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- ndonohue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51I still like the "retarded browsers" commercial better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BON5nd8Fg - Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -8/+43It doesn't even hint to what the commercial is about until near the end. It's nice, but it could definitely have been done better.
- walterk29, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Another: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/flicks/whatshot.html
Part of the Firefox Flicks campaign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_Firefox#Firefox_Flicks - VipeNess, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21this was part of a contest, which firefoxflicks.com allowed users to post their videos to be put on tv, and whichever video had the most posts, would be the commerical, which this was NOT the commerical. The top commerical can be seen here in their post popular by vote system
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flicks/index.php?&sort=pop
this was the winning video
http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?sort=pop&id=19542&c=false
i would love to see this video on the TV, which the video makes complete sense, being that I use all the browsers daily. - MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The Whee! video was on digg a while back.
http://digg.com/software/Best_Firefox_ad_ever - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I think it sucks and says nothing about FF. You'll probably even get people thinking it'll set their computers on fire (you know, the people silly enough to still be using I.E 6 or 5.5).
- anglachel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14flaming computers? and it wasn't a dell laptop?
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I love firefox but this is neither slick nor memorable, I think they could do better.
- largobargo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16So firefox pollutes the environment? Absolutely disgusting to see such harm being done to the environment for the sake of a poor commercial.
- b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13There's an *enormous* problem with this advert, and this is the fact that nobody knows what it means by 'being burned...?'
Now if they went ahead and TOLD everyone that the reason they have about 6 extra toolbars like mywebsearch, dialer exes that can't be deleted from the desktop, spyware and adware and more, then perhaps they could get the average computer user to switch.
I think that it would possibly be a good idea for them to team up with lavasoft, the people who made ad-aware, and launch a campaign for 'cleaning your computer' (except probably better phrased than that) - Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19That's actually pretty cool.
- NerveBand, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11What the hell are you talking about? With that "junk", the speed is faster than firefox without extensions. It has been proven numerous amounts of times. Firefox has tons of issues and I wish people would recognize them. Its not god, and its not perfect.
For more information on Browser Speed Comparisons, visit
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
For more information on Firefox Gripes, visit
http://www.computergripes.com/firefox.html
Watch me get dugg down at the speed of lightening. - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I wouldn't call it a commercial,firefox is open source not a commercial product, it should be called an openmerical.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I can't say I really like it. How is something named "Firefox" going to burn you LESS?
I mean, I get it, fire, burn, yay we made a connection, but would an average user think firefox is good from that? They probably still get scared by firewalls and install Norton AntiVirus instead... - a99tandem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah.. i love FF.. but I hate that commercial. Pretty damn stupid.
- manfrin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes it was on TV.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/flicks/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I was so scared it was going to be those lame faces on the logo's commerical AGAIN!!
- linkinpark342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What a waste of an IBM keyboard... the original ones are rare now-a-days. I miss them and their *clack* (though i heard the Das emulates it)
- Fipe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The fire image is bad, bad, bad. If an image appears in your product's name, rule one of advertising is not to present the image negatively. This ad: your computer's on fire. You're being 'burned'. And then suddenly we *like* a product called Firefox? That's a terrible mixed message.
Incidentally, I'm so glad the 'Wheee!' ad didn't make it to air. It was both moronic and nonsensical, and moreover wouldn't mean anything to the Joe Average target of the commercial. - linuxeventually, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I like the Firefox eskimo commerical better...
- ri0t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4To me the commercial is kinda contradictory: First "burning" is established as something negative and then the Firefox logo appears and it says "Ignite the web". It uses the same metaphor *fire* in two different meanings. It doesn't really work out. I bet the average guy would be pretty confused by this ad.
- Zerocool.956, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have been a member of digg for awhile and i usually dont comment on very many post but in my opinion this was crap, it looked as though it was done by kids. The "This is hot" video was very well done (http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?sort=pop&id=20674)
it matched the quality of a professional commercial. If was watching TV and this commercial came on i would definately have to check out what they were talking about. It gets straight to the point, and i like that.
+ it doesnt look like crap. - ebp24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That commercial was kinda lame
- coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ anchorman
The third place FF advert (the one with the girl in the fox outfit) is great.
But my favourite is the computer generated Eskimo one. - ba11k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Completely agree. The first thing I thought of was my dad thinking his computer would explode if he stopped using IE.
- MuTeD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ahhhh that was great, I use Safari, but that was great.
- Zerocool.956, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?sort=pop&id=20674&c=false my bad
- devnill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"i think it would be kinda cool if they attempted making an OS."
Do you have any idea how much work this takes? Linux is the closest comparison, and it takes hundreds of people working hundreds of thousands of hours to make it work. - EzarKun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I tought it was pretty lame
A good commercial is something like that Nokia Titanium something ad a couple of years ago.
Gears of War Mad world ad, stuff like that
This was lame - neofactor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Looks like a crappy video... "Getting burned by your web browser?" WTF is that?
The retarded browser one is THE BEST: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BON5nd8Fg - Sil369, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Feels a lot like those Vote For Governor So-And-So type ads ..... it's bare and doesn't give much info.... it only screams VOTE ME. Other guy: bad. Me: good. Those Pc vs Mac guy ads for example, have depth and humour. Here, it's bland. At least that's my critique.
- Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When did the FireFox ads air on TV? And are they still airing? I haven't seen one in the wild yet!
- bdub92, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This one is much better: http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/index.php?sort=pop&id=20674&c=false
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Agreed. At best, it's sparse and interesting, but ultimately it says nothing about the FF browser. I can only hope they got that one produced for cheap.
- LaPistola, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Haha.. I think they have their hands full with firefox... plus linux is the firefox of the OS world anyway..
- audioslavery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was probably a Sorny...
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Every time I see some other YouTube bit on a "great commercial for Firefox," it always boils down to the same thing: none of us will ever see this commercial on TV.
- Herzasche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool cant wait to see in on my tv in my part of the world
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So if you use FIREfox your computer will turn into FIRE? Or wait, it's the other way around. Doh!
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~
- joshua5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5That was stupid. Theres a million and one quirky things that could be done for a Firefox commercial. That was the best they could think of? Lame.
- Trojanbee777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It doesn't really make any sense.
An the joke bit, is what my chemistry teacher would call, a "laughy-taffy". - keeganzero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't like commercials that don't make any sense until the last :02 seconds
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The four commercials currently on tv can be found at
http://www.firefox.com/tv
Wheee came in second place.
The winner was Daredevil.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-04-27.html - robwolf100, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From every Soccer Mom, "Whats a Browser?"
- CherryTzors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Crap! I dugg you down without realizing what you were talking about... damn late nites!
Digg up his comment fellow diggers... wait... I read somewhere that "digger" is a racial term... Diggpeople! - CherryTzors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"So what? Firefox is going to burn up my computer when I want to browse the web? No way I'm downloading that application."
That's what my grandpappy would probably say if he saw this commercial. - mediamanbkk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anyone else find the music awful?
- bonedog73, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4lamest commercial ever...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I only use IE for Windows Update and for websites that won't work in any other browser no matter what I do to try tricking it to think that Firefox is IE.
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