Firefox Promo Videos 421
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."
Can't handle the load? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:2)
This is why its good to be a nerd (Score:5, Funny)
I always knew it was best to toil in obscurity!
Re:This is why its good to be a nerd (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:5, Funny)
Some of us are in different time zones you insensitive clod.
(Sorry, it's been a while since I've seen an insensitive clod accusation)
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:5, Funny)
Some of us are insensitive clods you... er... yeah
(That should help hold you over)
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:3, Informative)
Note the 's' in 'hours.' Not that I'm not an insensitive clod, I just figured the average slashdotter smart enough to figure it out on her own.
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:2)
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:2)
It's just a shame that in gaining your infinite wisdom, you had to give up your sense of humour.
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:3, Funny)
The continental US covers 4 time zones. With a 4 hour lunch no wonder you're all so fat!
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:2, Informative)
did you try or just try to jump in and claim it has been
they're really not that good to be honest. you aint missing much.
my summary:
Office
Guy staring at his computer screaming.. closes with 'feel the difference'
Mobile
Young woman staring at home computer. picks up her mobile phone in place of her other snack and takes a bight out of it. chews it up. closes with 'taste the difference'
Notebook
guy si
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.kore-net.com/funnyfox/ [kore-net.com]
Re:Can't handle the load? (Score:5, Informative)
Why the hell didn't they update the bittorrent link [mozilla.org] you mean.
This is slashdot so... (Score:5, Funny)
Wasn't porn the whole reason that people wanted a better web browser in the first place?
Re:This is slashdot so... (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:This is slashdot so... (Score:2, Interesting)
On a more serious note, it can render you night blind, because each time you ejaculate you get rid of about 5 mg of zinc (which is found in high quantities in semen), but the latter is essential to bringing vitamin A to the eyes, and its deficiency can cause night blindness.
Zinc is also found in high quantities in cereals, so if you wank 3 times per day (as one of my friends does, not joking), you may want to increase your intake of zinc. Google is your f
Totally offtopic.... (Score:5, Funny)
- 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.
Re:Totally offtopic.... (Score:5, Funny)
Funny how they're all for the left hand.
Coincidence? More discrimination against left-handers? Or...something else?
Re:Totally offtopic.... (Score:2)
N is left handed? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Totally offtopic.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Totally offtopic.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I annotated my entire collection which I traded on IRC. Since many fserves wanted certain things, and not others (no low-qual pics, no b&w pics, only lesbians, etc.).
I wrote an app in python that parsed a manifest file that described all the files in a particular directory, and then let you trawl it using arbitrary boolean queries over boolean, integer, and string fields.
The exact usage of the app went like this:
reset (reset the set of working files to all files)
men = 0 (remove any pic with men)
women >= 2 (remove any pic with less than 2 women)
hc = true (remove softcore pics)
dump (dump working set to screen and pipe it through more)
That's how you searched for HC lesbian pics
Oh man. I was so proud of myself when I got that written. I was 15 years old, just learning python. It was the first time I had programmed something that was of actual use to me.. that helped me in some real, tangible, immediate way. My IRC fserve efficiency went up an order of magnitude after that. Porn is a more powerful motivator than you can ever imagine. Especially for 15 year old boys with a lot of time on their hands. Ah, good times... good times.
-Laxitive
You're thinking of (Score:5, Funny)
or... (Score:4, Informative)
first impressions (Score:2, Funny)
Wildfire (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome to slashdot. Now it's spreading like the fire inside the case of your webserver.
Re:Wildfire (Score:4, Funny)
Got my father switched today (Score:3, Insightful)
A lot of the older generation has no idea what ActiveX is, how harmful it can be... it would be swell to see Firefox maybe try to get the attention of more casual, not-so-savvy PC users.
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:3, Informative)
I want 1.1, because at the moment I have 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 in my add/remove programs list.
