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. "