Everyone was wondering how Mozilla planned to market Firefox 2.0 and it looks like they have revealed how. They have started the World Firefox Day and want to put your name in the new Firefox 2.0 that is scheduled for release this fall. All you have to do is enter in your name and email address and then enter your friends name and email address. If they download and install Firefox before September 15, 2006 then both of your names will be included on the digital Firefox “wall”.
Here are some quick things I thought were interesting from their FAQ’s page:
- This started yesterday, July 15, because it was Mozilla’s birthday.
- You can only nominate one friend so you need to make sure that they aren’t using Firefox.
- There will also be a wall at the Mozilla headquarters, and they plan on bringing it with to conferences and such.
- They are still working on the details of how to display it in Firefox 2.
Even non-Firefox fans have to give Mozilla credit for their clever marketing plan. The problem that I have is that I don’t know many people that don’t have Firefox 
.
When I click on either of those links, it prompts for a password and then says “This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn’t understand how to supply the credentials required.”
That is weird, they must be having issues because I get that now, too. It was working a little while ago when I went there.
-Ryan
i’m getting the password thing too
According to comments posted [spreadfirefox.com] they have password-protected the site because they’re doing some bug fixes. It should be accessible again soon.
Thanks for digging that up Jason. I tried checking all of the caches of the page but it still forces a login.
-Ryan
The site is up again now
It kinda sucks that they had to take it down when they did because the site made popular places like Digg and SlashDot.
-Ryan