Happy Birthday Mozilla -or- Open Source can be Delicious

by Grant Robertson Jan 25th 2008

It's no secret, we love us some Firefox around the Download Squad. It's slick, it's fast, it's (generally) stable. So, when we realized that it's been 10 years since the keystone moment of Netscape's open source commitment, we just couldn't help ourselves.

We enlisted Slashfood blogger and professional pastry chef Shayna Glick to help us show Mozilla just exactly how we feel.

Laced in luxurious Swiss buttercream frosting hand applied with love and care, our chocolaty Firefox cake made this milestone just that much sweeter. Check out the gallery for proof that we just can't get enough of our favorite browser, and to settle any running bets about which software blog is the geekiest at heart.

Gallery: Mozilla Birthday Cake

Tags: browser, firefox, food-porn, happy-birthday, mozilla, tweet-this

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Amber Rhea said 1:52PM on 1-25-2008

WANT.

kingkool68 said 2:04PM on 1-25-2008

Do you guys have any more pictures?

kingkool68 said 2:05PM on 1-25-2008

^ That was a joke, but apparently sarcasam tags aren't accepted in comment posts :(

michas_pi said 3:04PM on 1-25-2008

I'm seeing nothing but lies in these pictures.

Anywho, happy birthday, Firefox. I have been faithful to you since version 0.7 beta and haven't touched another browser since then.

Grant Robertson said 4:41PM on 1-25-2008

I'm really confused by your statement, "I'm seeing nothing but lies in these pictures."

Since you've failed to respond to email asking for clarification, I'm going to assume you're just trolling, and doing an exceptionally poor job of it. Great job!

cityoftroy said 5:32PM on 1-25-2008

^I am assuming that was a portal reference^

michas_pi said 7:17PM on 1-25-2008

You are exactly right, cityoftroy, this is a Portal reference.

Mr. Robertson, please forgive me if I have caused any confusion with my original statement. It seems that you have not played Portal yet. I highly suggest this fantastic game to you.

Grant Robertson said 7:39PM on 1-25-2008

The reference was totally lost on me.

GoOrange said 7:28PM on 1-25-2008

Ooh that looks so good!

neko said 10:54AM on 1-28-2008

that cake better be open source too. he needs to post the recipe, the exact way to mix the food coloring to get those colors, and a stencil for the fox shape.

Anatoliy Roytberg said 4:42PM on 4-20-2008

Im translator multy language for mozilla

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