Four years ago, the Phoenix name was retired in favor of the even-shorter-lived, Firebird. Thanks to Jason Kersey for coming up with our best and last name, Firefox.
Naming is hard. If you can avoid doing it, I recommend you do.
Posted by: David Tenser | May 17, 2007 12:22 AM
Didn't know that either. That's a nice piece of Mozilla history and I couldn't find it in Mozilla Digital Memory Bank.
Posted by: Percy | May 17, 2007 5:23 AM
Wow. Thanks a lot to Jason!
Posted by: Lim Chee Aun | May 17, 2007 9:04 AM
Kind of makes you wonder why his name was removed form the credits, doesn't it?
Posted by: Bill Gianopoulos | May 17, 2007 3:46 PM
Ben Goodger recounts how the Firefox name was chosen in his interview at the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank. It's in the second and third paragraphs of the answer to "So kind of switching gears here, why do you think Mozilla in particular, Mozilla Firefox has been able to attract such a large number of users?"
Posted by: Alex Bishop | May 20, 2007 4:16 AM
That's something new for me. I recall that there was a 1982 movie called Firefox starring Clint Eastwood.
Posted by: Adam | May 20, 2007 12:27 PM
So it was Jason? I remember the old Phoenix icon, also designed by Jason. Or was it the Firebird icon?