Okay, it’s been a couple of days now and I’m just starting to get used to the new name of the Mozilla Foundation’s flagship stand-alone browser.

I’ve always used the Mozilla suite, even despite the fact that I only install the browser component. Originally it was Phoenix, then it was renamed to Firebird. Just a couple of days ago, they’ve renamed it again to Firefox. I’m just not that keen on its UI – it looks far too much like an IE clone to me. Plus I miss some of the preferences that are exposed in the Mozilla UI – even though I do know how to set them manually in … Firefox.

Back to the name. It didn’t sound right to me at first. Now, I no longer have to correct myself as often when I think about it. Still, however, I’m constantly reminded of both the Clint Eastwood movie and a certain reference to a female vigilante squad from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. When version 5.0 of Firefox comes out it will be even more reminiscent.

Hopefully they won’t run into even more political / legal problems with their product name. It would be a shame if they had to change it yet again.