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The History of Mozilla Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there's-gonna-be-a-quiz-at-the-end dept.

Gsurface writes "Flexbeta has an article based on the history of Mozilla Firefox. The article goes build-by-build of every Firefox release since the early Phoenix days noting some of the most significant changes in every release."

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  1. changelog by brontus3927 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that normally called a changelog?

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    1. Re:changelog by DoubleWhopper · · Score: 2, Funny

      Seriously. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Short Attention Sp... Oooh, look! Shiny!

    2. Re:changelog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Actually, USA 2.0 started somewhere around 1791 with the ratification of the Constitution. (USA 1.0 being the Articles of Confederation). There was an attempted fork in the mid-1800's, but the 16th Project Manager, Mr. Lincoln, prevented that from going very far. US History is much more amusing as a changelog.

  2. Wow, the entire history!!! by sgant · · Score: 5, Funny

    From all the way back to...er...two and a half years ago?

    Wow. Good thing we have that written down somewhere, are there even people still alive that remember that far back?

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    1. Re:Wow, the entire history!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I remeber the good ol days when we used to call our stripped down versions of mozilla things like Phoenix and FireBird. But thats way before your time sonney.

    2. Re:Wow, the entire history!!! by Zapper · · Score: 2, Funny

      stripped down *cough*, yeah right.
      great big bloated mess of slow-loading, cpu hogging non-internet explorer goodness. :-)

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  3. whoops by ack154 · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is a problem with the database that is preventing the site from working.

    An email has been sent to the administrator notifying them of the problem. Please try again later.

    That administrator is going to get a LOT of emails. Oh, and I believe that "problem" it's talking about is called Slashdot.

  4. We're looking at the wrong browser... by wcitech · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd be more interested in looking at a brief history of Internet Explorer, for the same reasons that they teach kids history in school. (to prevent it from repeating).

  5. Grrrrr. by flynns · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdotted at two comments. I blame it all on those pesky "subscribers". Slashdotting the page before us commoners can do it.

    What, are we not GOOD enough to slashdot FlexBeta?? HMMM?

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  6. The history of IE by michelcultivo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Day 1: New feature implemented Day 2: 10 bugs discovered today Day 3: Thats 10 bugs give me into another 2 bugs Day 4: New feature that work only with IE (haha netscape guys!!) Day 5: That feature give me another bug (Arrrhh!) Day 6: Where we are going today with this *#*$@!?

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  7. Re:Looks like the history is history by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Mirror

  8. /. Your E-mail by BinaryLobster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Niffty way to enhance the /. effect to include your e-mail server too.

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  9. Re:You know your old skool... by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know your old skool if your school education did not include spelling or grammar.

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  10. Sounds exciting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Coming next: build-by-build history of Linux, including every minor release.

  11. Re:Where can we get the history of slahdot? by justforaday · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why would I want to read about a petrified goatse filled with hot grits? *shudder*

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  12. Another Mozilla Article? by bryan8m · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've lost track of how many Mozilla posts there have been on Slashdot in the past few days. Glad to see it's really starting to catch on though!

  13. Thanks /. ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I'll never get to find out which version of FF I should download. On the other hand, we will at least get to have The History of Flexbeta:

    3:15 Article on FF history posted on Flexbeta
    3:19 Slashdot posts article about Flexbeta's article
    3:20 Smoke starts coming from Flexbeta
    3:21 Sparks fly from Flexbeta
    3:22 Feeding tube is removed from Flexbeta
    3:23 Flexbeta is dead. R.I.P.

  14. Re:Where can we get the history of slahdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where can we get the history of slahdot? That would be interesting!

    That's simple. Just take a 1 000 000 monkeys and make them write text with computers. Save every page they produce and after a few years, you got the whole history of Slashdot.

  15. Re:Where can we get the history of slahdot? by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Where can we get the history of slahdot? That would be interesting!"

    Feb 1st... Mozilla releases a small incremental version update, headline news.

    Feb 7th... Mozilla releases a small incremental version update, headline news.

    Feb 14th.. Mozilla releases a small incremental version update, headline news.

    Feb 15th... Dupe of Mozilla making a small incremental update.

    Feb 19th... Mozilla releases a small incremental version update, headline news.

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  16. Experience by AShuvalov · · Score: 2, Funny

    Experience is that nice thing, which let you recognise your old mistake when you do it again.

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