World Firefox Day

kbrosnan writes "Are you a fan of Firefox? Want to spread the word to a friend who hasn't heard of it yet? If you can convince just one person to switch to Firefox before September 15th, you'll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code."

Comments

Alternative to the promotion

[patio11]

If you want to be known for all eternity as someone who did not spam your friends and family, post here and be immortalized on Slashdot and the will-someday-be-omniscient Google Cache.

Re:Alternative to the promotion

[Anonymous Coward]

I just wonder what would happen if my name was

*/ do_virus();

Re:Alternative to the promotion

[Anonymous Coward]

My question is, what if you've already got 10-20 people to switch?

Then I ask you what you've done for me today.

Firefox

Re:Alternative to the promotion

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd be teased about having a stupid name at school?

not a person, but a company.

[lanswitch]

Add Microsoft. They make people switch to firefox.

Re:not a person, but a company.

[stunt_penguin]

Yea like burning ships make people switch to lifeboats.

self-fulfilling prophesy?

[griffjon]

So, we all know that as the user-base increases in size and diversifies, the code tends towards bloat, but really, do you have to make it a 1:1 ratio??

Re:self-fulfilling prophesy?

[Anonymous Coward]

whooosh!

Yeah, he knew that. Yes, it's easy to keep the names from adding to the executable size and you don't have to be a Makefile expert to keep it from recompiling very often. The poster was merely noting the humuorous math of adding a "line of code for every new user." I'll wager that windows has a greater than 1 to 1 ratio without counting the comments.

Wow, an explanation I've been waiting for so long.

[A beautiful mind]

you'll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code

This finally explains the recent bloat in Firefox. :-)

And what a fitting tribute

[192939495969798999]

Because we know how many people will read through that to find your name... one... you! Anyhow, I think I'll refer tons of people just to get a really large font mention in the source, maybe I can get every other line even. Of course, I'd prefer to have all the variables named after me, carmen electra, and awesome. Awesome = me * carmen electra. That would be sweet!

Kids

[Joebert]

Amongst some of the names allready registered,

1) Harry Sachs
2) Hugh G Rection
3) Ivana Tinkle

What's the point?

[Bodero]

What's the point? I'll probably just be commented out.

I can't help...

[excelsior_gr]

...all the people that I know have already switched to Firefox. The people that refused to switch, I now pretend not to know.

Re:Waste of bandwidth

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

I would like a dollar amount for what this campaign is costing in bandwidth and man hours.

I would estimate that the amount of bandwidth/man hours wasted by this campaign will roughly equal the amount of bandwidth/man hours wasted by your post (and my reply :-)

Testtify!

[quakeroatz]

"I want a secure, fast, technically elegant, standards supporting browser with a flexible extension system."

Stand up, load and proud with the rest of your .0005% market segment and say:
"I'm statistically irrelevant! Listen to meeeeeeeeeeeee!"