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Firefox Ad: Today In NY Times

Posted in Browsers, Spread IE by Elliott Back on December 16th, 2004.

I saw the following two page ad in the New York Times today. It was black and white. The left is a massive ASCII art representation of the Firefox logo, written with the names of all the campaign donors. The right page features a huge Firefox logo by itself, with user reviews and text at the bottom. Altogether, the ad looks roughly like:

Firefox NY Times Ad

This is really great ad, for a really great product. I just wish IE would get its act together and release a new version with this much user support and hype. All of those people gave $20+ donations. Could Microsoft inspire such loyalty? I also have to voice one complaint about the text-setting. Some of the names are distractingly underlined, and I don’t know what for. It’s either to highlight extreme donors, or to help with print offsets–someone tell me which!

You can get a high resolution pdf from the Mozilla Foundation for closer scrutiny, too!

Update: The Mozilla Foundation has a press release, and a poster you can pre-order.

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    The underlined names are for Community Champions who pulled in 10 or more donations. Check out Matt Ashburn who put his name in 10 times. :)

    Chris

    P.S. Glad you like the ad!
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    omfg your so |337 you use ie.

    Ummm, not. Im sorry, but you sir are pathetic if you actually believe any of this... Just to get some points across, IE is integrated into the OS, and cannot be removed. You say it loads fast? Its already started when you boot, that would be why. Want proof? Type a website in your Microsoft Explorer adress bar, notice it loads inside that? Well its the same thing as explorer. True, IE does get a little better with SP2 (and various plugins), but it still has holes. Windows XP Home SP1, Opera Internet Browser, and no av or spyware software, and i never have any virus/trojan/spam problems. You know why? Because im not using IE. How about you actually try something besides IE before you bash other browsers..loser.
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    Lets see, xXenXx.

    First, this is in the wrong place. This is a blog entry in which I highlight the NYT Firefox Ad, how cool it is, etc. Your reply has nothing to do with this article.

    Second, this comment is written very poorly. Abbreviations like "omfg" and "l337," colloquialisms like "Ummm, not," cliches likes "Just to get some points across" and "you sir are pathetic," and rampant abuse of English grammar do not help your point. Now I doubt your general qualifications to think.

    Third, you mix fact and fiction interchangeably. It's true that IE cannot be removed. It's true that some parts of it are loaded on boot. It's not true that that affects the measurements I've made (in another post) for reasons that (a) are sufficiently obvious to anyone with rudimentary OS knowledge and (b) have been explained in comments previously.

    Also, any (original) arguments you make are spurious! Your "Want proof? Type..." tirade doesn't actually prove anything. In fact, it's just a manefestion of a well known fact--that parts of IE are derived from the Windows Explorer.

    Finally, the straw that turns my campfire to inferno is your lack of respect for me, the author. Feel free to differ, but do not condescendingly call me "elite," claim facts about my browser usage with which you are not familiar, or call me a "loser." I'm a Computer Science major, and have tried all of the popular browsers, and many of the obscure ones. For the record, I have Firefox, which I occasionally use.

    I noticed your AIM screen name might be Ikasu633. Feel free to contact me with an apology for your idiocy, after you finish remedial instruction in decor and literacy.
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    I wasnt replying about the ad, just posting a comment in general. Nothing wrong with my literacy, I just prefer wasting as little time as possible on this. And wow, you did a google search on my name... Bleh, google makes me look like a noob, showing all the stupid posts at various forums... -sigh- Anyways, there was no fiction in anything i said, its all true, and if you don't believe it, thats your problem.
 

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