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Firefox 3 mentioned on the Colbert Report

arstechnica.com — The official release of Firefox 3 has received widespread attention from the press and has gained a few unexpected allies, including television show host Stephen Colbert. In an episode of the Colbert Report that was aired on the same day as the Firefox 3 release, Colbert interviewed open Internet advocate Jonathan Zittrain, who encouraged Colbert t

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  • MattBlackCat, on 06/19/2008, -5/+52Colbert always on the 'cutting' edge
    • Sajentine, on 06/19/2008, -9/+4Why did you put "cutting" in quotation marks?
      • tumatakuru, on 06/20/2008, -3/+9Because of the wood chopping section in the Sport Report ...
        Kiwi Lumberjacks FTW!
      • celkin, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Why "not" ??
    • Vigilo, on 06/20/2008, -12/+3Do people watch Colbert or Stewart anymore? Colbert isn't terrible but Stewart just shows a clip then does a funny voice. Still though good that Firefox is on msm. Listen To Alex Jones at Prisonplanet.com even if you don't agree with what he says it is much more entertaining.
      • MacSuxWindozSux, on 06/20/2008, -1/+6It's varying degrees of Comedy + Politics.

        Stewart is about 60% comedy and 40% politics.
        Colbert is about 80% comedy and 20% politics.
        Bill Maher is 20% comedy and 80% politics.

        Comparing comedians with political shows.
        • ostracize, on 06/20/2008, -0/+8Bill O'Reilly is 100% comedy and 0% anything else
        • Peroxyde, on 06/20/2008, -0/+0Bill O'Reilly is 100% comedy and 30% stupidity.
      • crowbar77, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I still watch Colbert, but Stewart is starting to become embarrassing. Seriously man, whats with the puppets?
    • aduelley, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Isn't the os x theme for firefox 3 better than the themes for windows and linux? Do people agree?
  • HuskyPuzzle, on 06/19/2008, -3/+69Haha, I like the bit about Bill O'Reilly mistaking the Peabody Award for a KFC coaster. Colbert is pretty much the coolest guy on TV.
    • ptFoe, on 06/20/2008, -8/+54Bill O'Reilly - " ***** it, this ***** sux. Let's do it with IE"
  • ElBeh, on 06/19/2008, -1/+128Yeah, but does it protect from Grizzly Bears?
    • RAGEdemon, on 06/20/2008, -3/+163 Foxes on Fire would sodomise the grizzly with his own claw.
      • PeninsulaBoy217, on 06/20/2008, -1/+11But what about the Robot bears?
        • RAGEdemon, on 06/20/2008, -1/+8Robot bears come pre-installed with internet explorer. The bloated bots would be sodomised by mallware before the superfast foxes could even get to them.
    • muniak, on 06/20/2008, -2/+2No, it lets them in if you use windows :(
    • EmperorAwesome, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Only the ones that write internet ads.
    • fuzzymuzzy, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5FACT: Dwight K Shrute recommends Firefox as a precautionary measure against brown bear attacks
  • Topher06, on 06/19/2008, -46/+2Wow, FF3 is amazing, after 15 minutes of use, have 10 pop-unders while browsing Digg and had to be prompted to save my password 3 times. At least it hasn't crashed yet, but that usually happens around the 30 minute mark on FF2, so still keeping my finger's crossed.
    • DeskFlyer, on 06/19/2008, -2/+47I think you're doing it wrong.
    • elbekko, on 06/20/2008, -0/+18I must wonder what on earth is wrong with your computer, because that is nothing even remotely related to Firefox.
    • springo, on 06/20/2008, -1/+13You must have clicked on the wrong icon... you know, the one which displays an "e" with a halo.
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 06/20/2008, -0/+18You've probably got adware installed on your computer.
    • rivalius13, on 06/20/2008, -1/+4Congratulations! You have a virus!
  • ptFoe, on 06/20/2008, -8/+2lol at that scum "Myra" on Ars asking why is Colbert considered funny.
    • sevenslashfour, on 06/20/2008, -2/+8I know, right? God forbid people have different tastes in comedy. What complete and utter scum.

      :|
  • robthom, on 06/20/2008, -31/+1Buried for lame ass firefox spam and because that zit guy was a real fruit!
  • jman583, on 06/20/2008, -5/+19Video:
    http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-ep ...
  • tippit, on 06/20/2008, -14/+5Wait...stuff gets to the Digg homepage now because somebody said Firefox 3. /ibseanhannitysaysiphone
  • pauls88, on 06/20/2008, -12/+4woop dee doo
  • noahgelman, on 06/20/2008, -5/+20Saw the episode while watching the Firefox 3 counter on my computer. After the guy he was interviewing mentioned it, Colbert just said he gave it the Colbert Bump and then I looked at the counter which was already at like 4 million and I just laughed
  • GoGoPoCoSo, on 06/20/2008, -1/+68ALT+SHIFT+HAMMER
    • ryan83189, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2all i got was the 'about' dialog =(
  • Dylson, on 06/20/2008, -7/+2It got the colbert bump
  • Weejay, on 06/20/2008, -9/+4This kind of event is what introduces cool apps on your mom's computer.
    PS: This doesn't qualify as a your mom joke. I was just pointing out that Colbert reaches America as a whole, out of the nerd niche.
  • nsundeepreddy, on 06/20/2008, -9/+3Wow!! and I just saw Colbert on Firefox.

