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Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (2004)

by tones411 on 8/27/23, 3:55 AM with 71 comments

  • by chrisrhee on 8/27/23, 5:15 AM

    Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...

    New York Times runs Firefox ad https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-york-tim...

    > The first page of the two-page ad--which is twice as large as originally planned--features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors

    My name is somewhere in that mix. I lost the physical newspaper copy at some point in the last 19 years. but it's cool the PDF is still around.

    Surprised the getfirefox.com domain from the ad still works!

    In the Battle of the Browsers '04, Firefox Aims at Microsoft https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/in-the-battle-...

    > the early enthusiasm for the preview version of Firefox is a big reason that Internet Explorer's market share has slipped more than 2.5 percentage points in the last five months, to 92.9 percent at the end of October, its first decline since 1999

  • by gslin on 8/27/23, 4:37 AM

  • by ofrzeta on 8/27/23, 5:11 AM

    same in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ):

    https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Firefox-anzeige-faz.jpg

  • by jszymborski on 8/27/23, 4:37 AM

    Wait, isn't that Fira sans? I imagined that came much later

  • by SOLAR_FIELDS on 8/27/23, 4:45 AM

    Can anyone who was kinda close tell a story about Netscape and Firefox? I was just a kid back then and it would be nice to hear a story from the olden days about the before of Navigator and the after of Firefox

  • by alykhanv on 8/27/23, 2:56 PM

    I’m in there. Paid $100 and even got a printed version that is framed and on the wall in my office.

    The team came out with several releases. In the first release my name was quite prominent in the nose of the fox but on the second or third release I got moved into the big white area. I wonder if those early releases are still available.

  • by habitue on 8/27/23, 4:56 AM

    Hey, I'm on there

  • by skilled on 8/27/23, 4:46 AM

    They should really start putting out a few more of these,

    https://stackdiary.com/mozilla-usage-decline-from-2022-to-20...

    30% of users lost in the last 4+ years and very little work being done on things like the latest CSS properties.

    Makes me wonder if Google uses this as a means to pay them less. The last contract was in 2020 to this year I think?

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-go...

  • by Ayesh on 8/27/23, 6:08 AM

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