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April 20, 2006

this is hot

This is indeed hot! See this and more than 25 other ads at FirefoxFlicks.com and stay tuned, because we're posting more ads every day.

Posted by asa at 12:47 AM - 17 Comments TrackBack
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Would you PLEASE be so kind to stop embedding videos in your blog and your RSS feeds? :(

Bandwidth isn't free for everyone, nor does everyone have a T1.

Posted by: ARGH! on April 20, 2006 01:07 AM

moltissimo ot is this also accounting for global warming?

Posted by: sekerob on April 20, 2006 08:22 AM

I'm impressed, this is really good for a homegrown ad. Thanks for pointing it out.

Posted by: Dat Nguyen on April 20, 2006 09:16 AM

Any chance these can be done in Theora or another open format everyone can see?

Posted by: ant on April 20, 2006 09:17 AM

These ad campains are a good idea, and look fun but... I agree with ant, I'm starting to believe mozilla is the new 'open source' microsoft.. because it doesn't seem like standards are your main priority anymore.. and I guess 'Spreading the word' is??

Posted by: Foxtrout on April 20, 2006 09:42 AM

sorry for bringing this up.. 21 errors... (ouch!)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.firefoxflicks.com/flicks/%3F%26sort%3Dnew

just thought you guys should keep the good work up, firefox is my favorite browser.

Posted by: Foxtrout on April 20, 2006 09:45 AM

Since everyone is lambasting you guys for using a format that requires the quicktime plugin.. I'd just like to say that it is my preferred way of viewing embedded video :). Thanks. If theora is as bad for video as ogg is for audio (in terms of % of people who can actually view it), then please don't make it the default!

Posted by: Richard on April 20, 2006 03:37 PM

These Firefox flicks are getting REALLY impressive.

My favorite is http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?id=19542&c=false

Posted by: José Jeria on April 20, 2006 04:23 PM

>theora is as bad for video as ogg is for audio (in terms of % of people who can actually view it)

I suppose you are using MSIE, because is better browser (just in terms of % of people who actually use it)

Posted by: habla on April 20, 2006 04:24 PM

>I suppose you are using MSIE, because is better browser (just in terms of % of people who actually use it)

I'm not commenting on Asa's blog in order to provoke someone into throwing logical fallacies at me. I'm just stating the fact that the type of people who we want seeing these videos online are more likely to be able to view them through a proprietary format. Let's face it - the only people who want these videos in an obscure open source format are almost certainly already using Firefox.

Sure, provide them in other formats - but keep the default to something that the majority of our target audience will be able to view.

Posted by: Richard on April 20, 2006 04:54 PM

@Richard

>Sure, provide them in other formats -
>but keep the default to something that the
>majority of our target audience will
>be able to view.
like Flash Video or mpeg. Please dont use .mov. Reasons:
. Its far away of a standard,
. Firefox can't autoinstall the Quicktime plugin
. Quicktime is a "difficult" format for Linux users.

Posted by: omz on April 20, 2006 06:44 PM

if possible someone post the videos in ascii text, or tell me how the videos goes.

Posted by: rfdor on April 20, 2006 08:18 PM

Cool video, but please refrain from embedding video. Firefox (on Windows anyway) effectively freezes while the plug-in loads up.

Posted by: Nutmac on April 21, 2006 09:36 AM

What, ActiveX and QuickTime ? From a browser that shuns ActiveX ?

No one in their right mind uses QuickTime unless they want to give all settings on the PC to the bloated piece of crap QT. QT does not, nor will it ever live on machine.

Posted by: Nutso on April 21, 2006 08:13 PM

what i dont get is why the devs are focusing attention on better (crap) mac, and not any new innovative features...


Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new MacIntel chipsets.

Posted by: slorg on April 25, 2006 06:25 PM

Please, stop using Quicktime and release the movies in MPEG or whatever format usable by most computer users. Even if the campaign was aimed at windows and mac users only (which I hope it isn't).

One might be surprised, how many windows users refue to install iTunes just for playing Quicktime-files.

Posted by: A. Gered on April 26, 2006 12:00 AM

you dont need itunes.. you just need plugins which can play, like quicktime alternatives.. or *sigh* quicktime

i dont think they will change.. it's been what.. more then 2 weeks, i guess asa either doesnt have control over the content, doesn't read his blog comments, or just doesn't care.. no matter how many users plea.. reminds me of that bug i submited which is over 6 years old, and still no fix (tool tips) still not working.

Posted by: hiatus on April 26, 2006 06:40 PM
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