    Kidding aside, it is good to see that tech news is finally getting into main stream media.
    • Erik1, on 06/20/2008, -0/+6I think you're only allowed to say "Kidding aside" when you say something that is funny.
  • TrellSaracen, on 06/20/2008, -10/+1Wow, thanks for starting a new thread about Firefox! It's been so long since I've seen one, I'd almost forgotten Firefox even existed!
  • Vigacmoe, on 06/20/2008, -0/+87Damn it, can you finish the article descri
  • 1310nm, on 06/20/2008, -5/+40Colbert and others (G4 channel), I believe, use Digg for material. Seriously.
    • sevenslashfour, on 06/20/2008, -1/+15Clearly this is relevant. Because only Digg had any information on FF3's release.

      G4, though, I'll give you that. I do see a few things reported on AotS that I've seen on Digg. But, well, they talk about Digg occasionally too (about new features and such), so it's not really a surprise.
    • sickanimations, on 06/20/2008, -1/+7There's this Radio presenter here in Victoria, Australia that I'm sure is using Digg. He never checks dates though. When a the year-old article about the "$12M blunder" of the apprentice plumber hit the front page, the presenter announced it happened yesterday.
    • Jektal, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1You know who Kevin Rose used to work for, right?
  • exinco, on 06/20/2008, -7/+2i'm using it now. but i don't like it address bar, messy
    • sickanimations, on 06/20/2008, -1/+5It's called the "Awesome Bar". Get used to it, I guarantee all browsers will adopt it :)
    • elbekko, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1You can turn it off.
  • BananaGrabber, on 06/20/2008, -2/+20The small pause after he mentioned Dungeons and Dragons was the most awkward moment ever. I also loved how he stood up to leave and sat back down.
    • BrainsVolpe, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4Colbert used to be a huge D&D player, from things I've read. That brought a smile to his face.
  • MasterTroll, on 06/20/2008, -9/+2My FF3 keeps crashing... and I never had any problems with the old version. Do all of the internets just all of a sudden hate me now or something?
    • secrity, on 06/20/2008, -0/+4It must hate you, I haven't heard of people having problems with it. Unistall Firefox completely, save your bookmarks, configurations, and ***** someplace safe, and reinstall FF3. Only after you are sure that a stone cold brand new FF3 installation works, you can install plugins and add your bookmarks and ***** back a bit at a time.
    • deadmann, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1More information.
    • MasterTroll, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Thanks. And I'm not just trolling around, I'm really having problems :(
  • thegreatanti, on 06/20/2008, -12/+1OMG. But will it play ze Crysis?
    • theaceoffire, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Yes. Yes it will. No really, it will. Yeah.

  • joanrolling, on 06/20/2008, -5/+2about 8 millions of downloads per first 24 hours .
    • mrdjames, on 06/20/2008, -3/+1That's 8 million computers with memory leaks.
  • Drgn547, on 06/20/2008, -1/+84Dugg for Colbert's on-the-fly dungeons and dragons reference:
    Zittrain: "You make that sound like dungeons & dragons.." Colbert: "Well the rest of the world can just make a saving throw."
    • flashingcurser, on 06/20/2008, -1/+8As if it wasn't high enough, his geek-cred just went stratospheric.
    • kevinwiz, on 06/20/2008, -0/+5I don't get it, but I do appreciate Stephen's unparalleled on-the-fly jokes.
  • SuckMyDigg, on 06/20/2008, -10/+4Wow colbert is so hip it's unbelievable!

    Seriously the guy is a living legend after that white house correspondent's dinner... but he's slowly losing his edge with all his craptastic corporate whoredom. You can't even watch a show of his anymore without having to sit through 5 minutes of him rambling about how great doritos are or his ben & jerry's ice cream. Bleh.
    • sickanimations, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I suppose there was that STIHL promotion.
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1After the corespondent's dinner, they didn't invite him back the following year. Theory is that the "higher ups" didn't appreciate the humor.
  • brutimus, on 06/20/2008, -4/+12CNN had an entire short segment on the Firefox 3 launch. Yet one *tiny* mention of it on this show makes news.
    • rebotfc, on 06/20/2008, -2/+27Because Comedy Centrals news coverage is better than CNNs.
    • Fauxriginal, on 06/20/2008, -2/+5So, you'd rather digg up an article covering CNN's coverage of Firefox 3?

      I think the reason this is being dugg, and is interesting, is that The Colbert Report is clearly a comedy show. It's news based, but comedy nonetheless. I'd expect CNN to cover something like this, but The Colbert Report is a surprise.
      • brutimus, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I dunno... I guess I'm looking at it more from the "mainstream" perspective. I'm wanting Firefox to get as much publicity as possible and I was just thinking how the percentage of viewers of this show that know what Firefox is would be substantially higher than those viewers of CNN.

