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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
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Hurrah! <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/support/" title="Mozilla Support - now Gormozilla-less">The Gormozilla has gone!</a>
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<p>
I bet the ugly git was scaring off customers.
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<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">
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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?
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The official line is that security problems in IE are persuading users to switch. Yeah, right!
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