{"id":72,"date":"2004-02-09T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T19:16:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-09T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T19:16:37","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Firebird becomes Firefox?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s been waiting for the new release of Mozilla Firebird, version 0.8.  But, when it finally arrives, it turns out that it has been renamed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/press\/mozilla-2004-02-09.html\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eh?  Wazzatallaboutthen?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s clearly enough confusion to warrant a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/firefox\/firefox-name-faq.html\">Renaming FAQ<\/a>.  Seems like the short version of the story is that there were complaints from the <a href=\"http:\/\/firebird.sourceforge.net\/\">Firebird relational database<\/a> people, which is perhaps fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>This is of course the <i>second time<\/i> that this browser project has changed its name &#8211; it used to be called Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s annoying to have to change the name used in one&#8217;s advocacy for the project, so I think I&#8217;ll be referring to &#8220;the Mozilla browser&#8221; or something like that, just in case it changes again.<\/p>\n<p>Although I must admit that &#8220;the browser formerly known as Firebird formerly known as Phoenix&#8221; has a certain satirical appeal &#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s been waiting for the new release of Mozilla Firebird, version 0.8. But, when it finally arrives, it turns out that it has been renamed Mozilla Firefox. Eh? Wazzatallaboutthen? There&#8217;s clearly enough confusion to warrant a Renaming FAQ. Seems like the short version of the story is that there were complaints from the Firebird relational&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=72\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}