Mozilla Featured on Dallas-Fort Worth's WFAA 'News 8' and in CNET Download.com Newsletter
Wednesday July 9th, 2003
Stan Gatchel writes: "For all you Mozilla fans in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area: WFAA Channel 8 News 8 Midday has a brief piece every Wednesday called Computer Corner. This week they talked about blocking annoying pop up ads. First they mentioned a Windows program which cost $29 or, if you want a free program, 'try Mozilla!' They gave it a good recommendation as a browser too. This is mainstream press folks! All you hard working Mozilla developers, take a few bows. A big thanks from all of us Linux folk too!"
Reading the online article that accompanies the pop-up blocker report requires registering with the site (this involves supplying personal information, including a mailing address) but a streaming video of today's Computer Corner segment can be watched in its entirety without registration (RealVideo 8 format).
Mozilla is also featured in this week's CNET Download.com newsletter (you can subscribe to this and other CNET newsletters at nl.com.com). Read the full article for the opinion of Download.com's Senior Editor. Thanks to Percy Cabello for forwarding this to us.
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#1 ja d
by willll
Wednesday July 9th, 2003 9:23 PM
No matter how much public Moz gets, it never seems to hit critical mass.
#2 StopZilla vs Mozilla
by DJGM2002
Thursday July 10th, 2003 3:07 AM
I wonder how many WFAA viewers will be incorrectly thinking StopZilla is related to Mozilla?
#3 No need to register
by CoffeeKing
Thursday July 10th, 2003 6:57 AM
Just turn off javascript, and you can bypass WFAA.com's registration page.
#6 Re: No need to register
by Racer
Thursday July 10th, 2003 1:17 PM
With prefbar, I disabled javascript, clicked on the link to the article, and it showed up right away. Thanks, CoffeeKing, it worked like a charm.
#4 Bock Bock!
by thoffman11
Thursday July 10th, 2003 7:34 AM
"It not only lets you bock pop-up ads"
Finally, someone found a good use for popup ads...Bock beers!
#5 Don't give them your real name
by neilparks1
Thursday July 10th, 2003 10:54 AM
They can make me "register", but they can't make me give them my real name or email address. If they don't send an email with a secret link as part of the registration process, use "me@privacy.net" (an autoresponder set up for uses such as this). If they do need to send you a msg to which a response is required, register first for a free mailbox on www.despammed.com .
#7 Slightly off-topic...
by jareha
Friday July 11th, 2003 11:30 AM
I wonder why CNET Networks doesn't own newsletter(s).com?
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