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Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the selling-what's-already-free dept.

Ivan Mark writes "Christopher Beard, the VP of products at Mozilla Corporation, told ZDNet UK on Monday that there is a 'strong likelihood' that Firefox 1.5, the next major version of the open source browser, will be released on 29 November. Beard said they are planning a 'big marketing push.' 'You will have real people telling you about Firefox's features-- what's cool and great,' said Beard. 'People can create the video and upload it to the Mozilla site. The video will then be reviewed and put on our Web site, with a link from their location.'"

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  1. Yeah but will it compensate for this? by Xenna · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This week I spent 15 minutes entering data on a car insurance comparison site. Just as the site (independer.nl) was finally ready to tell me the cheapest insurance for my situation...Firefox crashed.

    Whenever I advise any of my friends and colleagues to switch, I hate to think what they'll do when they encounter something like this.

    X.

  2. Re:Mozilla can advertise all they want by kahrytan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's just another one of my friends who installed Firefox on a clean uninfected machine but ended up with bloated registry and alot of spyware. Also complained that completely removing Firefox was a pain in the ass to do.

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  3. Re:Recently downloaded Opera! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    IE is the only web browser I use on this computer. I have several on my laptop for varied reasons.
    You will not find any spyware on this computer nor any spyware removal tools. You will not find any viruses or any antiviral tools. I'm smart enough to know that my bank, credit card company or any other finacial institution will never contact me requesting data via e-mail that they already have. Hell, my bank doesn't even have my e-mail address how could they ever send me an e-mail. Only a select number of websites are even allowed to place a cookie on this machine or run any scripts. I often surf the worst aspects of the web and IE, unlike Firefox and Opera, rarely ever crashes.
    You should quit pissing and moaning about IE and learn how to use it. The only problem with IE is the default security settings.