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it was called the phoenix browser.

• sedatk 3y ago
  The lightweight fork was called "Firebird", and when they learned that the name was taken by, I believe, an RDBMS, they switched to Firefox.
  • midasuni 3y ago
    It was called Phoenix. It was renamed to firebird later.
• mkl 3y ago
  ...because the goal was for it to rise from the ashes of the failed Netscape rewrite.