{"id":531,"date":"2004-02-11T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:32","slug":"something_new_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/11\/something_new_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Something new in the hen house."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s been a couple of days now and I&#8217;m just starting to get used to the new name of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">Mozilla Foundation&#8217;s<\/a> flagship stand-alone browser.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always used the Mozilla suite, even despite the fact that I only install the browser component.  Originally it was Phoenix, then it was renamed to Firebird.  Just a couple of days ago, they&#8217;ve renamed it again to Firefox.  I&#8217;m just not that keen on its UI &#8211; it looks far too much like an IE clone to me.  Plus I miss some of the preferences that are exposed in the Mozilla UI &#8211; even though I do know how to set them manually in &#8230; Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the name.  It didn&#8217;t sound right to me at first.  Now, I no longer have to correct myself as often when I think about it.  Still, however, I&#8217;m constantly reminded of both the Clint Eastwood movie and a certain reference to a female vigilante squad from Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s Pulp Fiction.  When version 5.0 of Firefox comes out it will be even more reminiscent.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully they won&#8217;t run into even more political \/ legal problems with their product name.  It would be a shame if they had to change it yet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s been a couple of days now and I&#8217;m just starting to get used to the new name of the Mozilla Foundation&#8217;s flagship stand-alone browser. I&#8217;ve always used the Mozilla suite, even despite the fact that I only install the browser component. Originally it was Phoenix, then it was renamed to Firebird. Just a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/11\/something_new_i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Something new in the hen house.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}