We've had over 100,000 people sign up for Bugzilla accounts. We've had tens of thousands of unique bug reporters file a quarter of a million bug reports in Bugzilla!! We get millions of downloads of releases that each result in tens of thousands of TalkBack crash reports. Hundreds of thousands of beta testers download our pre-release milestones, and even as many as several thousand people have downloaded a single nightly build. Community QA and testing, this massive organization of dedicated volunteers, have made Mozilla and Firefox what they are today. There's just no doubt about the huge impact that our community has had on the quality of our products. You are all to be praised and you deserve more credit than I can possibly give on this little blog.
Today, Blake Ross and I are launching a new series of community actions. We've seen the advantage of a massive community of testers and now we're going to try to build a similarly powerful community of marketing volunteers who help us get the word out about Firefox with the same vigor and consistency that we've seen from the QA and testing community for more than 4 years.
If you've been looking for that opportunity to do something more for the Mozilla Foundation and the Firefox browser, we hope you'll join us in this new and exciting effort.
The first action we've decided upon is to recruit as many people as possible to tell download.com what they think of the Firefox browser. We know from talking to folks at c|net that applications that are getting noticed with reviews and ratings are the applications that get featured and we think being featured at download.com will help Firefox adoption.
For this first push, our goal is to get 1,000 (yes, you heard that right, 1,000) new reviews and ratings at download.com the Firefox listing by next week :) This is going to take some real effort and it won't be sufficient for each of you to just add your review. You'll need to get your friends and your family to join you in telling download.com what they think of Firefox.
We're not suggesting any comment for these reviews and we're not telling you how to rate Firefox, but we're confident that Firefox users love the application and if all of you who are using Firefox and reading this blog will add a review and if you each get a handful of friends and family to do the same that the Firefox listing will be absolutely buzzing and our friends over at c|net will take notice and that will earn us feature status and the eyeballs that brings.
So grab your friends, your family, all those people praising Firefox in their blogs, in their offices, and in their classrooms, and head over to the download.com the Firefox listing to add some Firefox reviews.
update: We've added 200 reviews since this post went up! That's amazing! Keep telling people about Firefox and don't forget to tell them to spread the word and to share their experiences with download.com. Wow! 200 new reviews and the first full day isn't even over yet. That's just awesome! Make an effort to tell a couple more people today. Look through your sent mail folders and find all those people that you pushed to try Firefox. Follow-up with them and ask them to follow-up at download.com. Have lunch with a co-worker and suggest they post a review. Talk to your classmantes and try to get at least one more person to try firefox, letting them know that if they like it they should pass it on and they should let others know at download.com. You all rock!
