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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."
"we were concerned that servers wouldn't be able to handle the load" -> Slashdotted already. :(
Wasn't porn the whole reason that people wanted a better web browser in the first place?
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.
"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.
A treat to eat, in a puppet that's neat!
Mentioning "video" without the subsequent "torrent link" is asking for trouble.
404 - Funny not found
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
The adverts are certainly cool, I enjoyed watching them.
BUT, although they mention FireFox, they don't give much clue as to what it does, other than "it's something to do with computers".
I can't see this converting anyone.
Sure, there is a link to download FF at the end, but users these days really should be discouraged from downloading something just because "the advertiser says so". Aren't we working against that culture?
I really think the adverts need to make more noise about what firefox is and does.
sorry - that sounded a bit harsh. I think it's great that people are trying to promote FF.
I just don't feel the "blank and mysterious" adverts of the dot-com-bubble era are the right way to do it.
See - this just goes to show: popularity is bad!
I always knew it was best to toil in obscurity!
air and light and time and space
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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Yawn.
/Firefox user on PC; Safari on Mac
I watched these movies a few days back, and found them amusing, but I didn't understand their message. Are they suggesting that using e.g. IE is so devastating to the user that his head will pop off? Or is using Firefox so horrible that he scream in horror? Or are these good things, to show how remarkably different Firefox is from the competition?
Cute videos, but I have no idea what they're trying to communicate.
ShoutingMan.com
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
FirefoXXX
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.
Looks like you don't know much about marketing. You don't want to give the viewer much clue as to what something does. If you say up front "It's a web browser", people will think "oh ok i already have one, goodbye". If you make them think "what the hell is firefox?", they will click on the link and read the sales pitch on firefox.org (and quite likely download and try it). Much more effective.
Stupid modern marketing and going for shock value instead of features. The notebook and office ones do not even show Firefox, aside from the link at the end. Oh ya, some rediculously stupid ad for it is going to intrigue me into downloading something.
Feel/Taste/See the difference? TASTE? These are some of the worst "ads" I have ever seen.
Ive setup a mirror here, with the actual .swf files.
http://www.kore-net.com/funnyfox/
You mean like this one?
Only a pr0n surfer would say that the letter N is a left-handed keystroke.
Pornzilla ;o)
...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
These guys clearly either haven't really done much work in advertising... or else they have, and failed miserably.
What must be the number one problem with a lot of advertisements over the past couple of years, especially for new products, is that the advertisers spend too much time being weird, funky, shocking, and funny, and COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT THE FRICKIN' PRODUCT.
At any given moment I can rattle off a commercial I've seen whose content really stuck with me, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you what the hell they were advertising.
Like that Dodge Ram commercial where the middle aged guy is making the two salespeople turn the truck back and forth.
Wait a minute, that's not a Dodge Ram commercial at all, it's a Vehix commercial. Well, at least we were close with this one, it's car related somehow.
Or what about those commercials about the company with the tech support department that is so good it can tell you if something is funny? Wait, that's for TBS. Who doesn't actually provide that service at all.
And these ones are for that website thats so crazy and shocking that it makes your head explode. Right?
These ads don't say anything - I mean, nothing at all - about what's good about Firefox. All they say is that it'll make you scream, or decapitate you. A little balance with some message of benefit might help.
Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.