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World Firefox Day

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the immortalized-in-code dept.

kbrosnan writes "Are you a fan of Firefox? Want to spread the word to a friend who hasn't heard of it yet? If you can convince just one person to switch to Firefox before September 15th, you'll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code."

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  1. Re:Alternative Method by Threni · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Hell yea. My idea of celebrating worldfirefox day is getting the HUGE memory leak squashed.

    It's not a leak it it's intentional - it's simply huge memory usage.

  2. Re:What's the point? by vrwarp · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the FAQ: How will our names be included in Firefox 2? If both you and your friend opt-in to have your names included, we'll add your names to an interactive Firefox friends display that will be accessible from within Firefox 2.

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    --vrwarp
  3. NO Mention of source code by linuxci · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's no mention at all on the world Firefox day website that the names will be listed in the source. From what I can see this'll just be a link to a site that lists the names (probably accessible from the 'about' box). So there'll be no bloat to the source, not even as a comment.

  4. Re:self-fulfilling prophesy? by smokeslikeapoet · · Score: 4, Informative

    I assume that all the names would be inserted into the code as comments, meaning the names won't be compiled into the binary. I'm not a cvs master or anything but I assume you can exclude the directory that contains the names when you update your source locally.