This trademark process led to a delay of several months in the release of Firefox 0.8 when the foundation discovered that Firefox had already been registered as a trademark in the United Kingdom for Charlton Company software. To ensure that no further name changes would be necessary, the Mozilla Foundation began the process of registering Firefox as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in December 2003. The name "Firefox" (a reference to the red panda) was chosen for its similarity to "Firebird", and its uniqueness in the computing industry. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software.ĭue to continuing pressure from the Firebird community, on Februthe project was renamed again to Mozilla Firefox. The new name, Firebird, met with mixed reactions, particularly as the Firebird database server already carried the name. The name Phoenix remained until April 14, 2003, when it was changed because of a trademark dispute with the BIOS manufacturer Phoenix Technologies (which produces a BIOS-based browser called Phoenix FirstWare Connect). The name Mozilla was revived as the 1998 open sourcing spinoff organization from Netscape. The name for this would-be "Mosaic killer" was meant to evoke the building-crushing Godzilla. The name Mozilla began as the internal codename for the original 1994 Netscape Navigator browser aiming to displace NCSA Mosaic as the world's most popular web browser.
This name carried the implication of the mythical firebird that rose triumphantly from the ashes of its dead predecessor, in this case Netscape Navigator which lost the "First browser war" to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. After it was sufficiently developed, binaries for public testing appeared in September 2002 under the name Phoenix. The project that became Firefox began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla Suite called m/b (or mozilla/browser).
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