October 30, 2004

Firefox humping Uranus

Just read this in a bug report about the Firefox icon:

The newer firefox icon appears to be a gigantic red panda that is humping South America. [...]

I don't think the fox/red panda is humping South America, it doesn't seem to be Terra that it is humping, but perhaps another planet? [...]

Using 1.0, I see the unknown planet that I mentioned earlier. If Firefox wants to move from the unknown world to Terra, I think we should standardize what planet the browser is humping.

If we standardize on one planet though, what about all the other planets?

I contend that if we're going to abandon earth, we should create a layer between the firefox and the planet, you know, instead of just standardizing which planet we're going to use. It may be difficult and time consuming at first -- maybe even a little bit slow -- but then the fox will be able to hump EVERYTHING!

Saturn, Mars, Jupiter. It will even be able to hump Uranus -- you name it.

Update: This was just supposed to be a funny quote about something completely irrelevant, but unfortunately, this was automatically featured on the Mozilla.org start page. Sorry about this, it was certainly not intentional.

Posted by djst at October 30, 2004 4:36 PM
Comments

I'm from South America (southern South America, to boot) and let me tell you, I dont mind at all. As long as its only Firefox doing this.

Posted by: Vidar at October 30, 2004 1:33 AM

I'm from Central/West South America, I was wondering the same thoughts, which planet is that? By the way, the continents are really strange and if you have seen a world map once in your life you can't indetify any region. This is a minor, but very interesting point.

Regards community

Posted by: Paul at October 30, 2004 1:48 AM

Umm, this weblog post is on the Mozilla homepage.

Posted by: Wesley at October 30, 2004 1:56 AM

Oops! Can someone please remind me what to do in order to exclude a blog post from the Mozilla.org homepage? Was it <!--DONOTFEATURE--> ?

Posted by: David Tenser at October 30, 2004 2:01 AM

http://www.decrem.com/bart/archives/000087.html

Posted by: Wesley at October 30, 2004 2:04 AM

I'm from South America, and I too fail to see why I should be offended. I don't see anything wrong with the Firefox icon (which in fact I think is one of the best icons of all time), only some members trying to stirr up controversy. What a waste of resources. Everybody should ignore this so-called "bug". ;-)

Posted by: MonsterTruck at October 30, 2004 3:01 AM

Actually, don't ignore it, label it as a feature! :D

Posted by: Vidar at October 30, 2004 3:23 AM

This is the first interesting thing I've seen on mozilla.org since the redesign. Thank you!

Posted by: Mike Oligny at October 30, 2004 4:14 AM

I think "FireFox Humping UrAnus" sounds the best esp when talking to microsoft IE. hehehe! it's like telling MSIE, "Hey, i saw Firefox humping UrAnus; isn't it great?"

Posted by: David at October 30, 2004 6:15 AM

You are a dirty little Swede!

Posted by: RAF at October 31, 2004 11:38 AM