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Firefox: the schmutz-blocker

foxAn anecdote about an old man and a Rabbi discussing web browsers in an airport departure lounge sounds like the beginning of a very bad joke. But when the old man in question is the grandfather of Firefox wunderkind Blake Ross, the punchline turns out to be that Firefox has reached a level of market penetration that seems almost divine. Read on for Ross' entertaining (but, I think, somewhat apocryphal) tale.
 

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