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Firefox Promo Videos

Posted by Zonk on from the talking-up-the-fox dept.

sebFlyte writes "Last week Mozilla Europe launched some extremely funny promotional videos for Firefox and ZDNet is reporting that they're spreading across the net like wildfire." From the article: "This is just the beginning -- I only posted it on my personal blog and it's already spreading nicely...We wanted to start small as we were concerned that servers wouldn't be able to handle the load."

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  1. This is slashdot so... by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can't be the only one who read that as "Firefox Porno Videos".

    Wasn't porn the whole reason that people wanted a better web browser in the first place?

    1. Re:This is slashdot so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Haha I read that too and thought, you fucking sad nerdy bastards. Then I read it again, realised what it really was, and thought the same thing.

  2. first impressions by uberjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I first glanced at this story I thought it said Firefox porno videos. Hot browser sex! IE and Foxy FF go on safari!

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  3. Wildfire by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 5, Funny

    We wanted to start small as we were concerned that servers wouldn't be able to handle the load.

    Welcome to slashdot. Now it's spreading like the fire inside the case of your webserver.

    1. Re:Wildfire by COMON$ · · Score: 4, Funny

      thanks to the mineral oil PCs discussed yesterday we can now refer to the slashdot effect as the deep fry effect. break out the batter, fish, beer, invite some friends, and submit your website to slashdot.

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  4. Starting small... by CajunElder · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We wanted to start small as we were concerned that servers wouldn't be able to handle the load."

    I'm sure a post to Slashdot is going to help.

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  5. 404 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    404 - Funny not found

  6. the ultimate irony by gmr2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couldn't get the videos to work in Firefox 1.0.4 (with Flashblock installed). I clicked on the Flashblock "play" button, but then got only audio, no video. I had to open the page in IE to see them. Oh the humanity.

    -gary

    1. Re:the ultimate irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      I had to open the page in IE to see them. Oh the humanity.

      It's a targeted audience.

  7. This is why its good to be a nerd by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Funny

    See - this just goes to show: popularity is bad!
    I always knew it was best to toil in obscurity!

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  8. Re:Can't handle the load? by Curtman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posted right in the middle of the US lunch hours no less.

    Some of us are in different time zones you insensitive clod.

    (Sorry, it's been a while since I've seen an insensitive clod accusation)

  9. Re:Can't handle the load? by ReverendLoki · · Score: 4, Funny
    Some of us are in different time zones you insensitive clod.

    Some of us are insensitive clods you... er... yeah

    (That should help hold you over)

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  10. You're thinking of by crush · · Score: 5, Funny

    FirefoXXX

  11. Foxy Cleopatra by DanCentury · · Score: 2, Funny

    The key to Firefox reaching the masses it to appeal to the lowest common denominators: sex and fear. You can sell it via fear, by touting better security (there's not a lot in the mainstream press to prove that to the average Joe, but...).

    With sex, you could set Beyonce aka Foxy Cleopatra to do a commerical. Get it, "Foxy"? Maybe OG Pam "Foxy Brown" Grier?

    Or maybe a sexy anthropomorphic cartoon lady fox? Eh? Maybe? A sexy cartoon lady fox would be better than the "non-anthropomorphic fox soul-kissing the earth" which is what the logo looks like now. (That comment just bough me a Score of -1)

  12. Re:Grr... by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 2, Funny

    They're trying to keep the Google:Firefox ratio ar 1:1.

  13. Totally offtopic.... by XMyth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahh yes...the things porn leads us to learn about computers....

    - Mastering file/directory filesystems.
    - Encryption
    - Clearing recently used documents
    - Splitting partitions (What's this K: drive, Jimmy?)
    - Writing filename obfusactors (using a password as an encryption seed no-less!)
    - Wiping all trails of browsing for a day, cookies, cache, history, etc..
    - Keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab, Alt+Space, N, Win+D, Alt+F4.
    - Tabbed browsing, sweet sweet tabbed browsing.
    - Popup blockers, minimizing your pr0n is useless when HOT YOUNG TEEN VIRGINS banners popup afterwards!
    - Back when those XXX password sites actually WORKED! (AdultChecks/AdultBouncers were easy to come by!)
    - Going on IRC to find those FTP servers and/or DCC bots with 5 to 1 ratios ! 4300 cps baby!

    This is just off the top of my head too...seriously.

    1. Re:Totally offtopic.... by IceAgeComing · · Score: 5, Funny

      Keyboard shortcuts like Alt+Tab, Alt+Space, N, Win+D, Alt+F4.

      Funny how they're all for the left hand.

      Coincidence? More discrimination against left-handers? Or...something else?

    2. Re:Totally offtopic.... by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm a right-hander but .. hey wait, I am not going to have this discussion...

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    3. Re:Totally offtopic.... by Noxx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ahhhh...the benefits of being ambidextrous. So much better being able to handle the mouse with either hand.

      Yes, I said mouse. WTF are *you* thinking? :)

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    4. Re:Totally offtopic.... by WWWWolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      And here I am today, deeply pondering and re-reviewing the underlying design and capabilities of my web app which uses flexible relation-based metadata (kept in PostgreSQL) and simple, yet powerful frontend (made with Ruby on Rails), providing extensible, flexible, easy to maintain, user-friendly system with rich front end, good editing capabilities, and multi-user security and collaborative features... (basically the whole boatload of buzzwords and there's more where it came from...) ...for storing furry images.

      The application is shaping up really nicely. Probably going to rock for any purpose if you have tons of drawings and other artwork to archive, and tag the heck out of everything. I just kept wondering how the heck I'm going to explain people these various porr-noggg-raphy-related fields. But knowing that people do code sophisticated software for these purposes as well, I guess I'll just mention those features with straight face. =)

    5. Re:Totally offtopic.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wheeze .... Oh to have been 15 in the era of Python.
      I remember hacking around on the C64 to figure out how to rename the images on strip poker.

  14. Re:Can't handle the load? by ZB+Mowrey · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean there are women on slashdot?

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  15. Not funny. by itomato · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Extremely funny". Who checks this crap?

    Extremely lame. It's like they thought, "Hey, let's get CRAZY!!" then they forgot where they were going with it.

    Let's get CRAZY!! WHOO! now we're all CRAZY!! Now what? Oh I know! Let's end here!

    Hey! Know what'll *really* slay 'em? She takes a BITE out of her CELL PHONE, and DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE!! How CRAZY is that?! Whoo!

  16. N is left handed? by lullabud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only a pr0n surfer would say that the letter N is a left-handed keystroke.

  17. Re:url for actual swf files by lolocaust · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//bure au1.swf

    Ahh, Goatse.

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  18. Re:Congratulations! by mandrake*rpgdx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry. You don't deserve proper grammar. Now go chew on a log, fuckface.

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  19. Rejected ads by zrk · · Score: 2, Funny

    These were deemed too unsavory

    Bedroom

    Late night, guy surfing, withthe only illumination coming from the screen. Moaning noises coming from the computer (pr0n implied). Closes with 'touch the difference'

    Bathroom

    Woman, seated, gets this bug-eye expression while scribbling with her stylus. Ends with 'smell the difference'

  20. Re:Can't handle the load? by isorox · · Score: 2, Funny

    right in the middle of the US lunch hours no less.

    The continental US covers 4 time zones. With a 4 hour lunch no wonder you're all so fat!