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nosymoz on Oct 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: What I Love about Mozilla

I still find it odd that the "mission" collides with the origins of the name "mozilla" standing for mosaic killer.

Mozilla public name was renamed to netscape and introduced support for the dreaded frames it strated the trend of stupid user-agent sniffing which then lead internet explorer to pretend to be mozilla and then came the browser wars. Not exactly in tunes with the "mission".

panacea on Oct 7, 2013 [–]

Probably not a brilliant branding exercise to intimate you're a dinosaur out-the-gate, either.

'We're the Rosetta Stone of cutting edge tech! Rawr! Rarw? Rarw.'

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