The Hickensian

7.12.04 Firefox on ABC

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Tagged with: firefox

I never thought I’d see this, but it’s a feelgood moment for sure:

Firefox on ABC News

Firefox over 5.6% of the browser market

Just a shame they used the older version of the logo! You can download the videos here

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No.1

∞ Robert Wydra said 1921 days ago:

Congratulations. It must be awesome to see your work on ABC :)

No.2

∞ Denis Radenkovic said 1921 days ago:

Well done Jon! How cool is that! : )

No.3

∞ Denis Radenkovic said 1921 days ago:

... and ofcourse, I hope hope those 5.6% rise quickly!

No.4

∞ RAMON said 1921 days ago:

Hey at least 5.6% know whats up.

No.5

∞ Jeff Croft said 1921 days ago:

Wow. Very cool for Firefox, and very cool for you. I can’t even imagine how excited I’d be if my work showed up on national TV. Congrats, Jon.

No.6

∞ Mikkel Malmberg said 1920 days ago:

... and his shirt matches!
Nice for you, Jon, you deserve recognition :)

No.7

∞ Jon Hicks said 1920 days ago:

Mikkel – Yeah, I didn’t even get a free T-Shirt out of the deal!

No.8

∞ Tony said 1920 days ago:

As for the logo, the one in those screenshots look like the updated one to me. What am I missing?

What if there was a coordinated effort for the millions of firefox users to visit a targeted site daily for a month, for the sole purpose of making their web stats show an increase of firefox users to be 50, 70, or even 90% of their total market? I don’t even know what sites would be best to hit, but I’d love to see IE with the 5.6% share instead of the other way around.

No.9

∞ Turnip said 1920 days ago:

Wow, nice one Jon. Let this be the first of many…

(cause I think I’m going to kill myself if IE has the same market share by next Christmas)

No.10

∞ Paul Airy said 1920 days ago:

Jon. Wow. That is awesome! Do you get 5.6% of the profits?

No.11

∞ Paul Airy said 1920 days ago:

Jon – you’re taking over the world!

No.12

∞ Jeremy said 1920 days ago:

Jon, what they said! Congratulations!!!

No.13

∞ Adrian said 1920 days ago:

Many congrats! It’s so exciting! Not to be cheeky :P, but even the one in your portfolio isnt the newer version either hehe…

Tony: If you compare the current one in the About Mozilla Firefox in Help, you’d see that there are slight changes in colour, the shape of the tail, and most obviously the bulb of landmass above the fox’s head. Hehe some tweaking.

No.14

∞ John Oxton said 1920 days ago:

You’ve really backed a winning horse says I! Good for you Jon, well deserved! :-)

No.15

∞ nick santilli said 1920 days ago:

that’s just awesome. can’t imagine the cloud you’re floating on right now. congrats.

No.16

∞ Joen said 1920 days ago:

Congrats, I can imagine what it must be like.

One question though, you mention they used “an older version of the logo”. What’s the difference? The “new” version is that the one that has an apple’ish glassy glow on the globe?

No.17

∞ Rob said 1920 days ago:

I watched the clip—it’s unfortunate they didn’t mention security— maybe ABC’s afraid to ask M$oft what’s up with BHO, activeX, and endless security updates. Still, I hope it boosts Firefox and congratulations on seeing your logo on TV.

No.18

∞ ecco said 1920 days ago:

German news magazine SPIEGEL promoting your work:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,329472,00.html

ha, I told my colleagues at work that I know you :-)

ciao
ecco

No.19

∞ Ottawa said 1920 days ago:

Finally FF gets some real publicity. Hopefuly this will jump start the FF era! I’ve been distributing it myself among all my friends, and everyone loves it.

No.20

∞ Kumar McMillan said 1920 days ago:

what a great day in the news. How about that stick shift, eh? it does make driving a lot more fun.

No.21

∞ Jason Beaird said 1920 days ago:

It excites me to see the little browser that could kicking IE where the sun don’t shine. It also excites me to see your great logo plastered up on ABC. Congrats! PS – W3Schools shows Mozilla usage up at 19.9 going into December!
(http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)

No.22

∞ Jonathan Fenocchi said 1920 days ago:

Totally awesome, man. Recently I saw a commercial for a local retail store (Conn’s), which showed a screenshot of their web site in Firefox. I was very impressed. This is even bigger news, though, and I hope that “5.6%” increases by a great deal in the very near future. Congratulations, though, and good work!

No.23

∞ Viking Karwur said 1920 days ago:

Yup… Firefox need more publicity… Hope someday : Firefox get 1 full page in Indonesian Newspaper or Indonesian TV

No.24

∞ Jon Hicks said 1920 days ago:

“How about that stick shift, eh? it does make driving a lot more fun.”

hah! That was great!

No.25

∞ Stuart Maynard-Keene said 1920 days ago:

It’s great news, and congratulations on the publicity Jon. Also, being a Mac man and seeing Tim Berners-Lee interviewed on BBC News 24 the other week, with a Mac behind him made me smile. I aso didn’t know his browser was developed on the next platform, and since the next platform is owned by Apple you could argue the web was developed on a Mac ;-)

No.26

∞ Ollie said 1920 days ago:

CNN TO….

No.27

∞ pketh said 1919 days ago:

Wow, total congrats! I’m a long time reader first time commenter as well actually :)

The way I see it, it’s sorta interesting to watch the underdog rising up as it has – I know it doesn’t need to be said in present company, but we’re definitely on the verge of something big

No.28

∞ Eric Schwarz said 1919 days ago:

Nice to see the story on ABC. I was watching NBC last night, so I missed it (I guess I need to rethink my news watching, since they are intertwined with M$ and would never report open source stuff).

I actually did a story on FireFox for our campus news show, although there isn’t a digitized video yet, but many people got interested because of it.

Keep up the good work!

No.29

∞ ACJ said 1919 days ago:

The quick [orange] fox jumps over the lazy Internet Explorer developers.

No.30

∞ Justin said 1919 days ago:

Congrats Jon! Firefox has been in the media here in Singapore sporadically over the past few months; no logo though. It won’t be long now, I think. Again, congratulations. :)

No.31

∞ Remi P. said 1919 days ago:

How did you feel when you realized that your logo was seen by many millions of people around the world? ;)

No.32

∞ YoungHistorians said 1919 days ago:

I’d feel pretty proud….go get a drink….or two :)

No.33

∞ Lee said 1919 days ago:

That is awesome. I bet it feels awesome seeing something you made broadcast on national news. Congratulations!

No.34

∞ Jesse J. Anderson said 1919 days ago:

haha, awesome man! gotta be a good feeling…it’s great to see Firefox making such an impact, I mean freaking national television! rock the freak on!

No.35

∞ annia said 1919 days ago:

I didn’t recognize the old logo either .. maybe just the artist himself and a few chosen ones see the difference at once :) so don’t worry about it.

No.36

∞ Chris Hester said 1919 days ago:

Tony: If you compare the current one in the About Mozilla Firefox in Help, you’d see that there are slight changes in colour, the shape of the tail, and most obviously the bulb of landmass above the fox’s head.

Both of which can’t be seen in the cropped About logo. Duh…

No.37

∞ Chris Hester said 1919 days ago:

Sorry, the first paragraph should have been a quote. (“Tony: if you compare…”) I used blockquote tags (and bold!) which showed up in the preview but were lost when the comment was posted. Sorry everyone.

No.38

∞ Kim Kruse said 1918 days ago:

Congratulations!

A couple of weeks ago it hit the Danish national tv (the 9 o’clock news) with very good reviews and it was recommended to use FF instead of IE.