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Re:Evolving the Firefox Brand by mongol on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:17AM (#17651439)
Originally it was a bird; Firebird. But as there already existed a software product with that name, after some time it was changed. Probably fox was the next best animal to go with fire.
Re:Evolving the Firefox Brand by Fnoord on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:36AM (#17651761)
Before it was called Firebird, it was called Phoenix (I don't remember the related icons though) [1]. The name's also referenced in about:mozilla

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Firefox#Phoenix_0.1...

Re:Evolving the Firefox Brand by ChoGGi on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:45AM (#17652035)
Phoenix used a mozilly icon [1] for the file image and a Phoenix [2] for the about image.

[1] https://imgur.com/223ev57

[2] https://imgur.com/OiAwuvB