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Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-get-bloated-so-fast dept.

halfEvilTech writes "Five years ago today, Mozilla released Firefox 1.0. Ars celebrates the occasion by taking a trip back in time to revisit our classic coverage of the original release." For fun, we dug up the oldest Slashdot Firefox story, which was a Firebird story proclaiming yet another name change from Feb '04. At least this name change stuck.

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  1. A cake is in order by danbert8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think Microsoft should send them a cake to celebrate.

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    1. Re:A cake is in order by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      A "Thanks for trying but we are still #1" cake?

    2. Re:A cake is in order by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      lol! elrous0 strikes again with his knowledge of yesteryear's pop culture references

    3. Re:A cake is in order by WED+Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

      A big, ever bloating cake that is all flavors to everyone, that allows you to extend it with pie and ice cream and allows you to skin it so it looks like a steak.

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  2. So bloated... by Ardeaem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on, Firefox has such bad feature bloat. I just use Emacs-w3m to surf. It's just as nice, but instead of feature bloat, you get the web via Emacs!

    1. Re:So bloated... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      bad feature bloat

      Emacs

      You broke my sarcasm meter. Thanks.

  3. Anyone using Lynx? by rmcd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just curious to know if I'm alone. As the web has gotten more bloated (not just firefox), I find I use lynx more for quick, routine checking of websites. And you can script it.

    I like firefox a lot, but sometimes Lynx is better.