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Newer page:	version 5	Last edited on Monday, September 6, 2004 4:08:53 pm	by CraigBox	Revert
Older page:	version 1	Last edited on Friday, February 13, 2004 10:07:39 am	by CraigBox	Revert

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-!~~!! The MozillaFirefox Project~~

+Firefox is a [Free], OpenSource WebBrowser for [Windows], [Linux] and [MacOSX] that uses the Gecko rendering engine and the XUL ToolKit, as written by the [Mozilla] project. MozillaFirefox is becoming increasingly popular and is meant to replace the [Mozilla] Browser component of !SeaMonkey, the Mozilla application suite.

-~~;: MozillaFirefox(tm)~~ is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, [Linux] and [MacOSX] and is based on the [Mozilla] codebase. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over InternetExplorer, such as the ability to block pop-up windows. Read more about the browser at the [Mozilla Firefox Project Page|http://texturizer .~~net/firefox/]~~ .

+The latest release is .9 .

-It's mostly written by Ben Goodger, a New Zealander now living in America.

+It's mostly written by [ Ben Goodger|http://www.bengoodger.com/] , a New Zealander now living in America.

-~~This is~~ the new name ~~for~~ Firebird~~, which~~ was the new name ~~for~~ Phoenix. Phoenix got renamed after the BIOS manufacturers complained. ~~They~~ then did "months of trademark research" to come up with Firebird, which ~~exists in the OSS world~~ already ~~as a~~ database ~~product~~ ! Firefox ~~is being~~ registered as a trademark worldwide, although it's also the name of a Clint Eastwood sci-fi movie from the early 1980s.

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-Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine and the XUL toolkit, as used by Mozilla. MozillaFirefox has recently become pretty popular and is currently slowly becoming the replacement for the [Mozilla] Browser component of !SeaMonkey, the Mozilla application suite.

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-~~The latest release is .8, the first with the Firefox name~~ .

+"Firefox" was the new name used in the .8 release of the WebBrowser previously known as " Firebird". "Firebird" was the new name used in the .6 release of the WebBrowser previously known as " Phoenix" . Phoenix got renamed after the [ BIOS] manufacturers of the same name complained. The Phoenix team then did "months of trademark research" to come up with Firebird, which is already the name of an OpenSource database! Strangely enough, that same database was also once called Phoenix and later changed their name to Firebird. The new name Firefox was registered as a trademark worldwide, although it's also the name of a Clint Eastwood sci-fi movie from the early 1980s.