They've shut down the playground, and the new name is...

RIV@NVX · Post by **RIV@NVX** » March 1st, 2003, 4:29 am

http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1043725251&count=1

fingerprint · Post by **fingerprint** » March 1st, 2003, 5:05 am

Argh, well that blows

Maybe I can just go in and tweak it and rename everywhere it says SurfZilla to something else when it comes out for my own personal browser. That's the cheesiest damn name ever.

RIV@NVX · Post by **RIV@NVX** » March 1st, 2003, 5:13 am

fingerprint wrote:Argh, well that blows Maybe I can just go in and tweak it and rename everywhere it says SurfZilla to something else when it comes out for my own personal browser. That's the cheesiest damn name ever.

Really, I can't believe that name that stupid even exists.
What's the problem with name "Phoenix"?

fingerprint · Post by **fingerprint** » March 1st, 2003, 5:16 am

Phoenix is owned by http://www.phoenix.com They apparently have their own browser out or coming soon so this one has to change it's name as Phoenix Technologies was around first.

RIV@NVX · Post by **RIV@NVX** » March 1st, 2003, 5:21 am

fingerprint wrote:Phoenix is owned by http://www.phoenix.com They apparently have their own browser out or coming soon so this one has to change it's name as Phoenix Technologies was around first.

Ah, OK then.
But there are way better names than SurfZilla.

Micha the not so Old · March 1st, 2003, 5:53 am

As a name Phoenix has the lot, but SurfZilla, that really sux!!
I'd be ashamed to say I used it. I think I'll refer to it as Mozilla's little ..., no I not allowed to say that.

RIV@NVX · Post by **RIV@NVX** » March 1st, 2003, 5:56 am

m1scha_m wrote:As a name Phoenix has the lot, but SurfZilla, that really sux!!
I'd be ashamed to say I used it. I think I'll refer to it as Mozilla's little ..., no I not allowed to say that.

SurfZilla name sucks. There are much better suggestions in the famous "name suggestions" thread.

fingerprint · Post by **fingerprint** » March 1st, 2003, 6:03 am

Might as well call it Internet ExplorZilla if you're gonna call it that, sounds just as bad.

Radiowriter · Post by **Radiowriter** » March 1st, 2003, 6:17 am

SurfZilla?!! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard. Sorry I asked.

RIV@NVX · Post by **RIV@NVX** » March 1st, 2003, 6:43 am

fingerprint wrote:Might as well call it Internet ExplorZilla if you're gonna call it that, sounds just as bad.

Maybe IEZilla so it wouldn't be too long?

Post by **tve** » March 1st, 2003, 7:21 am

it won't be SurfZilla.. dont believe anything as long as its from no reliable source...

Post by **djst** » March 1st, 2003, 7:26 am

RIV@NVX wrote:
fingerprint wrote:Argh, well that blows Maybe I can just go in and tweak it and rename everywhere it says SurfZilla to something else when it comes out for my own personal browser. That's the cheesiest damn name ever.

Really, I can't believe that name that stupid even exists.
What's the problem with name "Phoenix"?

This is getting frustrating. How many times do I have to say<b> that the name has not been chosen</b> and that SurfZilla was nothing but a joke from Blake Ross, the person who explicitly said "no names ending with *Zilla"?

Radiowriter · Post by **Radiowriter** » March 1st, 2003, 9:15 am

djst wrote:...a joke from Blake Ross.

Fool me twice, shame on me. :oops:

ehume · Post by **ehume** » March 1st, 2003, 9:49 am

I agreed with djst before I saw his post. This post from Blake a month ago:

One of the features we'll be adding in Surfzilla 0.6 (the new name for Phoenix) is an option to let the user decide whether or not links should have focus outlines when clicked with the mouse.

is classic Blake Ross humor. We've seen it before. In fact, I think Blake is essentially saying that Surfzilla would, in his opinion, be the worst possible new name for Phoenix.

At this point, I will repeat my plug for Wowser.

But I also like Newt, Skink, Peregrine, Athena, Ion, Tachyon and George (as in "Let George do it").

Mikael · Post by **Mikael** » March 1st, 2003, 10:33 am

SurfZilla? Eh...
We need something special. Better up, something that has with Phoenix to do, like:
1. PYRE (A the end of an epoch, as the Phoenix feels death drawing near, it builds a funeral pyre of sweet spices)

2. BENNU
(pheonix's Egyptian counterpart is the bennu, a heron-like bird that lived on an obelisk in Heliopolis)

Both of these are way cool, short, easily remembered names.