kartooner

The devel­op­ment team at Mozilla.org have offi­cially released the next incar­na­tion of what was orig­i­nally named the Fire­bird browser. The soft­ware has been updated to ver­sion 0.8 and in the process has been renamed Mozilla Fire­fox.

The logo on the other hand was report­edly inspired by the Fire­fox, or “another name for the Red Panda, also known as the lesser panda or the cat bear. The name, fire­fox, is trans­lated from the Chi­nese name for the Red Panda, ‘hon ho’ which means ‘fire-fox’.” (ref)

An expla­na­tion on the process of brand­ing Fire­fox can be found at hicks­de­sign.

If you haven’t jumped on the Fire­fox band­wagon, now is the time. The browser includes a slew of new fea­tures with the 0.8 build but most impor­tantly tabbed brows­ing, auto-block popup man­ager, improved CSS ren­der­ing (much improved over Inter­net Explorer) and much more. I use the browser in addi­tion to Net­cap­tor, which uses the IE engine, and can hon­estly say that Fire­fox is an excel­lent browser.

So much in fact, I write most of my arti­cles within the Fire­fox browser. It’s leaner, meaner and cleaner.