Your Chance To Help The Mozilla Team

Blake, one of the members of the Firefox development team, posted this over at the mozillaZine forums.

Originally posted by Blake
We didn't start the fire. But we're certainly going to keep it burning.

We kick off our first community marketing project with a simple task, but one that shouldn't be underestimated: boosting our ratings at top download sites like download.com. While our percentages at such sites are impressive, the number of users who have reviewed the product is decidedly not. For example, at the time of this writing, only 79 users have voted on and reviewed Firefox. This is not going to sway the millions of folks who frequent download.com. It's not going to launch us to the top of the popularity lists. And, most importantly, it's not going to get us featured on the prime real estate that is download.com's front page. We've spoken to c|net editors. It's the applications that are generating the buzz that make it onto their front page for weeks at a time, and that make it into their news stories.

In light of that, we introduce our first community marketing project with a, er, modest goal: One thousand reviews of Firefox. By next week. Your job is to go to the Firefox product listing (Mac version available here) and vote on/review Firefox. Your next job is to get five people to vote also. Your final task is to spread the word about this campaign in one public area (blogs work well for this). We are not telling you how to vote or what to say in your review. We are just asking you to get out the vote.

Please don't take this task lightly. We've spoken to c|net, and it really does have a major impact on the future success of our product. Thanks for all your help, and I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do this week to spread the flames.

So go ahead and get your votes/reviews in.

#187671

thanks for the heads up - voting now...

edit: wow, it's already up to 714, er i mean 715! not bad

#188147

"Pure Juke"
I tried this and I had to format my hard drive to get it off of my computer. It tied every thing up on my computer. I always thot that Cnet had checked their stuff on here but I just found out that they do not. It also put a virus on my computer, and beside not being able to get Mozilla Firefox off of my computer and to get the virus off of my computer , I had to format my hard drive.

"I think it gave me SearchBar spyware"
Despite what looks like a nice alternate browser to IE, I began noticing spyware pop-ups when I starting using IE again. It began so soon after installing Firefox that I assume it must have come from it or one of the plug-ins. All the features in the world are worthless to me if spyware can so easily creep in. Therefore, I recommend against it.

:lol: yeah! that's the good stuff. Firefox haX0r3d my computor!!!