![]() The complaint came from the company that still held a trademark on some database software, if I recall… and so Firebird became Firefox.įor years, the spirit of what Firefox was created to be was evident in the product. Apparently, they thought that a car and a browser would probably not be confused for one another. It wasn’t Pontiac that complained about Firebird. Combined with the email client Thunderbird and the Mac Cocoa native Camino, Mozilla’s new offerings it looked like it could double as a used car lot. While the suite had extensions too, one thing it could not credibly do was light and small by the standards of the day, it was a heavyweight.Įventually, Phoenix BIOS complained about the name, so it became Firebird (because a phoenix is, quite literally, a fire bird). As such, Phoenix could be as light and small or heavy and feature-rich as you wanted… whatever you wanted a browser to be, Phoenix could do it. The core of Phoenix was to be a light, nimble core of mainstream features nearly everyone wanted, with the more esoteric stuff being pushed out into addons. Phoenix started as the browser of the suite with “bloat” being hacked off in large chunks. I thought its direct parent, Moz Suite, was quite good, so I was a little puzzled by the name at first, but it referred to the phoenix rising from the ashes of Netscape, which was still around at the time, but only a sad shadow of its former self (a division of AOL whose only purpose later turned out to be a means to leverage Microsoft into royalty-free licensing of IE to be used as part of their AOL software). I remember when I was using Mozilla Suite (now Seamonkey) and the devs announced an experimental product called Phoenix. While I had been having horrendous instability since ~FF51, it was the recognition of Mozilla’s commitment to what seems like a suicidal path that finally did it. When FF 64 finally arrived for Windows, I kept using it… until about a week ago. It was an early beta that was far, far better than any release Firefox (x86) I’d used for years. I also tried Cyberfox, which has a claim to fame of having been compiled with settings specifically for Intel or AMD CPUs, but FF beta was better… rock solid, fast, everything working. I used that until the official FF 64-bit builds for Windows finally hit the beta channel (they’d been in alpha for years), and they performed even better than Waterfox. ![]() WF was great… it worked, it was quick, it didn’t crash all the time like x86 FF (neither did PM, btw), and it worked with my addons. I used it for a while, but when PM decided to start identifying using a different UUID than Firefox for addons, it broke a few of my addons that I was not about to give up so easily, so I tried WF. Back when there was no official Windows Firefox x86/64, I tried Pale Moon 64-bit first. I am myself migrating to Pale Moon (again). libiomp5md.Aside from yet another trip down memory lane, there is actually some stuff in here that matters, like why you may not wish to turn off FF telemetry… but I can’t for the life of me write a short post, so here goes.svml_dispmd.dll (Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler by Intel(R) Software Products).mozsqlite3.dll (SQLite Database Library by Comodo Security Solutions).smime3.dll (Network Security Services by Comodo Security Solutions).nss3.dll (Network Security Services by Comodo Security Solutions).nssutil3.dll (Network Security Services by Comodo Security Solutions).plds4.dll (Netscape Portable Runtime by Comodo Security Solutions).plc4.dll (Netscape Portable Runtime by Comodo Security Solutions).mozjs.dll (by Comodo Security Solutions).nspr4.dll (Netscape Portable Runtime by Comodo Security Solutions).ssl3.dll (Network Security Services by Pando Networks).libmmd.dll (Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler by Intel Corporation).gkmedias.dll (Waterfox by Mozilla Foundation).xul.dll (Waterfox by Mozilla Foundation).mozalloc.dll (Waterfox by Mozilla Foundation).mozglue.dll (Waterfox by Mozilla Foundation).mpoav.dll (IOfficeAntiVirus Module by Microsoft Corporation).These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
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