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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Firebird becomes Firefox

"The Mozilla Foundation released a new version of its open source Web browser this week, with improvements to its download manager, extension, and bookmark handling, along with a new name aimed at skirting trademark complaints from another open source project," reports IDG News

"The browser has lost its previous Firebird moniker and become the new Firefox 0.8 software, a preview of the group's upcoming 1.0 release. The group dropped the Firebird name to avoid a scuffle with the Firebird relational database development project."

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