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Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name

Posted by michael on from the been-through-the-desert-on-a-browser-with-no-name dept.

Rovaedne writes "Mozilla Firefox , the web browser formerly known as Firebird, formerly known as Phoenix, has a new extension which allows you to change the name to something palatable. The extension called Firesomething lets users change the name seen in the browser titlebar, Help menu, and About dialog, thus erradicating all traces of "Firefox" in Firefox (currently version 0.8). There is a name change FAQ, but it currently does not mention this extension. This extension should hopefully help curb some of the criticism that Mozilla has received from its most recent choice of name."

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  1. And in other important news... by Punchinello · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    - The Eminem looking kid from the IBM Linux commercials makes bowel movement.

    - Technogeek from Kenosha, Wisconsin hears his grandmother say "red hat" and IMs all his friends to let them know that Linux has finally made the mainstream.

    must be a slow news day.

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  2. Re:finally, a reason to switch from... by phrasebook · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Simplicity. I don't want a billion features, I just want a simple browser.

    There isn't a billion features, and most of 'em aren't even visible unless you go to Preferences. I had to dig through Firebird's documentation and config file a while back just so I could change the damn cache location on disk - real simple that was.

    Firefox seems like a total waste of effort. It doesn't do anything significantly different to Mozilla, is no faster in my experience, renders pages exactly the same, and has a similar non-standard UI and stupid theme capability.

    So why use it over just a minimal Mozilla install? For a dumbed-down Preferences panel? For a re-jigged download 'manager'? For more bugs? For that special beta feeling you only get with 0.X releases? For the joy of using Thunderbird separately, the Most Buggy Mail Client In The History Of The Universe? Why?!

  3. Re:So they've finally caught up... by BigDumbSpaceApe · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    But can you RANDOMIZE your IE titlebar with funny names?!?

    EAT THAT M$ FANBOI!!! MUAHAHAHAHA

    [/sarcam ;)]

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  4. A new name suggestion for Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Instead of "Firefox 0.8", we should call it "From Now On I Promise To Include The Community On These Sorts of Decisions 0.8"

    Just a suggestion.