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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. Re:Got my father switched today by L0neW0lf · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  2. Coral cache ... ? by Z-MaxX · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can try the Coral cached version:

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

    so why the hell didn't they make it a bittorrent link?

    Why the hell didn't they update the bittorrent link you mean.

  4. url for actual swf files by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//port able1.swf

    http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//jeun e1.swf

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

  5. Re:the ultimate irony by stanleypane · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.exe -safe-mode
    or...
    ./firefox -safe-mode
    or...
    ./firefox-bin -safe-mode

    Depending on your operating system, one of those will work.

  6. Re:How did they author the videos? by justforaday · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

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  7. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ive setup a mirror here, with the actual .swf files.
    http://www.kore-net.com/funnyfox/

  8. Re:This is why its good to be a nerd by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's what a BitTorrent link is for.

  9. torrent link by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean like this one?

  10. or... by rbochan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pornzilla ;o)

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