San Francisco, 25th January 2004 - The Mozilla Foundation (NASDAQ: MOZ) announced today that its ground-breaking Firefox browser would be renamed "FoxGoo" with immediate effect.
"With lead developer Ben Goodger now being paid by Google, it seemed an ideal time to rebrand. Again." commented Mitchell Baker, the project's Chief Name Changer. "We feel that the name 'FoxGoo' more clearly represents our commitment to standards, innovation and choice of integrated search on the Internet. Well, maybe not the 'choice' part."
"Google have decided that it would be much easier to get some mindshare from Firefox's, I mean FoxGoo's success than develop their own browser. I, for one, welcome our new non-evil search overlords", said Asa Dotzler, the Foundation's head of QA, Community Relations and Beard Studies.
Godzilla could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Posted by gerv at January 25, 2005 9:32 AMI have very few rejections against Thunderbird --> Birdle.
Posted by: Bram! at January 25, 2005 9:48 AMSurely GooFox would have been better!
Posted by: Darren Winsper at January 25, 2005 10:47 AMcaaaaareful!
when such important news are published in such a casual bloggy-thing, some people might misunderstand it as ironic. the concept of "irony" turns something into the contrary, which you surely do not intend!
Posted by: Mark at January 25, 2005 10:48 AMBecause Firegle was a bad name ?-)
Posted by: Daniel Glazman at January 25, 2005 11:44 AMSomeone on ./ suggested "FireGoo". Feel free to invent your own lame joke to go with that...
Posted by: michaell at January 25, 2005 12:23 PMHmm,
Google
Goodger
GooFox
Can anyone spot a pattern emerging? Think I might just have to register the goofox domain before someone else does!!
Posted by: Dave at January 25, 2005 1:41 PMAre ... you .... serious .....?!
Posted by: jayfromtaiwan at January 25, 2005 1:49 PMNo.
Posted by: Foxtrot at January 25, 2005 3:12 PMit's awful!
sounds "goofy"
horrendous!!
Please change the name again!
Fuckgle
Posted by: ashash at January 25, 2005 6:54 PMAs Nelson(Bart's bully) would have remarked:
HAAAAA Haaa
What about Goozilla?
Posted by: Neil T. at January 25, 2005 8:22 PMIn the spirit of the open source, maybe getting some input for the vast source of users might be in order. The transition from Firebird to Firefox seemed logical. Firegoo just leaves me cold. Bet there are some very creative type that could come up with a blend of central ideas in the words "Fire" and "Google", hopefully something more appealing than Firegoo.
Posted by: Bob T at January 25, 2005 8:28 PMBob, I think it was a sarcastic jab at the dozen times Firefox has already changed it's name. :)
Posted by: Alan Trick at January 25, 2005 9:14 PM> GooFox
Make that "Goofy"
> sounds "goofy"
Right. Goofy is it!
Posted by: Ben Bucksch at January 26, 2005 1:16 AMFireGoo == Napalm.
Set the web on fire
Hey ! You have firesomething to make and test these names :) !
Posted by: Milouse at January 26, 2005 9:41 AMCan I kill you now for using that old, dead and God forsaken joke about "welcoming our new overlords"?
Seriously, it was kinda funny in a "making fun of the typical slashdot post" kinda way. :-D
Posted by: Mike Fedyk at January 26, 2005 10:24 PMHow about Fargle?
Well, maybe there'll be an extension to change it back. Like Firesomething, but with the one name. Because that sounds like something you buy from Spencer's.
Posted by: Frost at January 29, 2005 5:57 PMI didn't really take this announcement seriously either but the bible getting it's way in Gecko browsers didn't yield a casual feeling to this blog.
Also I was unaware that this blog does not publically post email addys (my props on that specifically). Now I won't post bs addys here. :-)
Posted by: John Bilicki III at January 30, 2005 2:51 AMWoseo - http://woseo.esmartdesign.com
Posted by: Woseo at February 2, 2005 4:28 PM