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Firefox 6 team gets congratulatory cupcake from IE rivals


The programmers behind Mozilla's latest Firefox browser, Firefox 6, received a cupcake —a token of appreciation— from their rivals at Microsoft's Internet Explorer team. Jonathan Nightingale, director of Firefox Engineering at Mozilla, said the "cake" arrived on the day Firefox 6 was shipped earlier this month. Thanks Guys "Every time Mozilla releases a version of Firefox, the IE team sends us a cake. They're cool like that. ... As the releases have gotten faster and leaner... so have the cakes," he said in his Flickr account, where he posted the photo of the congratulatory cupcake. Microsoft-related rumor site WinRumors noted Microsoft would send cakes to Mozilla by shipping a cake to Mozilla's team. It said the IE team shipped a cake in 2008 when Mozilla shipped Firefox 3 in 2008, and another last March when Mozilla shipped Firefox 4. But when Mozilla launched Firefox 5 in June, the IE team sent it a cupcake. Tech site CNET said the cupcake appeared to be a little ribbing over the fact that new versions of Firefox arrive more frequently but with a fewer new features. "Under the rapid-release program, new versions of the browser ship every six weeks, which means the change in features from the earlier version is correspondingly smaller. No doubt Microsoft--which is still using the big-change, infrequent-update approach with IE--was poking fun at the new release philosophy when it sent the diminutive cake," CNET said. — TJD, GMA News

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