The Return of “From Redmond with Love”

It has been a tradition ever since Firefox 2: Whenever we ship a major Firefox release, the Microsoft Internet Explorer team sends us a congratulatory cake.

This is a fine gesture. Hat tip to our fellow browser makers in Redmond. Remember: Competition is good for business.

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March 22nd, 2011

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Is that for you decide to reduce the time between two version for more cake?

Sorry for my english, I’m french.

51 Gaël on March 24th, 2011 at 8:44 am
Gaël: No worries, your English is great

And yes, we’ll be shipping Firefox faster in the future because we do not get enough cake otherwise. Seemed like the reasonable thing to do!

52 Fred on March 24th, 2011 at 9:04 am
The cake is a lie
thus IE is a lie ?

53 Eregrith on March 24th, 2011 at 11:01 am
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55 News - Firefox 4 leaves Internet Explorer 9 in the dust - Page 2 - HEXUS.community discussion forums on March 24th, 2011 at 5:41 pm
ITS A TRAP

56 a on March 25th, 2011 at 9:42 am
Is it a real cake ? it looks styrofoam made…

Here the cake sent for FF3 release : http://files.cyberciti.biz/uploads/tips/2008/06/ms-ie-cake-to-mozilla-firefox.jpg Almost the same !

57 Iebiku on March 25th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
that looks like a Serial ATA cable in the cake, anyone care to comment on that ? lol

58 Niebr on March 25th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Hah, no that’s not a cable. That’s the kind of sugary material that cake bakers use to make such graphics on top of cakes.

I hope no-one thinks the Microsoft engineers baked this cake, stuffed it into an envelope and had it delivered 900 miles south by a circus bear on a unicycle. While I think that would be pretty awesome, I hate to disappoint by revealing that they just told a local bakery what to draw and where to deliver it when they’re done.

59 Fred on March 25th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
And what are You giving in return?

60 Everybody on April 8th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Aren’t you afraid if might be laced with arsenic?

61 George on November 2nd, 2011 at 4:23 pm