the colbert bump for firefox 3

June 18, 2008 in Firefox, Geek, It Came From The Internet, Mozilla, Uncategorized | 14 comments

The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)

  1. Steven Garrity’s avatar

    Steven Garrity on June 18, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Sadly, the Comedy Central site blocks video for visitors outside of the US.

  2. blizzard’s avatar

    blizzard on June 18, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Well that sucks. Find a US proxy server?

  3. Andre’s avatar

    Andre on June 18, 2008 at 10:15 am

    No they dont. I’m streaming the full episodes of both the daily show and the colbert report just fine from Sweden.
    I’ve had some flash issues in Iceweasel on debian, but on my ubuntu lappy it works well.

  4. Dan Dillinger’s avatar

    Dan Dillinger on June 18, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Sadly, the Comedy Central site crashes the browser for me – Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04 – with a Segmentation fault, 100% reproducible.

    Pretty sure it’s the Flash plugin’s fault. Crash report submitted, but it’s likely Adobe’s problem, alas.

  5. Alex’s avatar

    Alex on June 18, 2008 at 7:19 pm

    I just tried with Firefox 3.0 + Gnash, and while the video did not work, the browser also did not crash. I have grown to utterly despise Flash, and Adobe by association.

  6. Pete Zaitcev’s avatar

    Pete Zaitcev on June 18, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Heh, that was amazingly disgusting. Hint: if you do not care for all the leftist garbage he’s spewing, skip past the second black tick at the progress bar. BTW, plugin works fine here on Rawhide (FF3 Minefield 64-bit and nspluginwrapper) with Adobe yum-driven install.

  7. Salvatore Iovene’s avatar

    Salvatore Iovene on June 19, 2008 at 1:16 am

    Works from Finland, Iceweasel on Debian Unstable.
    The guy’s really funny, but I got quite disgusted by the ridiculous abundance of American propaganda. Gee, the amount of American symbols! Stripes, starts, eagles pictured literally everywhere.
    That’s the first time I saw that show, so this whole thing might very well be ironic, or at least I hope so. I hate it when Colbert says something on the line of “isn’t it the final goal? To get rich and famous and crush the others?”.

  8. Murray Cumming’s avatar

    Murray Cumming on June 19, 2008 at 3:00 am

    It’s satire and you may be too.

  9. snerd’s avatar

    snerd on June 19, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Oh noes! Leftists! AIIIEEEEE

  11. Christopher Blizzard’s avatar

    Christopher Blizzard on June 20, 2008 at 9:29 am

    Haha, murray, that’s perfect.

  13. janice’s avatar

    janice on July 8, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    Hey… if you’re in Canada (sorry ’bout that!), you’ll get this if you try the Comedy Central link. Damn, eh?

    I’ve found the Canadian link for you hosers, though. ‘welcome

  14. janice’s avatar

    janice on July 8, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    Got the link wrong… sb this one