MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is five years old today. They've got a fifth anniversary section, containing a message from their founder, a chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), some trivia (who's bright idea was Music to Code By?!) and an acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!"

Comments

Picoseconds?

[rolocroz]

from the how-many-picoseconds-is-that dept.

5 years = 1.5778463 x 10^20 picoseconds. I love Google's calculator.

Re:Picoseconds?

[*xpenguin*]

For the uninformed:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=5%20years%20in%20p icoseconds

I hope for their sake..

[CooCooCaChoo]

They're not singing that awful song, "Every walking the dinosaur" ;-)

5 years, small number of donations and it has become the corner stone of the Mozilla advocacy and users groups. 2 years, $40billion in the bank and Microsoft is still trying to creat that "community atmosphere". Maybe we should bottle some "community atmosphere" from Mozilla and sell it to Microsoft ;-)

Re:I hope for their sake..

[The Almighty Dave]

Maybe we should wish in one hand and shit in the other, then see which one fills up faster.

Microsoft is a corporation. they are not trying to create "community atmosphere", they are trying to sell a product. If projecting the illusion of "community atmosphere" will help them market that product, then they will try to create that illusion. They care about profits, nothing more, nothing less.

Re:I hope for their sake..

[SunPin]

Every few months, I've given Mozilla a try just to keep the faith. This summer, 1.5 Beta found a permanent spot on my drive as the undisputed default browser/mail application. I just happened to avoid the sobig disaster because of it.

Firebird looks slick but it's not ready for primetime quite yet. I like Thunderbird as well and I look forward to seeing it fully developed.

The Mozilla Organization is a terrific example of open source producing something much better and even more innovative than commercial competitors.

Internet Explorer cannot hold a candle to Mozilla 1.4/1.5. As people that were sitting on the fence decide to get involved (like myself), IE will have no reason to return even in 2008. It's completely over for IE.

Mozilla is a victory for open source software. It's not a "me too" project that seeks to replicate IE to spite M$. More projects can/will learn from the Mozilla example. Microsoft is running out of time to open its software. Eventually, the OSS options will be better and widely known to the public.

Re:I hope for their sake..

[whereiswaldo]

Internet Explorer cannot hold a candle to Mozilla 1.4/1.5.

I totally agree. But you know, Microsoft could have added Mozilla's features into IE with no significant technical problems. Why they haven't added advanced features into IE, in part, is because of their corporate agenda. This goes especially for ad blocking. Microsoft is the ad agency's friend. Mozilla is the user's friend. Microsoft pretend's to be the user's friend, but the veneer is wearing off.

Firebird

[kgbspy]

It took them five years to do it, but they've come up with the best web browser known to man: with daylight second, and Opera third.

Here's hoping that the next five years sees the same committed focus to Firebird as has been poured into Mozilla.

Re:Firebird

[kgbspy]

Y'know... when you've been up until 4am debugging somebody else's badly written code, you finally get to sleep, and the garbage truck / noisy neighbour / dog next door wakes you up a few hours later. You get up, open the curtains, and this strange, transluscent, yellow stuff filters into your room.

That's daylight.

Re:Hmmm.

[Joe Tie.]

Not to mention that it's to a fire breathing dragon.

Re:Hmmm.

[bsharitt]

I was going to send an e-card, but the site said I needed IE 4 or higher.

Hmmm

[ewithrow]

From the timeline:

MozillaZine asks its readers to pay the site's hosting fees. Much to our surprise, you do.

Not a lot of confidence in their reader base.. ;)

Mozillazine deserves kudos...

[Fnkmaster]

I know a lot of Slashbots seem to think that all geekdom is required to mindlessly support Mozilla, and that it has always been that way. But I remember a time in days of yore when Mozilla was the project everybody loved to hate. It was _the_ example of Open Source gone awry - here's how not to open up your product, here's how not to manage an open source project, etc. And back then Mozillazine was a quiet place - but Chris kept it running, and a small gang of the faithful hung out, waiting with baited breath for the next Milestone, hoping against hope that it would be faster, better and... oh, never mind, it couldn't get cheaper.

Anyway, the point is, these days the majority of us - geekdom, that is - use Mozilla or a Mozilla-derived browser (Galeon and Phoenix/Firebird). Mozillazine deserves a lot of credit for keeping the fan base alive during the long, dark period of time when it wasn't really clear that Mozilla was ever going to succeed. Thanks, Mozillazine, for giving me hope and keeping me and a lot of other hopeful users fed with info and inspired to stay involved and keep the project going.

Simple, you cannot sell or purchase

[PotatoHead]

people that actually give a shit. Everybody knows Microsoft is here to make their cash pile larger at any cost.

The Mozilla folks are here to make sure we have a good browser that runs on what we choose to run it on.

loving firebird

[planckscale]

This browser *in use now* is my newest best friend (I know, sad huh). Simple, elegant, tabs, history, caches, privacy, and it's download manager are all that I need. Also, it just performs faster, blocks popups, it's free and just seems to have more for my money. I'd like to see better plug-in support; java, shockwave, Wild tangent and some other plugins aren't exactly mindless installs in some cases. Also I would like to see Firebird run in memory in the background like Mozilla does, and a download "acceleration" with mulitple FTP sites would be a bonus. Otherwise, it's my favorite DEFAULT browser :-)

What better way to celebrate an aniversary...

[rsilvergun]

then with a slashdotting?

Re:Nightly Mozilla builds with AA Support compiled

[ishmalius]

ftp to:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nightly/latest-trunk

it is:
MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz