{"id":12063,"date":"2007-11-27T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T21:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/27\/what-goes-around-comes-around-2.html"},"modified":"2007-11-27T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T21:10:18","slug":"what_goes_around_comes_ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/what_goes_around_comes_ar.html","title":{"rendered":"What goes around, comes around …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelson observed<\/a> a few weeks ago (as I catch up with browsing):<\/p>\n

\n

Five years ago, Mozilla was forced to rename<\/a> the Phoenix web browser because Phoenix Technologies was working on an in-BIOS browser that would let you get on the internet and troubleshoot\/download drivers\/etc. even if your operating system was trashed. It became Firebird, and then Firefox<\/a>. The Phoenix product has finally been released<\/a>. Ironically<\/a>, it\u2019s evolved into an embedded Linux distro that runs … Firefox.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Les notes that Firefox 3 beta 1 is now available for download<\/a> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kelson observed a few weeks ago (as I catch up with browsing): Five years ago, Mozilla was forced to rename the Phoenix web browser because Phoenix Technologies was working on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25408,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/an-interesting-perspective-on-chrome-and-firefox.html","url_meta":{"origin":12063,"position":0},"title":"An interesting perspective on Chrome and Firefox","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jan-12 11:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If Google is competing in the browser market it Chrome, then why is it signing big-money agreements with Mozilla\/Firefox? 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