In the Danish newspaper Dato from the 26th of October 2006 (page 13) there's an article with the header: "Surf på nettet uden Internet Explorer" — Danish for "Surf the web without Internet Explorer".

Although it's nice to see the Danish mainstream media writing about Firefox, they almost everytime, this time is no exception, forgets to underline the fact that Firefox is an open source browser and what that means.

And the journalist tried to vary his language use by referring to Firefox as "ildræv" ("ild" is Danish for "fire", and "ræv" is Danish for "fox") but that's not what Firefox means — although there is a fox with a fire-like tail in the logo.

According to Mozilla who's behind Firefox, the meaning is something else:

What's a Firefox?

A "Firefox" is another name for the red panda.

Just to set that one straight…

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Tags: Firefox, Media, Mozilla, Open source

Media, Open source Comments 1 Nov 20th, 2006

One Response to “Firefox has nothing to do with fire…or fox”

1. ffextensionguru Says:
   December 28th, 2006 at 22:16

   Wanna see a "Fire-Like-Tail"? Check out Mozilla Japan's New Mascot

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