Firefox is Firebird, but they had to change the name due to a conflict with another Open Source project that was also called Firebird.
So now we got
Firebird version 0.6
Firebird version 0.7
Firefox version 0.8
quote:
http://mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-02-09.html
The new release also marks a name change for the new browser, which was previously known as Mozilla Firebird. “We are pleased to release a new preview version of Mozilla Firefox,” commented Mitchell Baker, President of the Mozilla Foundation. “To avoid overlap with another open source project, we have decided to change the name of this product from Mozilla Firebird to Mozilla Firefox.”
Along with the new name, Firefox sports a new logo and the Mozilla Foundation is kicking off a grass-roots Get Firefox campaign to spread word about the new browser.
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