Seasons

>> love Firefox
I spent years trying to "love" Opera, even paying for a bunch of 3's and 4's. I finally gave it up as a lost cause. This morning I used it while I was fixing Firefox and sure enough, it backed me into a security corner "for my own good" that prevented me from picking up some things I purchased yesterday (in Firefox).

No password/cookie settings would let me go from the home page to the account page without dropping my login, and I couldn't log in from the account page. I don't even want to know what the problem was. Back to the "compatibility check" afterthoughts in the back room for it.

M

i don't know who firefox is. are they a band?

-Its a browser by Mozilla... but it would make a great band name

Firefox? Yeah - they won the Eurovision yesterday didn't they?

oh right.sorry! lol. now i feel such a thicko

Hey, it wouldn't be a bad name for a band now that you mention it.

YEEHAH! I've got the electric bagpipes!

Given the origin of Firefox, I'll bet it is a a band. A string band of the hoedown variety.

M

I always assumed the name came from the japanese fox spirit the... Kitsune I think it was? who is also a spirit of fire and is depicted in flames a lot of the time?

It may have, but there was a series of books called Foxfire, a few decades ago, very popular with Whole Earth types (c'est moi).

I'd never thought of foxfire as a source for it, but that could be it too. In either the book series context or the original word context.

They both work for me.

The names were a peculiar romp as the product emerged: Gecko, Firebird, FireFox. And then there's Thunderbird. And coming soon to a Window near you, Seamonkey. Who knows?