Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by pragmatictester » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

Eight Years of Firefox
blog.mozilla.org

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by mmahemoff » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 11:57 AM UTC

Eight years since 1.0, though its history dates back a lot further. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by limpangel » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 11:58 AM UTC

Can't believe it's been this long since I ditched Opera and started using Firefox as my main browser.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by sabret00the » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 11:59 AM UTC

Today is the anniversary of the settled identity crisis that once was. Firefox has served me great for years though and now I can't imagine calling it anything else.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by ed_blackburn » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:05 PM UTC

I remember being at uni (UWE Bristol), downloading the zip and exporting to program files. My mates thought I was crazy until they saw tabbed browsing...wow!

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by barking » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:07 PM UTC

I like firefox a lot, it's the browser I use almost all of the time.

I really like the way firefox allows me to sync bookmarks across devices.

I really like the fireftp add on.

I don't like the way firefox makes me wait sometimes while it updates.

It's really hard to figure out some things.

One time I accidentally forgot to press the tab key after entering my username on log-in and entered my password in the username box (in plaintext). It took ages (even after googling) to figure out how to stop firefox offering my username+password as a log-in suggestion

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by robinwauters » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:10 PM UTC

I really hope this doesn't get down-voted because it's a little promotional, but I posted a video interview with Mozilla's chairwomen Mitchell Baker today, she said some interesting things I think.

http://thenextweb.com/video/2012/11/09/happy-eight-birthday-...

Direct YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCWtvtwhFCk

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by barking » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:10 PM UTC

limpangel wrote: post #3

Can't believe it's been this long since I ditched Opera and started using Firefox as my main browser.

I can't believe that it's only 8 years since firefox started

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by barking » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:13 PM UTC

ed_blackburn wrote: post #5

I remember being at uni (UWE Bristol), downloading the zip and exporting to program files. My mates thought I was crazy until they saw tabbed browsing...wow!

I'd forgotten how cool that was at the time.

Re: Eight Years of Firefox

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Post by jonnymkramer » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:20 PM UTC

ed_blackburn wrote: post #5

I remember being at uni (UWE Bristol), downloading the zip and exporting to program files. My mates thought I was crazy until they saw tabbed browsing...wow!

hah weird seeing another UWE person on here. What are you doing now?