What Is The Book Of Mozilla?
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.
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That is so damn cool!
hey Michael, Mozilla.org have a really twisted sense of humor
For who might care:
One time, I got a wild hair and wrote these:
And while the Beast unified the world under the fire of foxes, Mammon
slept, but never in its long sleep didst it rest, for it plotted the
coming revenge of the seventh explorer of the forest’s domain. But yea
though the seventh explorer did shine, it was only a trick to fool the
fools and devour their souls in locusts upon the arrival of the eighth
explorer to end the fire’s reign.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:10
And the seventh explorer forced those still in the old Milena to
renounce their old ways and convert to the new experience of Mammon’s
spies. And of those who refused, the explorer turned its back and
unleashed its upon the land. The cursed needed only call and the fire
with the cunning of foxes appeared from the shadows covered in light and
the evil of Mammon’s plague died instantly for it could not live in
light. The fox’s fire left its son named three. Three protected them to
the end of days.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:11
And three developed and was developed by its people and soon it was
ready to be tested for it had gained the mark ϐ as it had lost its
original symbol Α. It was poured with acid, but the acid could not harm
or defame Three ϐ. And a barrage of arrows bombarded it, yet its fur
was like a flaming wall of bricks and it could not be harmed. In its
fifth year, it has become nearly ready to recive the symbol of adulthood
Ω. The third fox of fire grew and as it grew covered Antartica of the
Tux Penguins, and of the tropics of apples. Nay could it stop there as
it spread on to the sun and three blanketed the universe. And in the
stars it shown its image thought it was reverse. And not a creature
remained that did not know now of the fox of fire’s power of three times
the strengh is predecessor.
From the Book Of Mozilla 11:12
But as the fox spread, an unbeliever spoke lies and blasphemed the fox
disglorifying it. His voice shattered as a window whenever he spoke and
he promoted the ugly Mammon and the glass-shatterer. He compared the fox
to the sixth explorer who was at its dying age. The foul demon showed
errors in the fox’s add-on armor though he was just as strong with it
astray. The fox ignored him and continued to do its job for those who
were sane and believed truth.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:13
And the fox built a great tower so that even those who had no light,
for it was being blocked by the evil Mammon, could see the fox’s fire’s
expansion of love, peace, and protection from Mammon and its followers.
The great fox though spoke its own tongue offered to learn the
explorer’s to silence their rejection once and for all. The fox fooled
the explorer and its strongholds and now had even control of Mammon. The
belivers prospered.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:14
And to the smiths of the realm the fox lent its heart and became two.
One was the fox of fire and the other a delightful flock of birds. And
the Beast looked upon its now two sons and saw that they were good. And
the Beast warned them of the eighth explorer. It told of the explorer’s
future attempt on the fox’s tie to Earth and how to prepare itself. It
told the young fox to go to its wife and make another offspring. It also
warned that the believers be equipped with the tools that would prevent
Mammon’s barrage of darts toxic to the mind. They had to repair the
weapons and shields of the fox with a quarter of the Earth.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:15
And the fox called to its wife, a bird of thunder, and asked her to
join its cause and together they made a monkey that dwells in the sea.
The monkey would be a messenger to those drowned by Mammon’s mistakes
and crimes. The monkey spread the love and knowledge and the believers
grew legion.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:16
And the believers created with the fox and spread its love to all who
accepted its gift, and the fox became like a god. But the explorer
spread only hatred to the unbelievers and many accepted the gift, and
the explorer became a demon in the eyes of its followers.
From the Book of Mozilla 11:17
Jon, all I can say is that you have written a brilliant fable of good and evil. You have shown the evil ways of the Mammon and his follower the explorer. A story of apocalyptic proportions. Bravo!