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:3, Insightful)
Good grief! When *I* think of the "older" generation, I think of people who amazed that an entire computer could fit into a single room. How wonderful that we've come far enough that we're worried about the distributed software that the "older" generation is using on their *personal* *computer*!
(BTW: I use firefox and mutt. I just look old.)
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:3, Insightful)
This is a common misconception. If Firefox expects to make any serious inroads, then they must address the casual user. Word of mouth is powerful, but not that powerful. Saying it would mean everything would have to be too easy is, to me, a copout.
Strictly speaking this has little to do with security. It has to do with prevention of scripts and executables being launched without user permission. This is one of the many things FF does well. IE does not. All a casual user has to do is in
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:2)
"Firefox will stop spyware installing on your PC, which will make your PC run better in the long term. Which means you won't have to spend money on crap software or buy a new PC quite as soon".
Sell Firefox to the idiots through their wallets since they won't care for the truth.
Re:Got my father switched today (Score:3, Insightful)
The whole point of ActiveX in the MS HTML control is to allow a remote site to load and run a native executable without you having to decide whether to run/install/download/whatever.
Of course that has turned out to be a horribly bad idea, and they've wrapped ActiveX in so many layers of protection that downloading and installing a program is INFINITELY easier than figuring out how to configure IE to let you use ActiveX the way it was intended.
The problem is, all those
Starting small... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure a post to Slashdot is going to help.
ugh (Score:5, Insightful)
torrent link (Score:5, Informative)
Re:torrent link (Score:2)
Re:ugh (Score:2)
404 (Score:5, Funny)
the ultimate irony (Score:5, Funny)
-gary
Re:the ultimate irony (Score:2, Funny)
It's a targeted audience.
Re:the ultimate irony (Score:2)
Why don't I just use Flashblock? Well, I used to, but somehow or other a more recent installation of FF didn't get Flash connected in to it, and I was just as happy to be 100% certain that I'd never see any flash unless I specifically went out of my
Re:the ultimate irony (Score:5, Informative)
firefox.exe -safe-mode
or...
or...
Depending on your operating system, one of those will work.
Share & Enjoy (Score:2)
Coulda been better... (Score:2)
What would have been better was him screaming like that, and then he goes to the woman in the ad "nasty pop-up..." and then the screen flashes "SHOULD HAVE USED FIREFOX", and point you to getfirefox.com.
That's the marketing angle I would like for firefox. Not that it's better through addition (which it is), but appeal to people because it's better through subtraction (less bullshit that IE lets through).
Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefox (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:5, Insightful)
I just don't feel the "blank and mysterious" adverts of the dot-com-bubble era are the right way to do it.
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:3, Insightful)
That's not neccesarily a bad thing. It's an old advertising trick to deliberately miss out some information in order to stimulate curiosity.
Admittedly, this could be leaving out too much.
I think what this might do it hurry those who do know what firefox is into getting round to trying it. I know I would if it made me eat telephones.
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:5, Insightful)
where've you been hiding? (Score:2)
Most ads these days don't even talk about the product, maybe don't even show the product. Think about a coffee commercial: In the '50s, coffee commercials talked about how their coffee was deeper, darker, and more delicious than their competition. Maybe there was a littl
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo (Score:3, Interesting)
Now, more to your point sir, I think these would be more informative:
Show a spl
404 Not Funny (Score:2, Informative)
Anyone got a torrent up? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Bittorrent for 60 KB Shockwave Flash movies? (Score:2)
Coral cache ... ? (Score:5, Informative)
http://funnyfox.org.nyud.net:8090/ [nyud.net]
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?
Re:Coral cache ... WORKING! (Score:2)
Not funny? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yawn.
/Firefox user on PC; Safari on Mac
Re:Not funny? (Score:3, Insightful)
Not funny. (Score:4, Funny)
Extremely lame. It's like they thought, "Hey, let's get CRAZY!!" then they forgot where they were going with it.
Let's get CRAZY!! WHOO! now we're all CRAZY!! Now what? Oh I know! Let's end here!
