Phoenix needs a new name

[Sipaq]

How about

Iguana (already mentioned)
Griffin
Antenna

[bob.sherunkel]

How about, "Raptor".

I like that. I bet it's copyrighted somewhere though. If not, that is a very good name suggestion. Based on the Mozilla lizard/gecko engine, fast and small. That's what a raptor was (well not based on the gecko engine, but fast and relatively small).

Of course Symantec owns Raptor firewall ...

Bob. (From Toronto - Home of he Raptors ...)

[michal017]

why all the mythology?

why not ?

mind you Thunderbird (when/if it turns up) isn't exactly mythological (?)

because you could miss some other great names..

[jayeshsh]

Hello,

My suggestion is <b>Autark</b> - a derivative of the word autarkic or autarchic.

Autarkic means self ruling, independent, free. I think all of these correspond to the qualities of Mozilla based projects.

Autarkic comes from Autarky; more info on Autarky at Merriam Webster:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?b ... va=autarky

I checked the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, and there is no trademark for this name ( Autark ) , probably since it is a derivative of an existing, unusual word.

http://www.uspto.gov

I feel the name evokes a spare, simple, sovereign, yet stark being - an independent, free, unconstrained yet unvarnished existence.

Tell me what you think.

Regards,

- Jay

[djst]

My suggestion is <b>Autark</b> - a derivative of the word autarkic or autarchic.

I don't like it. The name doesn't sound cool at all, regardless of what it actually means.

[Franck]

Mozurl

Lizard

Karanji

Raja

Mynav

[tve]

Guerilla

"a member of an irregular armed force (moz) that fights a stronger force (MS) by sabotage and harassment"

[spark]

hmm...

http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
http://www.phnxsoft.com/phnx1024/index.htm
http://www.phoenix-simulation.co.uk/
....

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/trademark.html

[IoN_PuLse]

LOL I like that one (Guerilla)

[lar3ry]

How about "feenix?"

[Abiku]

I'm tired, so this is all I could remember (and then pulled out of a book I have):

Pyrallis, Pyragones, or Pyrausta --they're all the same (and they start with P! Heh...)

"This remarkable animal, no bigger than a large fly, resembled a four-legged insect, with a burnished bronze body and golden filigree wings--but its head was that of a dragon."

"It was associated exclusively with the copper smelting forges and roundries of Cyrpus, in which swarms of the creatures were reported to dance and cavort like incandescent will-o'-the-wisps. Yet if one of these animate sparks should fly out of the flames, even for the briefest of instants, it would die at once--because the pyrallis drew not merely its sustanence, but also its very life force from the furnace's curning heat and raging vitality. Truly a beast of the fire and the flame!"

Not all that profound, but it does <I>sort of</I> keep with the Phoenix theme...

[Stefan]

I checked the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, and there is no trademark for this name ( Autark ) , probably since it is a derivative of an existing, unusual word.

Well, one of the forum posters own this company with just that name
http://www.autark.se/

The world does not consist of US alone.

[pearl051]

I think the name Phoenix suites the project and the browser. So, there isn't really a need to change it to some 12 legged creature name or whatever To avoid copyright if thats really a problem we can modify it a little to something such as :

Phoenix I
Phoenix II
XPhoenix
MozPhoenix

and so on.. any suggestions ?
Cheerio,
GB.

[lar3ry]

MozPhoenix

"But it's pronounced "FEE-nicks."

[verloren]

Well, we could follow the OS X scheme and call it:
iBrowse

but looking through some lizard names the following stand out:

From English names:
Skink (small, but sounds kinda slimey)
Nobbi (funny!)
Goanna (Sounds cool, but might be difficult to pronounce)

From the latin section:
Carlia (abstract, and sounds nice)
Delma (describes legless lizards, which leads to drunk jokes!)
Menetia (just sounds cool)

My vote would be for Carlia - cool, friendly, and .org and .net are available.