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What’s in a (browser) name?

Long ago I mentioned how browsers seemed to be named after cars, and if you look at how things have changed, well, they haven’t…

Long ago I mentioned how browsers seemed to be named after cars, and if you look at how things have changed, well, they haven’t…

Let’s see we have:

There’s also Thunderbird, which is actually a mail client that used to be part of a browser suite, so we won’t count that.

This also reveals the real reason why Chimera and Phoenix had to change their names, because even if there are cars with those names, not enough people have heard of them…

(There’s more browser names over at browsers.evolt.org)