MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Sep. 8, 2006 - Almost two years after the debut of Firefox 1.0, and a year after the successful release of Firefox 1.5, Mozilla Corp. today released plans for an instant messaging service, Waterwolf. Mozilla Corp. is teaming up with Google with plans to build upon the success of Google's own Google Talk instant messaging service.

“Mozilla has connected with the global community of Web users because it delivers a fast, easy, modern browsing experience”, said Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. “Google continues to support the growth of Mozilla because of the strong alignment between our mission to organize the world’s information and make it useful, and Mozilla’s principled approach to developing great software.”

“We plan to combine the best of both worlds. We are working on an instant messaging service that people can use to talk with their family and friends in ways they weren't able to before. We will draw in many new users to the improved Web experience it affords,” said Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation. “Firefox is proof of our passion for promoting choice and innovation on the Web and making the Internet accessible and productive. Waterwolf is going to bring that same user friendly feel and accessibility to the instant messaging scene."

“Waterwolf represents the tireless efforts of both our companies, who continue to work to make the Web experience better for everyone,” said Baker.

Mozilla Corp. announced a beta release of Waterwolf should be available as soon as December.

Mozilla Press Contacts:

Mary Colvig
650-762-2820
mcolvig@arpartners.com

Judi Palmer
650-762-2812
jpalmer@arpartners.com
Did I even come close to fooling any of you?

O_o

Cool.

Why?

waterwolf? please. They'd use a NEW mythical creature with a NEW logo. Not a recolored firefox logo.

BUT GOOD TRY FRIEND!

Lawl

Oh great, ANOTHER insant messenger :\

none of you read the fine print

****

interesting...

Hook line and sinker.

-Although I found the E-mails to be a bit out of place, not illusion breaking or anything.

The fact that there's no link to an article with "Discuss" tipped me off before I even read. It just isn't the Massassi style to actually post the article.

Oh Victor, you little scoundrel!

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]The fact that there's no link to an article with "Discuss" tipped me off before I even read. It just isn't the Massassi style to actually post the article.[/QUOTE]

Uhh, I post articles like that all the time.



Those are actually real e-mails at the end of a real Mozilla announcement. :p

Yeah, the way you listed the contacts at the bottom made me doubt it. Everything else was awesome though.

Good thing I bought 25 shares of google 3 weeks ago. my $8500 wont be wasted

You piss me off, I'm looking around slashdot, google, and mozilla for an artical to mail out to half the people I know. I would have used it.

Even if it had been true, it wouldn't have mattered to me a bit. I certainly won't need any more of those pesky instant messenger programs.

A larger image shows the bad photoshop.

I was excited.

Not anymore *evil laugh*