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"Might I suggest a better browser?"
matthias00
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What's with the little Firefox ad at the bottom of each page?
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CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Ramius bought a can of worms at the store. He then took it home, and opened it.
It's called Mozilla Firebird 0.7.
or something!
No, I doubt it, I think it's more probable that it's to help cut down on the amount of people who have problems with Iexplore, as well as generally providing a community service.
Or maybe they do, I don't know.
Although considering how many of these threads it has sparked in the past few days, he may just change it to '[Search] - May I suggest you search before starting a new thread?'
Yes, the most likely conclusion is that the Mozilla Foundation, a group funded solely by donations, is paying Penny Arcade to advertise them on the PA forums index page.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
That's what I was getting that, although I wasn't 100% sure that mozilla didn't have some from of advertising, so I declined to say it.
Although they do sell the odd thing, from their store
Seriously, though, It was just my little advertising donation to the Mozilla folks. I don't see what all the controversy is about. Other than the fact that people around here seem to thrive on controversy. We weren't hacked by a Mozilla evangelist, you can safely assume any changes made to the boards were made with the approval of either me, alpha, or both, since we are the only ones who have both access to the code, and an understanding of how to modify it.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Thunderbird is the e-mail app.
I see, that clears some of the mystery up. Which way did they change it? Cause my firebird is only about a month old.
They changed it because the open source community couldn't pick a marketable name if their lives depended upon it.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
They take it to mean "a better browser than the one you are using", when I really meant, "a browser which is better than your average browser".
Sort of like Papa John's pizza says, "Better ingredients, Better Pizza" They just mean it is better in general. Not better than every possible other pizza. I suppose there is a subtext which implies it is better than the leading pizza, but that also applies here, because Firefox is better than the leading browser.
Oh, and for the interested, there is an open-source database called Firebird. It is not as widely known as PostgreSQL and MySQL, but it is every bit as good, and they rightfully pitched a fit when Mozilla tried to steal their name. Mozilla are masters of spin, and so you won't much see it reported that they were forced to back down, but in fact, they were.
Was that why my Mozille Firebird browser freaked out and stopped working?
Because I have no clue what happened to it.
Speaking of which, Ramius, when's your next bender?