Restored API compatibility for extensions and web applications that did not work in Firefox 1.0.5.Fix to DHTML errors encountered at some web sites.īugs with higher complexity/risk, localization impact, RSS/ Atom feed support, find toolbar, plugin finder. Comprehensive Data Migration from Internet Explorer.The Mozilla community (as opposed to the Foundation) continues to release new versions of the suite, using the product name SeaMonkey to avoid confusion with the original Mozilla Suite. The launch of version 1.0 was accompanied by "a respectable amount of pre-launch fervor" including a fan-organized campaign to run a full-page ad in The New York Times.Īlthough the Mozilla Foundation had intended to make the Mozilla Suite obsolete and replace it with Firefox, the Foundation continued to maintain the suite until Ap because it had many corporate users and was bundled with other software.
The situation was resolved when the foundation was given a license to use Charlton's European trademark.įirefox version 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. 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 UK 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.
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.
Hyatt, Ross, Hewitt and Chanial developed their browser to combat the perceived software bloat of the Mozilla Suite (codenamed, internally referred to, and continued by the community as SeaMonkey), which integrated features such as IRC, mail, news, and WYSIWYG HTML editing into one internet suite.