Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name

Yage writes "Firebird, the lightweight version of Mozilla gets release 0.8 and changes its name again (remember Phoenix?) to avoid confusion with another OSS project. The new name is Firefox. There's a press release out about the name change and new version. And, as usual, download it from mozilla.org." Worth noting that ThunderBird .5 has been released as well. Update: 02/09 14:55 GMT by H : Thanks to Steve Garrity for pointing out the name change FAQ.

Comments

With the way these guys get into name disputes...

[Jerk City Troll]

...it's surprising they didn't name it "Starfox".

(Apologies to Eli. :)

Movie with Clint Eastwood

[dpilot]

Does this mean that Firefox will have thought-controlled anti-spam and popup suppression?

Re:Movie with Clint Eastwood

[Chris Mattern]

Yes, but you have to think at it in Russian.

Chris Mattern

Re:Totally brutal...

[sweeney37]

let's just hope this stays permanent. it's hard now to have a conversation with someone about the browser and/or the email client.

Person 1: "Hey I just started using Mozilla!"
Person 2: "Oh yeah? 1.5?"
Person 1: "No, .8"
Person 2: "Oh you mean Firebird."
Person 1: "No, I think it's Firefox."
Person 3: "I loved that show on Fox, it's a shame they canceled it."
Person 2: "You're thinking of Firefly."
Person 1: "Wait, was that the one with the marionettes?"
Person 3: "No, I think that's an email client."

Mike

slashdotted

[Lost Dragon]

Firefox 0.8 Our next generation browser is lightning fast in every way. Unless you're trying to download it right now.

Names

[CGP314]

Worth noting that ThunderBird .5 has been released as well.

Don't you mean ThunderFox?

-Colin

Re:Names

[glassesmonkey]

No, to match FireFox, they are planning to keep with the "Fire" theme and will rename ThunderBird to FireBird

FireChick

[Phoinix]

I do not like the new name. May I suggest the name "FireChick" in reference to a "smaller" bird?

Would make a good movie

[RDW]

I can see it now - Mitchell Gates (Clint Eastwood), elite Microsoft coder and flashback-impaired veteran of the Browser Wars, is sent behind enemy lines to steal the only production prototype of the Firefox, with its revolutionary thought-controlled toolbar technology ("but remember, Mr Gates, you have to _think in XML_!"). The film ends rather abruptly when someone tells him he can download it for free.

Re:Its too bad the names are all unrelated

[krumms]

MozBird, MozFox MozCam sound good too me.

Thank you, because of your horrible suggestions I now feel less irksome about the name "Firefox" ;)

Re:Totally brutal...

[Anonymous Coward]

I predict in 18 months time, after another 2 name changes, the developers get sick of all the crap related to name changes and we have two very good, quality products from the mozilla team.

Browser 1.0
and
Mail 1.0

And all will be done, and there shall be no confusion, and they then proceed to take over the world like Word, Excel and Office did.

Re:marketing school

[ozbird]

Is Mozilla Lite just too obvious for them?!

Apparently. Rumour has it the next release will be called "iMozilla-NG Xtreme" - something for everyone, I guess.

Re:marketing school

[GWTPict]

AAAAGHHH. It's spelt light, lite is the creation of some semi literate PR bunny and we hates it, we hates it. Don't we Precious?

Why bother with the numbers...

[ZipR]

when they change the name with every release?