would need to pay the $130,000+ business rate. They say they're close to finishing, and the ad should run by mid-December, or at the latest, by Christmas. Firefox is also close to 10,000,000 downloads in the first month of release."

Comments

Re:If they mention using Firefox...

[Anonymous Coward]

BSA is a good cause, just cos they interfere with your stolen softwares doesn't make them bad.

FireFox is Parent friendly

[CrazyJim1]

I use IE but I only browse Slashdot and Yahoo.

For your parents who can get lost in the internet, Firefox is a great way for them to not pickup spyware while they're there.

Re:Power of the masses

[hkmwbz]

"a more active community"

Opera's forum has more members than MozillaZine. And they also have newsgroups and mailing lists in addition...

Re:"non-profit"

[hkmwbz]

"Opera is inflexible"

Opera is inflexible? At least you don't have to restart the entire program to apply a theme. You can create custom menus, toolbars, buttons, and so on, and install them with a single click. Same with skins.

You can get a web dev toolbar which kicks the shite out of anything you find for anything else.

"a good and necessary kick up the arse for those two"

Opera has always been the underdog. It has always innovated.