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 Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2024 11:43 am Post subject: Firebird Now Firefox |
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| Hello all, now is the time to download your favorite browser again. Firebird is now released as firefox .8
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munky
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2024 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Time to emerge -u!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2024 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 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 also decided to changed 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. |
http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-02-09.html
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2024 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| There it is again, that spirit of cooperation where software titles change without lawsuits. Thanks for the heads up, and I'm gonne get this version ASAP.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2024 4:29 am Post subject: Mozilla holds 'fire' in naming fight |
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| Quote: | Ten months after landing in a fierce trademark dispute with a fellow open-source organization, the Mozilla Foundation has changed the name of its standalone browser from Firebird to Firefox.
The new browser--meant to be a streamlined version of the present Mozilla browser, which has been criticized because of its size--has gone through three names before even reaching Version 1.0.
The original name "Phoenix" encountered trademark difficulties, so Mozilla renamed it "Firebird," sometimes considered a synonym for the self-immolating, immortal bird.
Then Mozilla got an earful from the Firebird relational database open-source development project. That group was concerned that confusion would result from the name, even though one applied to a database and the other a browser.
Mozilla at first stonewalled but later yielded under pressure from the older Firebird's development community.
But even the concession Mozilla made at that point--to refer to the browser strictly as "Mozilla Firebird"--didn't resolve the issue. A subsequent decision to adopt the name "Firefox" also ran into trouble when Mozilla found that a U.K. company held the rights to that trademark. Some months passed before Mozilla could reach an agreement to use the mark in the United Kingdom. A Mozilla representative declined to disclose the company or the terms of that agreement.
With Firefox, Mozilla hopes to put its trademark difficulties behind it.
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mr_ed
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Doh! You can't win!
Anyway... I am now using 0.8 at work. Very nice.
The Windows Installer was slick, and it kept all my settings from 0.7 even though 0.7 isn't "installed" anywhere. Did it scan my drive for "MozillaFirebird" or what?
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shebang
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2024 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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usually it is located at:
C:\MozillaFirebird\MozillaFirebird.exe
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Germ
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2024 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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"...even though one applied to a database and the other a browser. "
I could understand if both were the same category of software. It just seems kinda stupid to me since they are different.
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