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Stuff it, Firefox

A free time warp with every launch

Can someone please tell me what year it is?

Judging from Firefox it must be circa 2001.  Otherwise, why would Firefox insist on using Stuffit to expand .zip archives?

The year cannot be, say, 2009, because by then the Mac will certainly have had unzipping capability built-in for years, rendering the clunky and obtrusive StuffIt completely obsolete.

Now, if I can only figure out how to get my Mac to stop syncing the system clock forward to 2009…

Posted by Philip Haine on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 5:51 am.
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