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My picks

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the only two I like are

SPHINX
FIREBIRD
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Xulu's growing on me...

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thumperward wrote:Xulu's growing on me...

You might want to have that checked! :wink: Actually, Xulu is an awesome suggestion. Kudos again to fittysix for a nice choice.
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Post by Apollo »

Yeah Xulu is a great suggestion.
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Post by priior »

i think i will rename phoenix.exe to xulu.exe right now :)
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Post by redmyrlin »

Apollo wrote:Yeah Xulu is a great suggestion.
I have to agree, Xulu is a great name.

As phoeni<b>X</b> ends, so <b>X</b>ulu begins!
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And if the name did become Xulu, the email client could be named <b>Xen</b> for <b>X</b>ul <b>E</b>mail and <b>N</b>ews! :)
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Post by Teluial »

[quote="redmyrlin"]And if the name did become Xulu, the email client could be named <b>Xen</b> for <b>X</b>ul <b>E</b>mail and <b>N</b>ews! :)[/quote]

Oh, that's just what we need. Xulu and Xen, to be confused with Xenu, and then it'll be thought of as the Scientology Browser,.
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Re: my top 5 even if I will be glad with Their choice

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JenHi wrote:Zu
Swan
Cobra
BOB (Best Of Browsers)
Basilisk


The future former Phoenix may indeed be the "best of browsers", but unfortunately the name "Bob" has already been used for an absolutely awful Microsoft program a few years ago. It was a suite of integrated apps (not unlike Works) with a thoroughly hideous, dumbed-down interface. It was the Edsel of computer software.
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Post by fruitcake »

Firebird reminds me of a car-model that Bill Gates might have dreamt of in his teens, in all honesty I didn't even know it was an "existing" bird....and I'm afraid that this also counts for many other non-native-English speakers/browser-users.
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Post by chrookee »

I did a search in google on the top five names that I had counted earlier ... here are some stats


Sphinx http://www.sphinxsoftware.com/
Firebird http://www.firebird.net/
Fox http://www.fox.ro/
Phox
Discovery http://www.discoverysoft.com/
Ion http://www.ionsoftware.co.uk/
Athena http://www.athenavisual.com/default.htm
Px http://www.pxsoftware.com/
Dragonfly http://www.dfly.com/

Xulu http://www.xulusoft.com/content.cfm?cont_uid=3

Almost all the names in the top list are existing names of different types of software...

I guess we will need a name like they name some of the celestial bodies :) ....
Browser No. 4MG.128 which would stand for 4th browser from the Mozilla Gecko 128 bit engine...
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Post by willll »

chrookee wrote:I guess we will need a name like they name some of the celestial bodies :) ....
Browser No. 4MG.128 which would stand for 4th browser from the Mozilla Gecko 128 bit engine...

4th?? where did u learn math?
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Post by flii »

no we don't. here's an example why:

asa wrote:
Ted Mielczarek wrote:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

Is that convincing enough? It's a shame, I would have liked it.

What does a relational database have to do with a web browser. Trademark law says that there has to be customer confusion before you have a problem. The chances of someone confusing a web browser and a relational database are about as slim as someone confusing a loaf of bread and a bananna.

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the only reason we can't use names is if they are trademarked for a BROWSER sort of software.
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Post by redmyrlin »

I notice my personal favourite <b>Dragonfly</b> is part of the name of the company, not the application. There should be no legal point of contention between <b>Dragonfly Software</b> and <b>Dragonfly Internet Browser</b> :)
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Post by Radiowriter »

Wow! Wanna see something <b>really</b> freaky?

http://www.xulu.com/
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