tedster - 7:35 pm on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

A couple folks above mentioned already being tired of hearing about FireFox - I think we all better prepare for lots more, because the word has just barely begun to leave the web developer community. We're going to hear more and more from the mainstream press, no doubt about it.

Remember when Google first took off - how the buzz spread until all of a sudden it entered the mainstream, became a verb, characters in movies and TV shows began using it and so on? And today the name Google is everywhere. I'm not "tired of hearing about it" because the name has transformed from buzz to part of the world I live in.

I don't know that a browser name will ever pervade pop culture quite that deeply, but the Google example shows how far things can go. I'll bet that very soon more people will recognize the name FireFox than "Unix".

FireFox - you may not like it much or you may be tired of hearing about it, but it is going to continue to be talked about more and more. And me? I'm still an Opera fan!