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I don’t think the problem was with “phoenix”. It was Project Phoenix (resurrection of the Netscape browser). This resulted in the Firebird browser (Firebird an
by LeFantome 10mo ago
I don’t think the problem was with “phoenix”.
It was Project Phoenix (resurrection of the Netscape browser). This resulted in the Firebird browser (Firebird and Thunderbird). But Firebird was an existing database that objected to the name. So, we got Firefox instead.
At least that is how I remember it.
- lmz 10mo agoWasn't it renamed because of these people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies
- wakawaka28 10mo agoYes, and that was just the start lol... https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-fight/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-f...
- loeg 10mo agoYeah, me too. https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-us/firefox/releases/0.7 https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_...
- wakawaka28 10mo agohttps://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-fight/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-f... All the first 3 names were taken. They probably had to bribe even the holders of the Firefox trademark to get it (though the terms were never disclosed).
- wakawaka28 10mo agoMozilla was sued to rename Firefox (like I said) by one Phoenix Technologies. If I remember right, they picked two bad names before picking "Firefox" but I don't remember the other one.