Firefox Promo Videos

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."

Comments

This is slashdot so...

[Minwee]

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?

Wildfire

[hotdiggitydawg]

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.

Re:Wildfire

[COMON$]

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.

Starting small...

[CajunElder]

"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.

404

[Anonymous Coward]

404 - Funny not found

the ultimate irony

[gmr2048]

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

This is why its good to be a nerd

[PopeAlien]

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

Re:Can't handle the load?

[Curtman]

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)

Re:Can't handle the load?

[ReverendLoki]

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)

You're thinking of

[crush]

FirefoXXX

Totally offtopic....

[XMyth]

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.

Re:Totally offtopic....

[IceAgeComing]

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?

Re:Totally offtopic....

[snorklewacker]

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

Re:Can't handle the load?

[ZB Mowrey]

You mean there are women on slashdot?

Not funny.

[itomato]

"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!

N is left handed?

[lullabud]

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