Why the name Firefox?

United States
August 5, 2011 1:55am CST
Why did the makers of firefox make the name what it is. Why a fox? Why on fire? Have anything to do with firewalls? It is very popular, it also very curious.
6 responses
• Egypt
15 Oct 11
i think its a good name and also the logo because all of us knows that the fox is a fast runner and fire makes it super runner ,super browser,that since it begun i didnt change it
• India
27 Dec 11
Hello zooz711 , the logo itself reveals the name. That is brilliant, having such a name , the logo should be clear, that is what they did. Anyway I liked it very much .
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• India
10 Jan 12
Hahah...you should ask the reason of the owner of browser. I dont know why the name is firefox.
• Philippines
5 Aug 11
for that you should refer to this: www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/firefox-name-faq.html or I could just type it here instead Why Firefox? It's similar to Firebird. It's easy to remember. It sounds good. It's unique. We like it. And we weren't able to find any project or company even remotely similar to a web browser that uses the same name. Also as an additional info www.hotmail.com was named after that, aside from the words hot mail which means that its something important or something interesting the name has the letter H, T, M, and L or HTML which is used to construct webpages
• Israel
23 Aug 11
I think that the name be named because of the speed of the fire fox fox like fire
• India
21 Aug 11
The name firefox looks very interesting to me. It is very unique name provides a different position then other browsers like explorer and opera. I think it is fox because it is very sneaky, can sneak every page with cookie like a real fox sneak to its food. Fire stands for its blazing speed. So fire fox name looks appropriate to me.
• India
27 Dec 11
Hello Chicky86 , I think the icon of the firefox itself suggests the name, means, a fox having fire. Fire means somewhat rocking. That's it, na ? As far as I concern firefox is the leading web browsers. I think it can rock again. Have a nice day..