Community @ SFx

Hi friends,

Will someone explain to me why all the effort to spread Firefox? I don't get it. Internet Explorer is a good browser even though Firefox is better, but it's not useless. And it's way ahead in market share, do we think we're going to topple the giant? IE is free, so that's not the angle. There's money in this for Mozilla somewhere, I know it. But why so much effort to kill the giant when it works?

I'm looking for ideas and help with a campaign idea. If you're interested, check out my group: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/1962

Thanks!

The image below is a screen shot that I took while downloading Firefox 3 Portable beta 5 from (Cnet) download.com.

Can someone tell me how to put an affiliate link within outlook 2007 email? Is it possible
dan

My love for Firefox grows everyday and I can't just stop loving it. This prompted me to write a simple script that won't cause any nagging or annoyance to a website visitor whom am advertising Firefox to. User can also use it too. I called it INTFOX. You can visit the service via http://inturl.com/?intfox

Kevin Rose (one of the founders of Digg.com) was caught on camera wearing a Firefox T-shirt. For some reason that's the first thing that caught my eye ;-)

The following text is a copy of: Firefox Market Share over 30%.

I wanted to be a part of the SFX community. But I'm tired of posts being lost, destroyed, pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and deleted. The browser "hangs" and I get error messages. But it's posted. Surprise! It's gone again!

Still having problems posting. I'll write up something and hit the button to send it. The response is, "Problem loading page". The last time, with the humorous picture, I hit "submit" once. It was posted twice. Just so you know.

Someone sent me a picture of three foxes. So, my deviant mind went here with it...

Someone sent me a picture of three foxes. So, my deviant mind went here with it...

Source: mozilla.com/en-US/press

New open source organization kicks off development of Thunderbird 3

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - February 19, 2008 - Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, today announced that it has begun operations.

I subscribe to the postings by e-mail. One arrived about "Where are all the groups"? Yes, I see fifteen groups as well.

But I'd like to know why so many posts do not show up. I could not reply to the original ("access denied"), and the topic itself seems to be gone. I have posted items myself that have disappeared.

This is discouraging.

Whatever happened to all the groups? There are only a few left. For example I can't find the AccessFirefox group anymore and the Fire up the Fox group I created sometime ago is no longer accessible, even when logged in.

- Otto

I have made a few download counters that I have put on http://codefisher.org/firefox/

It comes in 3 formats. A button image in one of 6 colors that has the Firefox logo on it. As as image with just the the number that can be made in any color or font. Or as a JavaScript counter that ticks along to make it appear that the downloads are really happening.

A Perl script to download the Firefox (or Thunderbird) executable for each locale, check the md5 sum, then rename according to the locale so that all the executables for the different locales can be hosted in a common directory on a P2P seeding server etc..

http://www.catnip.co.uk/projects/perl/firefoxload/

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To better understand the views, attitudes, and usage of various technologies and brands among college students, Eduventures conducted research of 18- to 24-year-old students enrolled full-time at a four-year college or university via a Web survey.

I believe that what I have is a decent view of the moods and feelings that average end users feel towards Firefox when they come across an Internet related technical problem.

Choose Firefox Special Edition (for UNICEF, UNAIDS, Global Fund, etc.) and Mozilla foundation gives a portion of the generated money for good cause.

What need to be done?

* Make Good Cause Firefox (Special Edition theme)
* Make web pages for good cause
* Make Good cause downloadable button

Is this idea an interesting one?

I just noticed this, Firefox plushies are back in the Mozilla Store!

http://store.mozilla.org/product.php?code=MZ9016&catid=0

It's been pointed out a few times that we need more Thunderbird buttons (there's only one available on the buttons and banners page at this moment). However there have been more, so I took some time to find them and put them together in a page, with an easy copy and paste interface.

A *very* short Weblog entry for 2 February 2008. This one is a little bit of text and two pictures, all about the Fox. http://stormbringer005.blogspot.com

United Healthcare, a major insurance company in the US (and other international ventures), forbids Firefox, even as optional use. Worse, they're not bright enough to get IE7 working with their applications, it has to be IE6. In their buildings, fine, I guess, it's their equipment.

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We simply want to help people discover the internet in a new way and help them make the decision that best suits them. Or in other terms help them rediscover the web.

So we aim to:

* Provide tips and tricks that will
o help make online videos run smoothly
o give the best ways to search the internet
o etc...
* Show them the best downloads to help them do any number of things

There are so many groups now, that the overview is lost.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/og

I think we should list the groups by number of subscribers, so that the most popular ones appear on top, instead of hidden somewhere in pile.

