Firefox Naming History
The cluster focuses on the historical origins and naming evolution of the Firefox browser, from Netscape to Mozilla Suite, Phoenix, Firebird, and Firefox, including trademark issues and branding distinctions between Mozilla and Firefox.
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Mozilla mandates that you call it anything you like, but not "Firefox"
The author is probably referring to the earlier name Firebird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.htm...). Firefox is still a part of Mozilla project.
Fun fact, Firefox used to be called phoenix. The rename happened over a trademark for another product called phoenix (a database if I recall correctly).
I think you proved his point. ;) He's talking about the Mozilla browser, the precursor to Firefox. (Well actually, Firefox was named Phoenix before it became Firefox.)
Probably because Firefox is a well known brand and Mozilla isn't.
The netscape rewrite became Firefox.
Mozilla is its offspring, isn't it?
Its more of a Firefox devs pretending they did it first.
They're now favoring Firefox branding over Mozilla branding?
Firefox was born from Netscape, so maybe a similar jump is possible!