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Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses

Posted by michael on from the extra-extra dept.

Dave writes "The long awaited New York Times ad for Firefox has finally hit the presses. Because of the vast number of donations the ad covered two pages of the newspaper. It's being timed to coincide with 11 million downloads."

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  1. OMG, FP FOR FIRST TIME IN YEARS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its been like four years. Wowwee wow, wow.

  2. WooHoo by pkcs11 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder how many ads IE will have to take out to compete with this?
    Oh, thats right, none.

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  3. NYT'ed? by Folmer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Will the ad give the project more exposure, and where? I guess that most people who read that newspaper already got firefox, or wont let some ad decide what browser they are using (If they were, we would see MS servers all ofer the place...)

  4. Re:That's me! by TopShelf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seymour Butts, is that you? Or is that Mike Hunt? I lost count partway through the line...

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  5. What a rip off! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I paid ten dollars to see my name in the ad and generate a little publicity for myself. I did not expect friggin microprint so that no one will ever read my name.

    What friggin rip off. No one is going to be impressed by this... they won't even know I contributed unless I tell them where to look for my name! I want my $10 back.

  6. Try it under UV Light! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You think that's cool? I got a copy of the paper version of the ad and the image revealed under UV light is pretty cool. I guess they used some kind of special ink (which must've been expensive). Very clever!