Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name 479
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."
Actually (Score:5, Funny)
Next step for microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
2. Change name to Internet Explorer
3. apply IE theme
4. Release as Internet explorer 7
5. Profi... oh
I'm calling mine slash dot.dot (Score:5, Funny)
What's wrong with Firefox? (Score:5, Funny)
I like Firefox. What the hell name would I change it to? Who cares anyway?
No, boss... (Score:4, Funny)
This is just IE 7.0. Want me to get a copy for everyone?
Hmmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Random names? (Score:4, Funny)
"...brought to you by a cadre of flaming geese?"
Re:Next step for microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
2. Change name to Internet Explorer
3. apply IE theme
4. Insert SCO copyright code
5. Get sued
6. Profit
Better? (Score:5, Funny)
anti-branding.. i like it! (Score:5, Funny)
How about (Score:2, Funny)
Yay for Mozilla Firespider! (Score:2, Funny)
Browser formally know as... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to call my firefox "Prince"
Re:I know what I want to call it... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Random names? (Score:2, Funny)
FireBlah!
Cool (Score:5, Funny)
Here's to hoping that the Mozilla hackers keep up the technical and political innovations.
Re:Next step for microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Of course using a frigging web browser is the perfect example of ease of use in OSS apps.
Re:On a more serious note, this extension is GREAT (Score:5, Funny)
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.
New open-source strategy? (Score:5, Funny)
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?"
Re:What about Thunderbird? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm running... (Score:4, Funny)
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!
On a technical note (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next step for microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Actually (Score:5, Funny)
Bring out an extention for other apps.
For instance, being able to change OpenOffice to Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. That way you can fool the higher-up's into thinking you have "what everyone else is using".
Save the cash from buying Office and take that money and go on a vacation! Then, when you get back, and before you get charged with fraud, quit and go live in a goat farm somewhere making cheeses.
Ok, I got way off on a tangent there...but you see what I mean.
I Kind of Like "Firesomething" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How about (Score:2, Funny)
one word (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmmm.... (Score:1, Funny)
Letting employees go has never been so easy! (Score:5, Funny)
-Adam
Re:Browser formally know as... (Score:2, Funny)
Book of Mozilla (Score:2, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Extentions are cool (Score:3, Funny)
My browsers name is now... (Score:4, Funny)
You can't take the sky from me.
GUID! (Score:3, Funny)
Mozilla 43c23aa3-7c29-4ce2-96ca-23c751efe5ff 0.9
mIRC and name changing (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Next step for microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it wouldn't.
This isn't a feature (Score:2, Funny)
Re:On a more serious note, this extension is GREAT (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next step for microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
No it isn't. A culture who's primary application of the dictionary is to missuse words.
On that note: Notice how of all the intelectual fields the only ones that are anal about spelling are the technical fields?
Oh sure good spelling is nessisary to be understood but the human brain is able to correct for minnor mistakes so it's hardly worth being anal over.
Doctors prescriptions tend to be illegable.
Scientists pay proof readers.
For writers good spelling skills is a way to save money (As in NOT paying for a proof reader)
So why are techs so anal about spelling?
Maybe the human brain can read mispelled words but the computer can not. Even the slightest spelling error will screw things up badly.
Corprate however only needs spelling so far as to be understood clearly. Byond that... proof readers.
Actually there is ONE other industry where spelling analness is the norm...
Proof readers. However for a proof reader being anal about spelling is a job skill.
Re:Better? (Score:4, Funny)
A beautiful woman walking gracefully down the street, gets her shoe caught in a crack, hits the ground like a sack of rocks, rolls with the momentum a few times and gets up walking away like nothing happened.
Firefox's news strategy: "we ment to do that"
Re:Internet Explorer, The browser formerly known a (Score:5, Funny)
I bet few folks these days would get it but other old fogies like me would probably appreciate the tip o' the hat...
Re:On a more serious note, this extension is GREAT (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:I'm calling mine slash dot.dot (Score:2, Funny)
New name: Fire---s (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Actually (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)
And I was thinking that in the spirit of Firebird and Firefox I'd rename it to Flamebait.
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist... (Score:3, Funny)