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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."
Slashdotted already, 15 seconds after first post!
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Yeah... ok. So I guess a few kiddies might get a kick out of it.
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I agree...however, I think Firefox still has some minor hurdles to overcome in this department.
Not in usability, Firefox certainly has that. However, you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows. You can't get an upgrade patch for Firefox just a whole new version (Though admittedly the download is far smaller than IE). I've also found that if you have Auto-Update on it may take several days to inform you of an update, which concerns me if 0-day exploits with the browser become a problem (I also think "Check For Updates" should be an option off the Help drop-down menu).
I think Firefox is great, and it's my browser of choice...but I think they could polish it just a little more for the average user.
Never look down your nose at others. Someday, someone is bound to see your boogers.
http://funnyfox.org.nyud.net:8090/
Which loads fine for me, but the Flash animations just show "-21474..." or something in the middle of a black empty rectangle. I wonder if the .swf file is trying to request another resource on the funnyfox.org server? Instead of using a relative URL?
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Slashdotted already. :(
/.'d? 10 minutes after your post, all 3 videos loaded promptly for me.
.. 'see the difference'
did you try or just try to jump in and claim it has been
they're really not that good to be honest. you aint missing much.
my summary:
Office
Guy staring at his computer screaming.. closes with 'feel the difference'
Mobile
Young woman staring at home computer. picks up her mobile phone in place of her other snack and takes a bight out of it. chews it up. closes with 'taste the difference'
Notebook
guy sitting on couch with notebook computer. his head pops off and lands on the notebooks keyboard area.
so why the hell didn't they make it a bittorrent link?
Why the hell didn't they update the bittorrent link you mean.
http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//port able1.swf
n e1.swf
e au1.swf
http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//jeu
http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//bur
Some of us are in different time zones you insensitive clod.
Note the 's' in 'hours.' Not that I'm not an insensitive clod, I just figured the average slashdotter smart enough to figure it out on her own.
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There is an executable flag for running Firefox without any third party add-ons activated. Simply add -safe-mode to the end of the executable that starts firefox:
./firefox -safe-mode
./firefox-bin -safe-mode
firefox.exe -safe-mode
or...
or...
Depending on your operating system, one of those will work.
Apparently 1.1 includes a far nicer update handler.
I want 1.1, because at the moment I have 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 in my add/remove programs list.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
"...you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows." I hear this is fixed on the latest version; you can now use the autoupdate to update FF, without getting two entries on Add/Remove programs. However, i don't use windows, so i cannot verify that. But you could try it.
VStrider.
They're Flash files with video as the content. Go check out the trial copy of Sorenson Squeeze for an idea of what options you have for this sort of compression. Aside from it being evil evil Flash, it's really not bad...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Ive setup a mirror here, with the actual .swf files.
http://www.kore-net.com/funnyfox/
That's what a BitTorrent link is for.
You mean like this one?
Maybe something like this?
Pornzilla ;o)
...Rob
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I also thought they were dumb as hell. Usually I look forward to advertisements by alternative type tech companies like apple, etc because they are inventive. Oh well, it is free afterall...
Nope, you have a sense of humor (I remember).. These ads just sucked.
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