Re:Evolving the Firefox Brand
by mongol on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:17AM
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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.
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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...
Phoenix used a mozilly icon [1] for the file image and a Phoenix [2] for the about image.