All this useless talk about Firebird-SQL being mad and Firebird being a bad name for “Phoenix”…
I have to admit at first I hated it, but now it’s starting to grow on me. It’s also obvious that The Mozilla Developers are sticking to the name and are not going to change it, well great, be quiet Firebird SQL…

I read an Interview with an unknown Mozilla Developer. I quote
“When referring to Thunderbird or Firebird before or during the 1.4 release cycle, make sure to use the project name with Mozilla pre-pended as “Mozilla Thunderbird” or “Mozilla Firebird” instead of Mozilla alone or Firebird/Thunderbird alone.”
Jee, I wonder why. It should be rather obvious that The Developers are trying to make those sick Firebird SQL people happy… Anyway, “Mozilla Firebird” also sounds better than “Firebird” or “Firebird Browser”.

Firebird 0.6 is close to release, the lastest builds are somewhat bug-free, but there are still a number of small bugs – which are just annoying :)

BTW, check out the Reasons for changing to Firebird