5 years ago, Firefox (re)entered Debian
5 years ago today, I was declaring Iceweasel dead, and Firefox was making a come back in Debian. I hadn't planned to make this post, and in fact, I thought it had been much longer. But coincidentally, I was binge-watching Mr. Robot recently, which prominently featured Iceweasel.
Mr. Robot is set in the year 2015, and I was surprised that Iceweasel was being used, which led me to search for that post where I announced Firefox was back... and realizing that we were close to the 5 years mark. Well, we are at the 5 years mark now.
I'd normally say time flies, but it turns out it hasn't flown as much as I thought it did. I wonder if the interminable pandemic is to blame for that.
2021-03-10 15:16:02+0900
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2021-03-10 16:43:10+0900
Maybe they just wanted to show off that they were running Debian?
2021-03-10 16:48:58+0900
They were using Kali Linux, a Debian derivative. There’s also an episode where Slackware made an appearance.
2021-03-11 01:49:48+0900
Mr Robot looks interesting, but I have an irrational level of resentment towards it because it was an ill-considered marketing stunt involving Mr Robot that caused many people up lose trust in Mozilla. I still use and advocate Firefox, but that stunt made doing so much harder; people don’t forget incidents like that easily.
2021-03-11 09:25:08+0900
It would be ironic if they used it so they didn’t have to worry about getting permission to use the FF Trademark.