Skip to main content
Eleven years ago, Firefox 1.0 was released with much excitement and anticipation. With the help of volunteers, The Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page advertisement in the New York Times. Over the last 11 years, Firefox has been been used by millions of people worldwide, becoming one of the most popular web browsers available to surf the Internet.

 

Full article

 

 

Happy Birthday Firefox!

 

Still my favorite browser, by far. 🙂
Agree entirely with you there BD. It feels like I've been using Firefox for longer than 11 years - time is obviously playing tricks with my ageing mind! :S
@ wrote:

 It feels like I've been using Firefox for longer than 11 years - time is obviously playing tricks with my ageing mind! :S

I'm with you there. It definitely feels longer than 11 years. As I get older, time goes faster so things in the past seem further away, I guess. If that makes sense? 🙂
@ wrote:

I'm with you there. It definitely feels longer than 11 years. As I get older, time goes faster so things in the past seem further away, I guess. If that makes sense? :)

I think that it's a function of elapsed time. When we were kids, the summers seemed endless because we were comparing them against our total life experience - which was very little. As we age, every summer is a much smaller proportion of our total life experience.

 

At least that's my theory and I'm sticking to it! 😃
@ wrote:
I think that it's a function of elapsed time. When we were kids, the summers seemed endless because we were comparing them against our total life experience - which was very little. As we age, every summer is a much smaller proportion of our total life experience.

At least that's my theory and I'm sticking to it! :D

Makes perfect sense to me. 🙂

Reply