Another beta was released for the upcoming Firefox 3. The new beta 5 is said to be faster and more in tune with the operating system it is installed to (Windows, Linux, Mac). So far it’s looking pretty nice.
Tag Archives: Firefox
Firefox 2.0.0.12 Available
Firefox 2.0.0.12 is now available for multiple platforms. This is a security and stability update and it’s recomended that all users update to the latest version.
Mozilla Pulls Stupid Firefox Ad
I posted yesterday about a new ad for Firefox that just sucked. It’s not that I found it offensive (many people did!), but I simply thought it was boring, not funny, and well… just stupid. While the ad is still available via YouTube (I’m not linking to it again) it has been removed from Mozilla’s “viral” website, and Mozilla’s VP of marketing Paul Kim has pubicaly apologized stating that,
“There is no way we would have gone live with a site that mocks cancer victims if there had been a review of these stats beforehand. Something went seriously wrong with our content development process, and I’m working to clean this up now. The site is up now for testing purposes, but should have been kept behind password authentication until we were ready to open it up. Regardless of these issues on our end, the main thing is to say that I take responsibility for the situation, and again, apologize to anyone who was upset by this.”
Horrendous Firefox Ad Released By Mozilla
Apparently Mozilla thought they would be cool and release something that kind of resembles a viral ad. Unfortunately, the ad more than sucks… it’s probably the worst piece of garbage that I’ve ever seen on YouTube. I think I’ll go so far as to say that this ad makes me want to stop using Firefox all together.
Come on Mozilla stick to what you do best, make software. Leave the advertising to people that know how to do that. Read more about the bad ad at TechCrunch.
Netscape Dead (Again)
Not that anyone really cares at this point, but AOL has killed Netscape for the 2nd time. For the less than 0.2% out there that actually use Netscape, AOL will only provide security updates for the next month. On February 1, 2008 the browser will no longer be supported.
They are encouraging users to switch to the Firefox web browser.