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Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names
blazerw11 writes "Phoenix and Minotaur
have been officially renamed to Firebird for the browser and Thunderbird for the mail client. Interestingly, they're both named after cars I often see in my neighbors' lawns. At least these cars were pretty fast before they were put up on cinder blocks. Personally, I like the names and the browser is great. I'm writing this with one of the last Phoenix Nightlies."
Have you tried runtime-compressing the Phoenix binary with UPX? Let me know how it goes.
--Dan
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One issue I see right away is this "Firebird" is not the same as the one found in http://firebird.sourceforge.net/ which could be confusing to people looking for this Firebird (or confusing to the people looking for the other Firebird...)
Why not rename phoenix to "Internet Explorer", just to fuck with M$.
After all "Internet Explorer" shouldn't be allowed to be a trademark in Internet industry, the same argument as Windows being a trademark ?
Plus that way they can get totally clueless joe six-packs to download thinking they are upgrading their IE,
Wow imagine the user base generated by that ?
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
Didn't AMD use Mustang and Thunderbird originally for their chips before they were released?
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What I'd really like to know is...has the old (Netscape) Composer been spun off into its own, stand-alone program? It sounds silly, but I really liked Composer. Simple and straightforward HTML creation. I'd love to see it offered as a stand-alone!
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It's too bad they didn't name [Phoenix] after a motorcycle. It would've made much more sense. Motorcycles are faster, lighter, more compact, more efficient, and way more fun than crappy cars.
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Okay not completely on-topic, but:
I have noticed that RadialContext, which is probably the best thing that happened to browsers since the mouse, is now available for Phoenix, or Thunderbird, or whatever.
A little note on that is you can change all the skins to pngs (do a global replace on the sript files) and lower the opacity to like 70% or so. suddenly you've got transparenty menus! Looks sweet as all heck.
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That's right, and get this:
The company that primarily exists to support and improve Firebird and which employs many ex-Borland people (including the inventor of Interbase) is called IBPhoenix.
Dave
That's true, it won't be, but who is really treading on whose toes in this whole Phoenix issue? Phoenix make a BIOS, and along comes a browser named Phoenix. Let's face it, there's a better chance of accidentally installing a relational database instead of the intended browser than installing a BIOS instead of the browser.
Now along comes Phoenix, and decide they're going to write a browser, and so get shitty that the name is already used. It was out of their domain, a different domain, and now that they're going into this new domain, they should have to deal with what's already there.
Compare this to the whole Apple music thing that's going on. Isn't this really like Apple (the software company) moving into the music domain and forcing Apple (the music company) to change their name?
Shouldn't customer confusion be assumed?
paintball
Dumb. They will find that firebird.sourceforge.net has been taken already, Firebird is Interbase, the open source version of borland db which is run by real professionals who run a real db consulting business. And the next version is being built. They really don't need a raft of people making mistakes about their name. Pick your own!
I think there's a need for a "naming software projects HOWTO", covering:
What is it with browsers and e-mail clients being named after cars anyway?
;)
Netscape Navigator -> Lincoln Navigator
Internet Explorer -> Ford Explorer
Lynx -> Mercury Lynx
Mozilla Firebird -> Pontiac Firebird
Mozilla Thunderbird -> Ford Thunderbird
Hmmmm...all Ford products with the exception of Firebird. Maybe they should've picked 'Mustang'.
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Does anyone know where this bizarre name-changing ideology comes from?
The first Harry Potter book was the Philosopher's stone everywhere except the US, where it was the Sorcerer's stone. Phoenix, a mythical bird that consumed itself with fire, has been replaced with...firebird. Minotaur, a half man/half bull has been replaced with...thunderbird???
Seems like most of these name changes involve a dumbing down of the name. There are other examples around too. The question then, is WHY???
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Phoenix BIOS has a browser which doesn't require an os. That was the conflict.