Fox’s Song

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Original: Mal’s Song (Michelle Dockerey)

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When the pages fly down the internet tubes

And the HTML is rendered to screen

Sometimes it works, if the standard is kept

And the code and the graphics try to be clean

There’s a simple standard, they embrace and extend

If there’s two ways about it, then they choose a third

There were wars we won, and then a war that we lost

Then we freed the code, made a splash that was heard!

It’s called firefox, but it was firebird

Don’t you tell me that I’m just a nerd

[Chorus]

Take my SYN, take my ACK

Drop ‘em and don’t give ‘em back

I don’t care, it’s still free

You can’t take the code from me

Take me to the internet

Just let me perform a GET

From the standards make debris

You can’t take the code from me

When you see a man, and he’s surfing alone

Well you can assume that he’s searching for porn

The righteous forbid it, and sniff to make sure

But men will be men, from the time that they’re born

Religious fanatics and the government hounds

Protecting virtue and censoring you

But my browser’s got 128 bits

Hard core encryption, they can’t break through

Don’t you think I care ‘bout you and your crew

There’s nothing that my browser can’t do

When you’ve read the code, and you’ve seen what I’ve seen

Well you won’t go talkin’ ‘bout leak free code

You’ll see the memory usage go through the roof

Yes running that program is quite a load

I’ve seen browsers crash from Javascript bugs

Seen HTML which good design mocks

With FONT and CENTER, WIRED and BLINK

Non-standard elements by droves and flocks

My God, got to get out of this box

Still I got my browser – that’s Firefox