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Firebird was the browser's name, after phoenix and before rebranding to firefox.
by prmoustache 7mo ago
Firebird was the browser's name, after phoenix and before rebranding to firefox.
- dizhn 7mo agoFirebird was actually the database whose name they hijacked when they had access to AOL's legal army. Also K9Mail is now Thunderbird for Android.
- prmoustache 7mo agoThey didn't really hijacked anything. Firebird made sense coming from phoenix. It wasn't a good choice considering the database existed before but it wasn't really an hijack in the sense that both are significantly different product that trademarks wouldn't have clashed. It was just annoying when doing web searches (similarly to gemini the google AI product vs the protocol).
- dizhn 7mo agoIt wasn't that simple. I couldn't find Firebird's original position post but this is close enough. https://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3097.html https://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3097.html
- Foobar8568 7mo agoSo it wasn't used before Thunderbird, that was the point of OP and myself. We were talking about the email client(!). And I was an user of firebird, the database.
- prmoustache 7mo agoYes that is a confirmation.