[steve86]

I run Phoenix nightly builds as well as Opera on Linux but have been confused about the name "Firebird" which has been popping up. I guess this message on the Firebird site clarifies it...

New Name: Firebird

After months of discussion and further months of legal investigation, we're finally comfortable moving forward with new names. The new name for the Phoenix browser is "Firebird". The documentation and product strings will be updated soon. In addition to securing Firebird, we've also got the OK from those contributing legal resources to use the name "Thunderbird" for a mail client. Hopefully this will be the end of naming legal issues for a while.

Phoenix News Posted by Asa Dotzler | 2003-04-15

[NativeNewYorker]

Yeah. There were copyright issues with the old name, so they re-branded the browser/mail client.

[jokar]

BTTT