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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. Might be good for film students by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This might be a real good way for film student to get some real world pratice. Might even land them a job.

  2. Re:Yeah but will it compensate for this? by spacefight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've seen a crashing Firefox too recently, but most of the time, a plugin was directly involved while loading the page (Java, for example). I must say though, that a plugin shouldn'be able to crash Firefox itself, although it does. Couldn't firefox load the plugin somehow in an new thread which can die anytime it wants?

  3. Mod parent up by mekkab · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hate when I try to resume firefox from sleep (i.e. it's been paged out) and it just hangs (both on Win2k, WInXP). I suspect Java is involved (or some other plugin) but its a nightmare.

    I've also had the same problem with Safari; however it just NEVER came back from paging and after 10 minutes I yanked the plug from the wall (I was that pissed off!).

    And I hate that Opera has issues displaying /.

    /unhappy with pretty much every browser

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  4. Open Document Format by pubjames · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How much work would it be to get Mozilla to display Open Document Format documents? Presumably it's already got 90% of what is required.

    It would be a big boost for the format if anyone with Firefox could read it.

    1. Re:Open Document Format by Nate+B. · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I don't think the parent was talking about a MIME link to open OpenOffic.org, but rather Firefox actually rendering an ODF file itself. After all, ODF is just XML with a custom DTD. What it would take for Firefox to read that would be support for the DTD and displaying spreadsheet cells as table elements, etc.

      Firefox would be an ODF reader that could also print ODF. It has little to do with OOo. While ODF and OOo have an historical relationship, implementing ODF is not dependent on OOo.

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  5. Go Firefox by aaronmarks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been a strong believe in Firefox since day 1 and I'm really glad to see that the browser is constantly making headway. The general rule of thumb is really that if a page isn't showing up right in Firefox, then it was either made by Microsoft or it just wasn't made right (almost the same thing). Firefox has always been rock solid for me and I love it's features. I also think that it's really important that the browser is made cross-platform; what good is the web anyways if everyone can't see it the way it was intended to be seen???

    I'm going to go put on my Firefox t-shirt now that my girlfriend got me for my birthday last year ;-)

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    Aaron Marks