Unless you’ve been in hiding for the last umpteen years, you have most likely heard of Mozilla Firefox. But did you know that Firefox is hiding something so incredibly deep and profound? Here’s how you can find it.
Open up Firefox and type the following into the address bar: about:mozilla
If you’ve dotted your i’s and crossed your t’s correctly, then the following should appear:
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
Here’s a screen shot for the squeamish among you.
You may be wondering what all this means. What the heck is Mozilla up to?
In essence, the paragraph is a tale of the death of the Netscape Corporation and it’s exodus from the internet browser world. It Also describes it’s resurrection as Mozilla.
The first sentence describes the death of the Netscape browser, brought upon by AOL, the parent company
‘And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.’
The beast is Netscape.
The next couple of sentences describe the resurrection of Netscape as Mozilla.
‘But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.’
The great bird is a reference to Netscape’s original logo/mascot, a fire-breathing dragon or possibly the name of the original Firefox which was called Firebird.
‘The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them.’
You can almost see the Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird programming team smirking. The word ‘fire’ represents (Firefox) and word ‘thunder’ represents (Thunderbird) . Thunderbird, for those who do not use it, is the free email client from Mozilla . It is my email client of choice.

The last sentence: ‘For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed,and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.’
This sentence is a biblical reference to Mammon, the New Testament’s god of wealth and greed, which is Mozilla’s way of describing the Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft had been the catalyst in the demise of the Netscape Corporation.

That is so damn cool!