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This turned into Mozilla, and Mozilla—based on the Netscape code base—was seen as bloated. So a project from the Mozilla team was launched to create a more lightweight browser. It was named Phoenix while in beta, and the plan was to name it Firebird. This conflicted with some other copyright out there so they named it Firefox. It seemed like an odd choice of name at the time.
And now Firefox is seen as bloated by many. History repeats itself I suppose.
All the junk heaped onto the WWW table has made it bloated, requiring multiprocessing just to run it quickly enough for impatient humans. I still have a version or two of Phoenix (along w. versions of Netscape) on my SPARCstation 20...
Ha Phoenix still running! That's awesome.
The prevailing opinion now seems to be that FF has improved itself and is no longer the hog it was considered. Chrome on the other hand used to be a great lightweight browser and is now gaining the rep FF is shedding