Credit Where Credit's Due

How to unlock Credit Where Credit's Due in Cheevos by visiting the Firefox credits page, about:credits. Worth 10 XP.

The story

Partner. You went looking for the people.

Every browser you have ever used was built by someone. Thousands of someones, actually, most of whom you will never hear about on the news or see thanked in an interview. Firefox keeps a page listing them anyway. Not a splashy about-us page. A plain, long, scrolling list of names.

Cache thinks about credit a lot, probably because he has never gotten any and has made peace with it. But he cannot stand the idea of a list like this going unread. Every name on it is a person who spent hours, days, sometimes years, on something they believed was worth building for free strangers on the internet.

Cache has a copy of an older version of this page tucked away in the Stash. The list is different now. Names that used to be there are gone. New ones have taken their place. That is not sad to Cache. That is just how the work continues: hands change, the project keeps going.

You read the names. Cache noted that. This is worth keeping.

The catalog entry

ABOUT:CREDITS Acquired: Visited the Firefox credits page. Condition: Comprehensive. Thousands of names. Rarity: RARE. Most people use the browser without wondering who made it. Cache's Notes: Every name on this page is someone who gave their time to something they believed in. Cache has a copy of an older version of this page. The list is different. People come and go. The work continues. This is worth keeping.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

A quick visit to the acknowledgments.

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Type about:credits into the address bar and press Enter.
  3. Scroll through the list.

about:credits displays the Mozilla contributor credits page, a long roster of the developers, translators, and community members who have contributed to Firefox and the wider Mozilla project over the years. It's one of the internal about: pages built into Firefox, alongside better-known ones like about:config and about:support, and it exists purely as an acknowledgment page with no settings or diagnostics on it. Open source browsers rely on contributions from a mix of paid staff and volunteers, and pages like this one are a rare instance of that labor being made visible directly inside the product.

Where it fits in the Stash

Cache keeps a corner of the Stash for the people behind the tools, not just the tools themselves. This page belongs there, filed next to everything else he refuses to let go unnoticed. To meet the raccoon who reads acknowledgment pages all the way through, read the story.