irony

Those of you who remember the early days of Firefox and our, how shall we say, issues around naming, will probably find this amusing.

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I miss the old mozilla/browser FAQ: "Oh no, please don't, whatever will we do without you."

I wonder if they use the Firebird database to store their configuration information, or power the web site!

I don't get it. What's ironic about this?

@Jesse: Probably the fact that Firefox had to give up the "Phoenix" name because of a browser technology being developed by Phoenix...which at this point is just a minimal Linux OS that runs (wait for it) Firefox.

Maybe that doesn't meet the textbook definition of "irony", but it's certainly amusing.

On the plus side, I suspect the name Firefox has actually helped the browser. There are very few other entities using the name, so it's almost as good as being unique, while there are so many references to Phoenix out there. The city in Arizona, this company here, a well-known myth, Order of the Phoenix, etc.

Thanks for explaining, Sandy.

Cool. That's really ironic. That article would be really funny if Firefox hasn't changed names :D

Not sure I understand what's ironic here...

Isn't this the same Phoenix that was knocking around a while back, the one that meant the mozilla browser had to change names to Firebird?

So... now Phoenix have released a new product. I don't get the irony? :-s