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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."
Interesting, I didn't even get them knowing what Firefox is. At best, they are lame. As this is only one person's opinion, take it with a grain of salt of course.
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"Wasn't porn the whole reason that people wanted a better web browser in the first place?"
Yes, actaully.
Way back in the day, what got me on the web was the fact that Netscape included a USENET reader that could handle inline UUEncoded files. More specifically JPEG. Had I gotten on the Internet any later than I did (91), I wouldn't know anywhere near as much about Unix as I do now. Having to figure out how to make PINE to launch a shell so I could compile tintin and have less limited access to USENET (their default reader had no subscribe feature and only "approved" groups) ended up being the major foundations of a later career.
Who says porn is bad for you.
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Overall, I was impressed. Technical slashdotters, please elaborate. Thanx.
What, you mean it doesn't make you blind and deaf?!
... "Haven't heard," "hearing loss," get it?! I'm here all week.
On a more serious note, it can render you night blind, because each time you ejaculate you get rid of about 5 mg of zinc (which is found in high quantities in semen), but the latter is essential to bringing vitamin A to the eyes, and its deficiency can cause night blindness.
Zinc is also found in high quantities in cereals, so if you wank 3 times per day (as one of my friends does, not joking), you may want to increase your intake of zinc. Google is your friend.
Haven't heard anything as far as masturbation causing hearing loss goes
By the way, frequent masturbation, hence ejaculation, decreases the risk of prostate cancer because each ejaculation rids the prostate of the crap that causes the cancer.
Plus, unless you're a die hard Catholic, ejaculation is a morale boost.
Personally, I just made a switch from IE to Firefox. I like FF a lot, it reminds me of Safari. I use to have a G4 and I fell in love with the Safari browser. I later sold my G4 and went a long time without a computer. I'm a PC tech, and I need to hate having PC's at home b/c all I do is work on them. Now I have a 75% built windows machine to surf the web and run Doom3. Other than that I don't use my PC.
My thoughts are though, since Billy has up'd the release of IE 7, I am sure he is going to make it a FF killer. I'm positive things like tabbed browsing and some other goodies are going to be in the new version. In addition, I wonder if Microsoft may use some of the same marketing ideas that FF is now using? MS is already showing the new Xbox 360 on MTV, could we see similar things with the new flavor of IE? Maybe they will reinvent their paradigm and try to reach users who have switched to FF and bring them back to the dark side?
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Anyone notice in the first video that she appears to be using an old one-button Apple mouse and keyboard?
Let's hope the folks at Firefox take some of the money this may generate and hire a more current "supporting actor."
I agree with you totally. In fact, I know what firefox does - use it every day - but I am mystified by these ads. For example, are the people in the ads screaming and having their heads blown off because they just tried firefox and think it is the coolest thing since sliced bread? Or are they using IE and so totally annoyed at it they loose all semblance of sanity? Personally, I haven't a clue.
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You know, I totally agree. The promised "funny"-ness of the videos also left to be desired. For example, I watched the videos while at work and I didn't laugh once. However, listening to a sound bite from Cadyshack (specifically when the groundskeeper tells Bill Murray to kill all the golfers) made me blow chunks of candy shell and chocolate along with water on my laptop screen in the middle of a serious database discussion.
Now, more to your point sir, I think these would be more informative:
Show a split screen: Internet Explorer on the Right and Firefox on the left. pan back to show the users: A grandma on the left and a geeky bill gates look-alike on the right. Put a big word on the screen (like volcano) and a countdown 3... 2... 1... GO! Then the grandma and the geek start browsing the web for volcanos using their respective browsers. Show how easily Control Click and tab navigation coupled with the smooth popup blocker and the search engine at the top right lead to results. Also show how the internet explorer user is stuck in a sea of popups and gets malware installed on his computer so it runs slower and has to go to the task bar to navigate through all the pages he's opened and keeps having to install search bar helpers or go to different websites to search for everything. Grandma wins, and a firefox pounces in between them and puts her hand up boxing style. Now that's entertainment.
Agreed. Not only were they not funny, they were terrible advertising. Budweiser tells me their beer tastes good. Kleenex tells me their tissue is soft. What the fuck is Firefox trying to say? Web browsing is exciting?
Yo mama so fake, she failed the Turing Test.
You might be interested in this spot. Made by a student no less.. htm
http://studentpages.scad.edu/~eedwar21/firefoxweb
imagine these were IE commercials... would \. still run a story that these "extremely funny"? I guess not. And then there is this mention of the "spread like wildfire" "I also wanna viral internet movie hype crap"... pffff
I thought the guy in the office was an IE user and he had just gone to a porn site and gotten 1 million popups and that's why his head asploded.