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Correct: Phoenix came before Firebird, which came before Firefox.
by ews 4y ago
Correct: Phoenix came before Firebird, which came before Firefox.
- apocalyptic0n3 4y agoAt 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 agoYes. Phoenix was intended to cut down and slim down Mozilla Suite into something less bloated.
- garaetjjte 4y agoSeamonkey is still sort-of alive: https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
- whitten 4y agoThat looks interesting. Does the code use XUL as a framework and is XULRunner still being maintained?
- garaetjjte 4y agoI think they are still using Firefox 56 as a base and backporting security fixes.
- slightwinder 4y agoMozilla 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.