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| The Book of Mozilla |
about:mozilla這個彩蛋應該已屬廣為人知，不過我最近才知道它不只是個好玩的彩蛋和隱藏關卡的酷炫情節，每個版本都反映了每一個發佈時間點，Mozilla所宣示的歷史道標。在Firefox和所有Gecko核心的瀏覽器中，輸入並前往about:mozilla就能看到當前版本的Mozilla之書，若想查閱所有版本的話除了諸家百科外，也可以參見Mozilla的官方紀錄。
在官方紀錄的網頁上，其實在HTML原始碼中暗藏了詩解，果然是網路文學中隱晦的精粹啊(誤)。另外也可以發現Mozilla在行文中偷偷留了聯絡方式的連結，右鍵檢視原始碼來瞧瞧吧！
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And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days.
from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
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10th December 1994: Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released.
This verse announces the birth of the beast (Netscape) and warns bad coders
(up to Netscape 3, when you watched the HTML source code with the internal viewer, bad tags blinked).
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And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)
(Red Letter Edition)
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31st March 1998: the Netscape Navigator source code was released.
The source code is made available to the legion of thousands of coders of the open source community, that will fight against the followers of Mammon (Microsoft Internet Explorer).
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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
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15th July 2003: AOL closed its Netscape division and the Mozilla foundation was created.
The beast died (AOL closed its Netscape division) but immediately rose from its ashes
(the creation of the Mozilla foundation and the Firebird browser, although the name was later changed to Firefox).
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And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.
from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20
Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)
(10th Edition)
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9th November 2004: Firefox 1.0 is officially released.
The worldwide support of Firefox fans leads to its success, illustrating the power of community-based open source projects.
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The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new darkness, and the beast abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied. And the beasts brought fire and light to the darkness.
from The Book of Mozilla, 15:1
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15th January 2013: Firefox OS 1.0 froze.
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