Firebird dies

Ha, well now that you're panties are in a bunch I'll reveal that it has just changed its name to FireFox because of some stupid copyright or some such. And there is a new version out, 8.0 available at www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Have fun, but the servers are a bit overloaded so good luck downloading.

yeah i think the name was copyright by Pontiac.

They have more than the right to make them change the name.

Firebird conflicted with another Open Source application, not Pontiac. No one would mistake a web browser for a car, but they might mistake two open source applications. But Firefox should be the final name now that they have trademarked it.

New features are a download manager, improved bookmark management, an installer for Windows, and a sexy new skin for the OSX version. (Looks REALLY nice!) But yeah their servers are slammed.

There is a new version of Thunderbird out too. (email application)

Yeah "Firebird" sounded like a really poor choice of a name for a web browser.

Firefox sounds much better.