It's pretty wonderful that people like Firefox so much that they want to have parties to celebrate the release of version 2.0....

More than 500 parties are planned as of today.

One thing you can be sure of, there won't be any user-generated parties to celebrate the release of Microsoft's Vista, unless Edelman (who's handling the launch) sets them up.

The parties fit right into my theory that what's new online is offline. People want to get together with other people who share their online interests, and a Firefox party is as good an excuse as any.