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Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name
Rovaedne writes "Mozilla
Firefox , the web browser
formerly known as Firebird,
formerly known as Phoenix, has a new extension which allows you to change the name to something palatable. The extension called
Firesomething lets users change the name seen in the browser titlebar, Help menu, and About dialog, thus erradicating all traces of "Firefox" in
Firefox (currently version 0.8). There is a
name change FAQ, but it currently does not mention this extension. This extension should hopefully help curb some of the criticism that Mozilla has received from its most recent
choice of name."
it's primary function is to randomise the browser name to avoid name clashes. I'm currently browsing in mozilla firebunny, for example.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
1. Get Firefox ..wait... ;)
2. Change name to Internet Explorer
3. apply IE theme
4. Release as Internet explorer 7
5. Profi... oh
I'm calling mine slash org dot.dot so I can use slash dot dot dot to go to aytch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot dot org... Because it's no sillier than 4 name changes in 12 months.
Remember: YOU HAVE TO THINK IN RUSSIAN!
I like Firefox. What the hell name would I change it to? Who cares anyway?
This is just IE 7.0. Want me to get a copy for everyone?
Along the lines of the post above, I could call it "Internet Explorer" and just tell my employees that M$ released an "upgrade." I could do away with the "real" IE once and for all in one fell swoop.
/me heads for early Saturday in the office while everyone is gone
"...brought to you by a cadre of flaming geese?"
So now it has an infinite number of names? Great...
Phoefirebirdfox ?
The browser choice for the discerning balrog spider!
All this "The browser formally known as..." stuff. :)
I'm going to call my firefox "Prince"
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Well, you could append a random 4- or 5- letter code to Fire. It may not always be intelligible, but, eventually, you could get something!
FireBlah!
I really like this, hadn't know it existed. Now that I'm running FireBush, my entire browsing experience has become faster, leaner and a whole lot less intrusive.
:-)
Here's to hoping that the Mozilla hackers keep up the technical and political innovations.
At least my daughter was easier to set up.
Yeah, the initial set up is quite easy (especially if you are not the female). But just wait for your daughter to become a teenager.
Could this be used as legal immunity for linux? So, when SCO decides to sue someone for having an unlicenced linux kernel, they just reply with something like, "Sorry sir McNeal, but I checked this morning.. and what do you know, we actually run Mozillix, Fenix and Bollox... but not linux?"
Christ they already have the cars running windows, we should at least be able to read our email while our BMW's brakes fail.
Nutzilla Firecock. I wonder what other names people have come up with.
:)
After this article, I'm hoping the Slashdot editors go through the logs and find the funniest client names and post a list (after a few days for people to play with names). I can't wait to see what you bastards come up with!
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
This is all swell and spiffy, but do we need to standardize an environment variable for browsers, as there is for editors, so that we can still use the system effectively in terrifying presence of 'Leonid_Brezhnevs_eyebrows-er'?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I vote we get Mozilla to change the name of Firefox PERMANENTLY to "Firesomething". :P
thundercougarfalconbird
"Hey Carol, why is my browser named 'Fired' and defaults to loser.com?"
-Adam
about:firefox
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
about:firesomething
And there was a great commotion among the believers and nonbelievers alike, for they saw a great fox of fire and knew not its true nature. But just then a faithful believer extended his hand, and offered a gift to the fiery fox. And the fox was enabled to show its true nature as an ever-changing being, and it turned into a great oyster of power. And the oyster opened its shell, revealing a dazzling pearl to all who would look upon it.
from The Book of Mozilla - Extended Edition, 8:12
Finally I can run Internet Explorer in Linux. Now if i can just get a name change extention for OpenOffice.org
With all the time I spend exploring all these neat extentions, my boss suggested to me that I call my browser YoureFired.
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
Firefly!
You can't take the sky from me.
Of course, the answer lies in GUID, which is guaranteed to be unique even across the universe. So no more painful name switching of Firebird to Firefox to Firephoebe, just use
Mozilla 43c23aa3-7c29-4ce2-96ca-23c751efe5ff 0.9
Sorta kinda off topic but....
Back in "the day" there were those programs that you could run that would display ads while you were browsing the web. Basically it was a strip along the bottom of your screen. It checked for mouse/keyboard movement and made sure the the foremost window had the name of "Internet Explorer". Well I never browsed the web for more than 15 minutes or so but I was on IRC for hours on end using mIRC. And mIRC let you change the name that was shown in the title bar. So I changed it to "Internet Explorer" and... voila! I received a check from the company the next month for about $25 or so... but I got bored of looking at ads and never did it after that.
They just needed to set one string variable to the current name of the browser. It's much easier to edit that than go through all the code every 3 months to change the name.
Yeah, I was thinking of using this plugin to rename Mozilla to something like Mosaic 0.93b
I bet few folks these days would get it but other old fogies like me would probably appreciate the tip o' the hat...
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Mozilla is, what we refer to, in theorerical computer science, as, 'Emacs Complete'. This means that it would be a fairly straightforward exercise to implement Emacs in XUL.
The upshot of is is that, if somebody were ever able to implement Mozilla in a non-bloated way, we'd have a non-bloated Emacs & by extension, have non-bloated versions of countless other programs.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Pronounced: firedashes
In Soviet Russia, the browser picks YOUR name.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!