        I think it's great that both shows mention it, I have no qualms with that.
    • KegBol, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2FF3 turned up somewhere a whole lot more unexpected imo, when it was the subject of an article in the Financial Times of London, which is the most serious, business-focused newspaper we have:
      http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0a9836ac-3e62-11dd-b16d- ...
      is the link, but the article is a bit ***** for an otherwise outstanding newspaper (otherwise I would have dugg it independently)
  • copypastry, on 06/20/2008, -8/+3Colbert used a venn diagram tonight.

    I came.
    • Aquashark, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Opera isn't open source and that dude is advocating for an open internet
  • DMXell, on 06/20/2008, -11/+4If the guy cared one bit about security, he would have mentioned Opera (which is currently the most secure web browser out there).
    • DMXell, on 06/20/2008, -3/+2Starting to get negative diggs.

      I thought I'd add that I never said Firefox was a bad browser, I just simply said it wasn't the most secure web browser (in which Opera is if you check the Secunia reports).
      • secrity, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2I like Opera, as a matter of fact this is being posted using Opera. My only issue with Opera, and the reason I normally use Firefox, is that Opera needs to have plugin support.
    • DMXell, on 06/20/2008, -3/+2I guess Firefox user's can't handle the truth hat Firefox 3 isn't as secure as Opera >.>
      • theaceoffire, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I have noscript and adblock plus.

        You don't.

        I believe I am more secure.
    • halfabean, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1he only gave FF3 as an example, not as the only route to secure browsing.
  • bkvandal, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1A more important history lesson was on Colbert
    http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/06/video-pat-buchana ...
  • trumpcard, on 06/20/2008, -7/+1So diggers daily feed on Colbert report i see.
  • Antonton, on 06/20/2008, -6/+15 bucks says Colbert will have a bit on Monday's episode about how his FF3 bit was top news on digg. Not that I'm opposing that, by any means...
  • hellogoodbye, on 06/20/2008, -5/+3Higher quality clip at Hulu:
    http://www.hulu.com/watch/23230/the-colbert-report ...
  • Venge999, on 06/20/2008, -3/+5Well, the rest of the world could just make a saving throw.
  • zzt711, on 06/20/2008, -4/+26OMG, at the end the dude mentioned Dungeon's and Dragons and Colbert picked up on it and replied with Saving Throw. Major Geek Check!!! Cool....
  • stockjones, on 06/20/2008, -8/+3Great new browser but with some yet to be fixed flaws that should have never existed in the first place.
    http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread. ...

    And I still give Opera kudo's for really being first in many areas.
    • Tyrghast, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I give firefox kudos for remaining the best ***** browser. ever. what say you?!?!?
    • cubeeggs, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Firefox doesn't check Google for every page by default for privacy reasons. It downloads a hashed list ahead of time and compares the URLs on the client-side. Most of the top sites on stopbadware.org are flagged by Google, and some have been taken off the list because the malware has been removed.
  • fredmv, on 06/20/2008, -5/+3I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
  • alexdiamond, on 06/20/2008, -7/+1i dont see why people worship this guy what makes him so great?
    • Textzilla, on 06/20/2008, -1/+5Better than worshiping talentless blonds if you ask me. At least Colbert is funny.
  • redhitman, on 06/20/2008, -1/+20When I watched this episode last night the first thing that went through my mind is, "someone is gonna submit that to Digg and it'll probably make the homepage."
  • kinseyincanada, on 06/20/2008, -7/+1so does that mean firefox is cool now?
  • edkid2001, on 06/20/2008, -1/+8Firefox has always been cool....! Noob.
  • SimonGray, on 06/20/2008, -1/+9Hm... the creators of Kazaa and Skype were not a Swede and an Estonian, they were a Swede and a Dane. I should know, it's in the news here every time they do something new.
    • clupean, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Yes. Janus Friis is a Dane, Niklas Zennström is a Swede, and their software developpers are Estonians.
  • MacSuxWindozSux, on 06/20/2008, -0/+9I'm going back to Firebird!
    • flashingcurser, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1The database? Postgres is pretty good. ;-)
    • MrM1yagi, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I'm going back to Phoenix!
  • brucec85, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2Zittrain's book sounds good.....
  • maeon3, on 06/20/2008, -0/+2[here is a url that works in Canada.....]

    WTF are people doing making locale sensitive data availability? This is the beginning of tiered internet. Support Net Neutrality.
  • liquidmetalband, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1I didn't know you could get full episodes of this online...
  • XHashmeerX, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Cool interview and all, but this is getting Dugg for the two line exchange about it?
  • mrblue182, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1I saw that live, and I knew it was going to be in the top 10.
  • NodOfficer, on 06/20/2008, -1/+2Colbert Bump!
  • DarkKnight209, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1i was watching this and thinking, it's gonna be dugg i just know it.... behold the internet!
  • mdman, on 06/20/2008, -1/+1Firefox is buggy...
  • Rizoh, on 06/20/2008, -0/+1Colbert for President.
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