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Firefox????Firefox????Posted Feb 9, 2004 17:04 UTC (Mon) by jensend (guest, #1385)Parent article: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox Worst. Project name. Evar.
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Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 17:07 UTC (Mon) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link] I agree on this one... I'm already having nightmares about telling people at work to run Firefox!
Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 17:10 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] You don't have to like the name... just like the software ;-)And you can always stick with plain Mozilla 1.6 (or call it "Seamonkey", like we've been doing for years now). BTW, Firefox is a cute littel animal, also called the Red or Lesser Panda, belonging the the Panda family...
Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 17:28 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] The is no Panda family. Giant panda belongs to the same family as bears, while lesser panda is from the same family as raccoons. More information san be found on the Carnivora page of the Tree of Life.Pictures of lesser panda, courtesy of Google.
Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 17:37 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] Thanks for point that out exactly...I didn't want to use "family" in the exact biological meaning here, but you're right. I should have said "Fire Fox is a relative to the Pandas" or something like that. Anyhow, it's a quite cute animal :)
Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 17:49 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] > BTW, Firefox is a cute littel animal also called the Red or Lesser > Panda, belonging the the Panda family... It is certainly a cute little animal, but it is not clear whether it belongs to the same family as the Giant Panda. See the wikipedia entry which include a nice photograph.
Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 18:10 UTC (Mon) by jensend (guest, #1385) [Link] "Red Panda" would be a better name, as would just about anything else. It looks like USPTO only has one entry for anything named "Red Panda" - a graphics company which I guess went out of business and cancelled its trademark in 2001.
Firefox???? Posted Feb 9, 2004 20:57 UTC (Mon) by jsebrech (guest, #11709) [Link] Hmm, I don't know. For me firefox has connotations of fast and clever. Red panda has connotations of communist and lazy. But then that's just me.
Firefox???? Posted Feb 10, 2004 16:10 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] Red panda has connotations of communist and lazy.(The) Red Panda sounds like a Chinese restaurant to me. ;-)
Worst name... Posted Feb 9, 2004 18:34 UTC (Mon) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link] Worst. Project name. Ever.There must be 10,000 names of lizards-type creatures that would be catchy and amusing, but it seems that someone has decided to put that thought down the memory hole. sPh
Worst name... Posted Feb 9, 2004 18:55 UTC (Mon) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] Read Ben's blog posting to see how they came around to chose that name. It was not out-of-the-blue or anything similar. The project leaders went through a list of over two hundred names that had been proposed, seeing none was either something they liked, or legally OK. Then they started looking through names sttarting with fire- so that they could keep some of their flame imagery they already had from Phoenix and Firebird times.And to quote the Firefox name FAQ: "But I hate the new name. It's stupid. Our editors are trying to figure out whether this is a question. Of course not everyone will like the new name, especially at first. We're confident most people will quickly get used to it. New names have a way of sounding terrible at first. If you're unhappy with the new name, consider trying out the many improvements we've made in the latest release of our browser - we hope that'll make you feel better. After all, what's most important is how the thing works, not what it's called. -- Steve Garrity, Gervase Markham, Ben Goodger, Bart Decrem et al. "
Worst name... Posted Feb 9, 2004 23:37 UTC (Mon) by fLameDogg (guest, #11305) [Link] FWIW, I like the name.
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