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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:This is slashdot so... by Auckerman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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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    Burn Hollywood Burn
  2. How did they author the videos? by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I have watched the video...my question is how they authored it. Was it a Java "thing" similar to what was at http://mirror.fluendo.com/cortado/? Was it a Windows Media embeded file, or RealPlayer? Quicktime? The browser URL does not say much. I have not tried it on Linux so I do not know.

    Overall, I was impressed. Technical slashdotters, please elaborate. Thanx.

  3. Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo by milimetric · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.