Comment by CamouflagedKiwi
16 hours ago
It was originally Minotaur (when the browser was Phoenix), then they were Firebird and Thunderbird, until the browser renamed to avoid a name clash.
16 hours ago
It was originally Minotaur (when the browser was Phoenix), then they were Firebird and Thunderbird, until the browser renamed to avoid a name clash.
I really don't remember (+quick check) Firebird for the email client, do you have source for this?
Predecessor of Firefox was Firebird, and before that it was even called Phoenix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Name_changes
So it wasn't used before Thunderbird, that was the point of OP and myself. We were talking about the email client(!).
And I was an user of firebird, the database.
No, the email client was never called Firebird, that isn't what I was saying.
Browser: Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox Mail client: Minotaur -> Thunderbird
Firebird was the browser's name, after phoenix and before rebranding to firefox.
So it wasn't used before Thunderbird, that was the point of OP and myself. We were talking about the email client(!).
And I was an user of firebird, the database.
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Firebird was actually the database whose name they hijacked when they had access to AOL's legal army.
Also K9Mail is now Thunderbird for Android.
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