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by dontdieych 770 days ago
It was 'firebird 0.1' but there is already firebird thing. So changed name to firefox.
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toyg 770 days ago
It was Phoenix first, rebranded to Firebird to avoid confusion with umpteen other existing projects with the same name - including a browser. Unfortunately there was also an existing Firebird (database), so they rebranded again to Firefox.
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NikkiA 770 days ago
And of course, back then there was also Camino/Chimera as the OSX version
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skywhopper 770 days ago
You almost got it. Not quite.
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