Hey! Know what'll *really* slay 'em? She takes a BITE out of her CELL PHONE, and DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE!! How CRAZY is that?! Whoo!
Re:Not funny? (Score:3, Interesting)
Classic problem with bad advertising (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
For or against FireFox? (Score:5, Insightful)
Cute videos, but I have no idea what they're trying to communicate.
Re:For or against FireFox? (Score:2)
Yeah, I can't think of anything *really* exciting about firefox. Yes, it works, and it does what many of us *expect* from a browser. Blocks pop-ups. Blocks cook
Re:For or against FireFox? (Score:2)
Funny, the first commercial looked to me like the guy was panicking over something gone wrong.
That, or he was just having a Matrix [imdb.com] moment
Re:For or against FireFox? (Score:5, Insightful)
The whole idea of this kind of advertising is to get your attention, and then show you a brand name. It's called brand exposure, and it's surprisingly effective. That's it, nothing more.
~D
In other news... (Score:2)
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
Are you lysdexic?
url for actual swf files (Score:5, Informative)
http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//jeu
http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/mozilla-video//bur
How did they author the videos? (Score:4, Interesting)
Overall, I was impressed. Technical slashdotters, please elaborate. Thanx.
Re:How did they author the videos? (Score:2)
Re:How did they author the videos? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:How did they author the videos? (Score:2)
Not Maui X-Stream's VX30!! (Score:2)
There's some things being done with video > flash.. VNC can do it now, you just watched some videos.
Adobe's stock will definately go up when they start tying Premeire into Flash or vice-versa.
Horrible. (Score:2)
Foxy Cleopatra (Score:2, Funny)
With sex, you could set Beyonce aka Foxy Cleopatra to do a commerical. Get it, "Foxy"? Maybe OG Pam "Foxy Brown" Grier?
Or maybe a sexy anthropomorphic cartoon lady fox? Eh? Maybe? A sexy cartoon lady fox would be better than the "non-anthropomorphic fox soul-kissing the
Re:Foxy Cleopatra (Score:2, Informative)
Not AVI/MPGs.... (Score:2)
slashdot video (Score:2)
What could go wrong
Extremely Funny? (Score:2)
I'd like to see Firefox ads parody the dotcom Superbowl ads from a few years back. Perhaps something with that damn sock puppet or the E-Trade dancing monkey.
All that said, any publicity is good publicity, so any ad is better than no ad at all.
Re:Extremely Funny? (Score:2)
Re:Extremely Funny? (Score:2)
They're awful (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:They're awful (Score:5, Insightful)
These ads, on the other hand, are even worse. They don't explain what Firefox is, they don't talk about it's advantages, and are therefore completely irrelevant. (Compare this to the AOL with Spamblocker buffet line ad, which is a lot better, even if the product isn't). Worse, they're not even funny. And then to top it all off, you try "viral marketing" them on a bunch of blogs --- these are people that already know about Firefox.
I can guarantee that infomercials running in the morning advertising Firefox for $4.95 would be loads more succesful than this crap.
They need a fourth one (Score:2)
They need a fourth one called "The Hacker" with an ending tagline of "Be The Difference" with a button for "Donate Money or Coding Skills [Here]".
What will happen to Firefox when IE 7 comes out? (Score:2, Interesting)
My thoughts are though, since Billy has up'd the release of IE 7, I am sure he is going to make
"extremely funny?" (Score:2)
SWF Torrents Mirror. (Score:2)
You'll find the torrents and more here:
http://haikunews.org:6969 [haikunews.org]
Firefox Commercial (Score:2)
Re:Grr... (Score:2, Insightful)
So does MSFT, now that you mention it.
Why oh why do they insist on discussing web browsers when we're just trying to upgrade our web browsers?
Um, irony, this is earth, we have another post.
Re:Grr... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:mod u 4 (Score:2)
OK, it was actually not bad for any goat*.*
Nope. (Score:2)
Bullshit. (Score:2)
Re:Congratulations! (Score:3, Funny)