spreadfirefox.com — If you live in the U.S. and visit Google with Internet Explorer you will find the first third party advertisement on the Google home page. The ad highlights using Firefox along with the Google Toolbar. Looks like Google is stepping up its support for the alternative browser.
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yadaApr 26, 2006
don't count it out quite yet.. firefox is still open source (what do you think the "new" netscape is based on). imagine a googlized firefox with all the google tools (and big brother tracking that goes along with them) fully integrated.... although anything that pisses off billy boy & baldie can't be all bad...
recursiveApr 26, 2006
>HERE YE! HERE YE!>The abbreviation for Firefox is "Fx", not "FF".>And the proper format is "Firefox", not "FireFox".>This is all on the Mozilla FAQ.If you're going to be a pedantic prick, you shouldn't spell "HEAR YE" incorrectly. Twice.
gorkishApr 26, 2006
The "Fx" abbreviation was drummed up by someone too stupid to have the foresight that it would not take at all. It doesn't take a genius to know that people are going to abbreviate something that sounds like "Fire Fox" to "FF" Although "FF" is already established in the mind of people as "Fast Forward", "Fx" is unfortunately pronounceable and widely used to abbreviate the word "Effects". If the Firefox people really wanted to promote an "Fx" abbreviation they should have just used "Fox" instead, and they should have started doing it a long time ago. Its too late now.Or it's just a throwback to the days of the Netscape FAQ's "It's spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E but pronounced Mozilla"
treasurechestApr 26, 2006
@LouCypherThanks for that. It'll be interesting to watch how the % market share changes after this.This made me laugh: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/Get_Firefox_-_Battle_of_the_Browsers_Video">http://digg.com/software/Get_Firefox_-_Battle_of_the_Browsers_Video</a>
jammerdelrayApr 26, 2006
well yea in firefox 2.0 google is working with mozilla to include their anti-phishing tech in to the browser as well as firefox being the safest browser to use.
Closed AccountApr 26, 2006
Headline incorrect. A week Ago I saw google promoting "The Da Vinci Code" on their front page via the personalised section.
izzieApr 28, 2006
I used to wish firefox was less about marketing, less about fighting IE and more about actually doing a great browser, now I don't care as much as before cause I switched to opera 9 and only use firefox for specific uses through specific extensions.I wonder who knows that firefox is derived from "mozilla suite" internally codenamed seamonkey which derived from netscape code (internally coded mozilla) and that mozilla is the contraction of 'Mosaic killer' and godzilla. Mosaic being the most popular browser at the time. A long history of try to kill the most popular to get its marketshare instead of just trying to do a good software.We users want less marketing speak and more efficiency, simple to use, modern features, innovative stuff, well designed user interface. firefox marketing has become a nuisance, almost an everyday hassle. More and more are getting sick of it everyday. "Marketing remains an important part of our strategy. The focus of our community marketing initiatives can be found at SpreadFirefox. In addition to this we will continue to develop our own marketing materials."-- quoted from firefox roadmap : <a class="user" href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html</a> : => is it a good strategy to get people sick of a product by over marketing it ?"Bon Echo will focus on user interface innovations that help the user in their common browsing tasks interacting with search, bookmarks and history, and improvements to tabbed browsing, RSS handling, managing extensions, security and performance. Put into marketing-speak ..: Bon Echo will deliver better performance, and improvements to virtually every part of the web experience, including new capabilities for managing and organizing a user's personal web information. From best-of-breed tabbed browsing to industry-leading web standards support, Bon Echo will demonstrate Mozilla's continued commitment to driving the web forward for every user, everywhere."--quoted from quoted from firefox 2 goals: <a class="user" href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2/Goals">http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2/Goals</a>=> why do I feel like both of these are marketing speak ? can't the mozilla people just say the search bookmark and history is a broken feature that will be fixed in firefox 2. and why exactly do they need to reinvent the wheel when an extension already do this quite well, why not just integrate the extension in the builtin code ? same goes for many other extensions. what was the last innovation from firefox ? when was it exactly ? why not give the users what they really want: a free of ads web browsing ability out of the box. Is it related in any way to the millions of dollars mozilla receive from google ? money talks and mozilla listens ...