Firefox 3 and Extensions You can't live without - Page 6

RWood · 06-26-2008, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yay !!!! all my brandings are belong to firesomething !!!!! you have no idea how happy that makes me, seriously. crazy space-alien astronaute rabbit, you're my new hero !!!! thanks ! have some karma, as choirs of heavenly angels sing (as opposed to the earth-bound angels, who got booted out of the choir because they were off-key).

(oh, i did it the bump version / edit .rdf file way, in case anyone else is curious. it's sort of like the edit about:config method i used on previous versions, but not global.)

We are happy for you.

zelda_pinwheel · 06-26-2008, 02:24 PM

oh listen, you can be

firesomething brightens my day to no end. i was so sad when it broke, you have no idea.

DMcCunney · 06-26-2008, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh listen, you can be

firesomething brightens my day to no end. i was so sad when it broke, you have no idea.

It is a giggle. Even more so when you customize it by adding your own prefixes and creatures. Mozilla Plasmaplatypus, anyone? How about Mozilla Cosmiccockatrice?

Former lead FF developer Ben Goodger (now at Google) was reported to have fallen off his chair laughing the first time he encountered Firesomething.
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Dennis

zelda_pinwheel · 06-26-2008, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

It is a giggle. Even more so when you customize it by adding your own prefixes and creatures. Mozilla Plasmaplatypus, anyone? How about Mozilla Cosmiccockatrice?

Former lead FF developer Ben Goodger (now at Google) was reported to have fallen off his chair laughing the first time he encountered Firesomething.
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Dennis

didn't you ??? (i did... not just the first time, either)

oh, and here's another one to add : ornithorynque. it means platypus in french. i love both of those words ; just add water, instantly make any joke funnier.

zelda_pinwheel · 06-26-2008, 02:52 PM

oh, also, i apologize for my petulance earlier, i think i was going through withdrawal. i'm feeling much better now.

pshrynk · 06-26-2008, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh, also, i apologize for my petulance earlier, i think i was going through withdrawal. i'm feeling much better now.

It was the Carlin avatar, I tell you!

zelda_pinwheel · 06-26-2008, 03:14 PM

yes, let's blame the carlin avatar. how convenient.

DMcCunney · 06-26-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

didn't you ??? (i did... not just the first time, either)

I didn't fall off my chair.

Goodger was cracked up simply because of the tangled history of the name, which FF had to change twice because of trademark conflicts with other products. (Especially embarrassing when the conflict is with another open source product...)

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oh, and here's another one to add : ornithorynque. it means platypus in french. i love both of those words ; just add water, instantly make any joke funnier.

Thank you. Grabbed!
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Dennis

zelda_pinwheel · 06-26-2008, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Goodger was cracked up simply because of the tangled history of the name, which FF had to change twice because of trademark conflicts with other products. (Especially embarrassing when the conflict is with another open source product...)

see, that actually makes firesomething even *funnier* (as goodger illustrates...). do you know what it *would* have been called, if only... ?

DMcCunney · 06-26-2008, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

see, that actually makes firesomething even *funnier* (as goodger illustrates...). do you know what it *would* have been called, if only... ?

IIRC, first Phoenix, then Firebird.
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Dennis

zelda_pinwheel · 06-26-2008, 04:22 PM

hey, i actually remember firebird, now that you mention it. i'd completely forgotten.

nekokami · 06-26-2008, 04:39 PM

I remember Firebird, and I'd wondered why they hadn't gone with Phoenix. Always nice to get these little historical (and linguistic) tidbits.

DMcCunney · 06-26-2008, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

I remember Firebird, and I'd wondered why they hadn't gone with Phoenix. Always nice to get these little historical (and linguistic) tidbits.

Same problem: someone else already had a program with that name, and there was a trademark collision.

Doing a trademark search is a must when creating a product, but sometimes isn't done. When it isn't, the results can be grimly amusing.

Some years back, NBC decided it was time for a graphic facelift, and hired top design firm Chermayeff and Giesmar to do a new logo and typographic scheme for them. C&G told NBC they had not done a trademark search, and that NBC needed to check before using the new logo. NBC didn't.

It turned out a small PBS station in Nebraska had been using a logo similar to what C&G designed for NBC for years.

NBC settled with the PBS station for a $25,000 fee and the donation of half a million worth of studio gear that was obsolete by NBC standards, but still a generation ahead of what the PBS station had.

The Art Director at the PBS station was quite pleased with the deal his station got, and happy to create a new logo.

NBC had a red corporate face and was snickered at for years in the design community.

The Mozilla folks were a bit red-faced over FF's name problems, too, but were capable of seeing the humor in the situation.
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Dennis

nekokami · 06-26-2008, 04:53 PM

I remember hearing about that NBC situation! I'm glad the PBS station got a good deal out of it, anyway.

RWood · 06-27-2008, 05:55 PM

Zelda, I didn't do anything special, Firesomething just worked although now I'm wondering how. At first I looked to make sure that I hadn't slipped back a version and somehow gotten a copy of FF2 running in place of FF3. Of well, Thunderparrot here says it is not FF2 and one should never argue with a Thunderparrot.

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06-26-2008, 02:24 PM	#77
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh listen, you can be firesomething brightens my day to no end. i was so sad when it broke, you have no idea.

06-26-2008, 02:52 PM	#80
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh, also, i apologize for my petulance earlier, i think i was going through withdrawal. i'm feeling much better now.

06-26-2008, 03:14 PM	#82
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	yes, let's blame the carlin avatar. how convenient.

06-26-2008, 04:22 PM	#86
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	hey, i actually remember firebird, now that you mention it. i'd completely forgotten.

06-26-2008, 04:39 PM	#87
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I remember Firebird, and I'd wondered why they hadn't gone with Phoenix. Always nice to get these little historical (and linguistic) tidbits.

06-26-2008, 04:53 PM	#89
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I remember hearing about that NBC situation! I'm glad the PBS station got a good deal out of it, anyway.

06-27-2008, 05:55 PM	#90
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Zelda, I didn't do anything special, Firesomething just worked although now I'm wondering how. At first I looked to make sure that I hadn't slipped back a version and somehow gotten a copy of FF2 running in place of FF3. Of well, Thunderparrot here says it is not FF2 and one should never argue with a Thunderparrot.