Is Firemonger coming to its end? It has always been so useful but recently it has fallen behind on its releases and is now way back on ff 2.0.0.1! But is it still a good idea?

I'd like to see a free Webmail domain set up for Firefox. Many special interest groups have them with their Websites. ItalianPride.com, several Free Tibet groups, Buddhamail (yes, really) and more. These come through Everyone.net. Advertising supported at the free level, and the opportunity to upgrade to more storage, POP3 access, etc.

My previous post to this group disappeared from the home page of this group, because after it was posted I had to correct something and edited it. I should have known this because it happened to me before here on SFx, but forgot about it, because this is never a problem anywhere on any forum!

Why would I do a thing like that? Because the Foxkeh monthly wallpapers are supporting the Beijing Olympics. Because of the ChiComs' record of abysmal human rights and their occupation of Tibet, I can no longer support this aspect of Mozilla's campaign.

I've read where it's suggested that we do Firefox stuff with the logo, take a picture and send it in to share. How? I found something on the old site, but that's being eliminated. Plus, I'm not sure I put it in the right place. Also, my Flickr posting on my account does not show up in the column on the right at Spreadfirefox.com.

What am I missing here? Instruction would be appreciated.

Congratulations to John Lilly, the new chief executive officer of Mozilla Corporation.
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In continuation of JustZisGuy's post, what are these items doing on SFx:

Ziggy Marley releases live DVD
Replicating fixed position in Internet Explorer
MP3 Music Awards deemed a success

I read the post by JustZisGuy http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/625 but I can't reply to his post, so restarting a disussion. I also feel those items to be inappropriate on this site as would be anything that is not related to Firefox.

I saw a post by Otto de Voogd mentioning dead links to the SFx archive site. I too am now discovering that I have many dead links pointing to SFx content that no longer exists. Why is Mozilla deleting the content at all? It's history, reference, and materials that took some quite a bit of time compile and there are quite a few sites that link to SFx articles and content.

In my cellphone, I have Opera Mini, for more information, go to this site http://www.operamini.com/ , I was using it, and this thought came into my mind, is there a Firefox Mini?

So I searched the net, and came across Minimo (Mini Mozilla), on this page http://news.softpedia.com/news/FireFox-isn-039-t-enough-Mini-Mozilla-tak... , it says:

Lately there is some brewing news up on Google news w/ Firefox, and itself:

Firefox ,or Mozilla, has been in talk around the Market about NYSE messages. How Big Mozilla could be in the public markets and how much WORTH could the Company be.

Like any good religion, Firefox supporters need to be able to answer their critics. Sites like the one I just stumbled across make me wonder, "Why am I spreading Firefox, anyway?" Are there good responses to the issues raised here? http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

I have disabled documents in the Community @ SFx forum, but people can still post documents. This must be some bug. I'd ask people to use the "Start a discussion" link rather than the "create document" link. With a document no-one can post a reply, which kind of defeats the purpose of our group.

- Otto

I made a project for myself. Took the current download of FFX, wrote a document on why people should use it, some other stuff, and burned it onto CDs. Whenever I sell something on eBay, or bring it up in conversation, I'm ready to pass along a free bonus. I won't get "points" for it, but then, those points don't count for anything, anyway. Anyone else have creative ideas for offering FFX?

From: Live Support Launched today

Today we are officially opening our Live Chat support to users of Firefox. Users who can’t find their answer in the knowledge base or the forum can now get real time help troubleshooting their issues with more skilled Firefox users.

It doesn't seem anyone posted this yet on SFx: AOL has announced that it will discontinue development and support of Netscape and advises all Netscape users to switch to Firefox.

Another tip, better create a discussion rather than a document, since no one can reply/react on a document. Maybe we should disable documents for this group? Opinions on that? Maybe there's a point to documents but for now it looks just like a discussion entry without the possibility to react.

I noticed another annoying bug, when you edit a discussion topic, that topic disappears from the group home page. I have seen it happen twice now. Once I re-created the topic to get it back.

So until this is fixed try not to edit a discussion topic but rather post a reply with your correction.

This is something that really bugs me, we have many years of content created on the old SFx. For example some time ago we ran a contest and most of the stuff about the contest was posted on SFx. So I have a page on my site where the first 3 links are to those pages on SFx, but all three links are now dead.

Thanks for creating this group. We should consider making it an automatic subscribe when you create a new account at Spread Firefox. What do you think?

- A