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is this a Biblical name?

is this a Biblical name?

Posted Feb 9, 2004 21:40 UTC (Mon) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
Parent article: Mozilla Firebird becomes Firefox

Is the name a reference to Samson from the book of Judges? He was the fellow who lit a bunch of foxes tails on fire and let them loose in some fields.

The thing is that Samson tied the foxes into pairs so that they would run more randomly and the Firefox logo only shows one fox instead of two. Perhaps somone can correct this detail?


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is this a Biblical name?

Posted Feb 9, 2004 23:39 UTC (Mon) by fLameDogg (guest, #11305) [Link]

...but then people might complain that it should be called "Firefoxen". Or something.

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