Re: Firefox 1.5 released

VK wrote:

> And so at last the beast *fell* and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all
> was not lost, for from the ash rose a *great bird*. The bird gazed down
> upon the unbelievers and cast *fire* and *thunder* upon them. For the
> beast had been *reborn* with its strength *renewed*, and the followers
> of *Mammon* cowered in horror.
>
> from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
>
> (get your copy of Firefox and type in about:mozilla in the address bar)

That particular "page" of The Book of Mozilla, where the Book feature
at about:mozilla is around since NN 1.1, is there since the days the
stand-alone Mozilla/5.0 browser was still called Firebird[1], hence
the notion of the "great bird" that "cast[s] fire [...] upon them".

"7:15" indicates July 15, _2003_, the date of the Netscape browser
division shutdown ("at last the beast [Mozilla] fell") by AOL/TW
("followers of Mammon") after their acquisition of Netscape Comm.
Corp., and the foundation date of Mozilla.org ("for from the ash
rose a great bird", "For the beast had been reborn with its strength
renewed") :)

There is no need to install Firefox 1.5 just to see this, any
Mozilla/5.0-based browser with Release Version (rv) greater than
or equal to 1.5 (Firefox 1.5 is based on rv:1.8) should do.

See also:
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla>
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communications_Corporation>

However, that is quite off-topic here!

PointedEars
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[1] some of us probably remember that the developers of the OSS Firebird DB
    engine were not amused by this, hence the subsequent change of name
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:33:35 2005