It’s at times like this that I wonder what’s the effect of too much eggnog during the holidays.

The guys at Mozilla Foundation decided that it was time to stab a wooden stake at Microsoft Internet Explorer’s cold dark heart. They released a video on Youtube which apparently is part of a larger viral video campaign set to increase the usage of Firefox in Windows powered computers.
It directly targets Internet Explorer in several ways. Firefox adoption number have been constantly rising and this campaign comes as a surprise.

The video is done in a “We are the world” style with several internet memes singing a Firefox themed song.
You’ll find Chocolate Rain’s Tay Zonday and the Ninja from Ask a Ninja. Some other guys that i don’t recognize make singing appearances as well.

But the video doesn’t stop there, besides praising Firefox goodness it uses obviously fake statistics reporting that Internet Explorer users are more likely to suffer from high cholesterol or breast cancer.

I think this is a shot on the foot buy Mozilla. Microsoft will certainly file a suite against them, and will probably win. This will probably rally more support for Firefox, but in the end I can’t see anything positive coming to Mozilla Foundation from this open attack at IE.

Via Techcrunch