Will Firefox no longer be named Firefox?

Adam McMaster adam at moosoft.net
Mon Sep 25 13:02:02 BST 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 19:58 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
...
> In the beginning, there's Netscape
> Then Netscape open source their browser and named it, Mozilla
> But Mozilla was very resource hungry, so they create Firebird, a slim
> version.
> And Firebird got very popular in the internet, but the name was
> conflicting with an open source SQL server, so they name it Firefox. 
> But Firefox will no longer use the name Firefox since the name is a
> trademark.
> And now, the fate of the name will just have to wait...

You missed out the period when it was called "Phoenix" :)


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