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Cool stuff Greg! Tabs are what made me switch away from IE to Firebird.

by dontbenebby 4y ago

denysvitali 4y ago
Firebird?
- kome 4y ago
  Phoenix
  - ews 4y ago
    Correct: Phoenix came before Firebird, which came before Firefox.
    - apocalyptic0n3 4y ago
      At some point, wasn't it also just referred to as the "Mozilla Suite" and was a single do-it-all program? That had to be nearly 25 years ago now and I'm blanking on exactly what it was. Also... 25 years later and I'm still using Firefox daily. Go figure.
      - kmeisthax 4y ago
        Yes. Phoenix was intended to cut down and slim down Mozilla Suite into something less bloated.
      - garaetjjte 4y ago
        Seamonkey is still sort-of alive: https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
        whitten 4y ago
        That looks interesting. Does the code use XUL as a framework and is XULRunner still being maintained?
        garaetjjte 4y ago
        I think they are still using Firefox 56 as a base and backporting security fixes.
      - slightwinder 4y ago
        Mozilla suite was the original Mozilla Browser, which was their continuation of the Netscape Software. Phoenix/Firefox was a brand new browser, rewritten from ground up, based on the new generation-engine (which was later named gecko) on which Netscape already worked when they open sourced. The old suite was simply a mess and too complex, so they created a brand new browser, Firefox. Ironically, Firefox later became a similar mess, because of which they rewrote it to what then was named Firefox Quantum, with which they removed the old XUL-Extensions. And now everyone is unhappy again.
- therealmarv 4y ago
  name of Firefox before they were changing it (they said there was another open source project with name firebird too) https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-us/firefox/releases/0.6 https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
  - flatiron 4y ago
    https://firebirdsql.org/ https://firebirdsql.org/
  - denysvitali 4y ago
    Oh I see! I only knew the Firebase SQL and wasn't aware of the former name of Firefox
    - denysvitali 4y ago
      *firebird sql

Cool stuff Greg! Tabs are what made me switch away from IE to Firebird.

denysvitali 4y ago

Firebird?

kome 4y ago
Phoenix
- ews 4y ago
  Correct: Phoenix came before Firebird, which came before Firefox.
  - apocalyptic0n3 4y ago
    At some point, wasn't it also just referred to as the "Mozilla Suite" and was a single do-it-all program? That had to be nearly 25 years ago now and I'm blanking on exactly what it was. Also... 25 years later and I'm still using Firefox daily. Go figure.
    - kmeisthax 4y ago
      Yes. Phoenix was intended to cut down and slim down Mozilla Suite into something less bloated.
    - garaetjjte 4y ago
      Seamonkey is still sort-of alive: https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
      - whitten 4y ago
        That looks interesting. Does the code use XUL as a framework and is XULRunner still being maintained?
        garaetjjte 4y ago
        I think they are still using Firefox 56 as a base and backporting security fixes.
    - slightwinder 4y ago
      Mozilla suite was the original Mozilla Browser, which was their continuation of the Netscape Software. Phoenix/Firefox was a brand new browser, rewritten from ground up, based on the new generation-engine (which was later named gecko) on which Netscape already worked when they open sourced. The old suite was simply a mess and too complex, so they created a brand new browser, Firefox. Ironically, Firefox later became a similar mess, because of which they rewrote it to what then was named Firefox Quantum, with which they removed the old XUL-Extensions. And now everyone is unhappy again.
therealmarv 4y ago
name of Firefox before they were changing it (they said there was another open source project with name firebird too) https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-us/firefox/releases/0.6 https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
- flatiron 4y ago
  https://firebirdsql.org/ https://firebirdsql.org/
- denysvitali 4y ago
  Oh I see! I only knew the Firebase SQL and wasn't aware of the former name of Firefox
  - denysvitali 4y ago
    *firebird sql