by Anura Guruge
on August 10, 2021
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I heard about the great, praiseworthy ‘Foxfire Appalachian Heritage‘ project on the radio (most likely ‘NPR’) a few weeks ago. I made a note to look it up. I (given my eternal fascination with names) was also curious as to how Foxfire related to FireFox.
Way back, c. 2003, I was an early & enthusiastic adopter of FireFox. In those days, anything was better than ‘Internet Explorer’. I was a user & huge advocate of FireFox for at least a decade. Then, like so many, I defected to ‘Chrome’. I kind of think I knew, at some point, that FireFox came from a name for the ‘red panda’ — as depicted in the stylized logo. But, I sure did not remember that till I looked it up again. How many of you remember the red panda connection?
I don’t think I had ever come across the term ‘Foxfire’. I might have seen foxfire, but I can’t be sure.
I sure was impressed with the Foxfire project. That is wonderful. So, that was the purpose of this post. To tell you about Firefox vs Foxfire & draw your attention to the heritage project. I think I have done my job. Over to you.
