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title: "Bye Bye, Gormozilla" date: 2004-07-17 02:55 status: published description: > The gormless Mozilla Support mascot goes AWOL

tags: Mozilla

links:

• url: http://www.mozilla.org/images/support.png
  title: "Gormozilla" description: "Mozilla Support's newly-retired mascot" rel: related type: image/png
• url: http://www.mozilla.org/support/
  title: "Mozilla Support" description: "Gormozilla's former home" rel: related type: text/html

<p>
Hurrah! <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/" title="Mozilla Support - now Gormozilla-less">The Gormozilla has gone!</a>
</p>
<p>
I bet the ugly git was scaring off customers. </p>
<p>
<img src="/byebyegormozilla/gormozilla.png" alt="Gormozilla was a particularly gormless-looking picture of Mozilla - mouth open, eyes staring impassively - complete with a tech-support headset." title="Gormozilla">
</p>
<p>
According to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/html/support/index.html&rev=&root=/cvsroot/">the document history</a>, Gormoz has been out of action for two weeks. Also in the last two weeks, Firefox has been getting many more downloads. Coincidence? </p>
<p>
The official line is that security problems in IE are persuading users to switch. Yeah, right! </p>