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by mapgrep 2173 days ago
Doesn’t have anything to do with firefoxes or electroplated chromium either. Shrug.
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Pedantic historical browser etymology note: Firefox began as Phoenix, because it was metaphorically rising from the ashes of Netscape. For trademark reasons, they changed it to Firebird. Then they learned that there was already an open source DB using that name, so they picked Firefox.