Until recently, few people would have thought of using “Madagascar” and “Firefox” in the same sentence, but since the latest code name for the latter was released, this no longer seems an unlikely phrase. For those of you who do not know, the 3.6 version of Firefox is called Namoroka, named after a park in the northwest area of Madagascar.
The Mozilla team has already started and maintained a tradition when it comes to promoting free access to software and creative solutions for developing a “health ecosystem of communities” where “a shared space, shared resources or network of ideas, applications and products that are free to use.”
It seems Mozilla developers consider that parks resemble the open source software environment in terms of recreation, collaboration and conservation, not to mention the fact that both concepts are vital ecosystems for their respective fields.
Of course, it is not the first time when Firefox gets its pre-release code named after a park, other examples being Gran Paradiso (Italy), Bon Echo (Canada) and Shiretoko (Japan). Furthermore, the Japanese appeared to be very proud to have inspired the Firefox 3.5 code name that they even created Discover Shiretoko, a website designed for promoting the park with the same name, and to… (read more)