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The announcement of the Mozilla Foundation is that the web browser should always abide Mozilla Firebird name to stay away from confusion with the database software. The effect of pressure from the database server's development community caused another change. So in this journey of changing version, meanwhile there was a version called Phoenix 0.5 & Phoenix0.6.

Phoenix 0.5:There was not much improvisation for the user interface in the Phoenix 0.5 version from the Mozilla organization ,but there was a lot of under-the-hood modification and virus seen in this version.

This version was outfitted with Intellimouse 5-button support that means there is a facility for the net users to use mouse’s back and forward button.

In the earlier version of the Phoenix, when you were going to close Phoenix 0.3 or o.4 it would not retain information its preceding state. But now version like Phoenix 0.5 would now retain information a user’s previous status in which the browser was situated.

Also in this version we can clear size reduction by using less amount of memory usage as we compare it with earlier version of the Phoenix. in this version there is a inclusion of the ability to open history information in tabs. The venerable virus that history speedy hunt was case insightful was also set.

There was a fumigation level for the download manager in this version. A lot of bugs were exterminated together with the bug that caused -1 to be showed as the progress.

so there was a large possibility of repairing of a huge amount of the error & virus in this 0.5 version of the Phoenix. there were some errors which contained the menu bar placing disabled after customizing the toolbar under rigid conditions, successfully interpretation that browser ineffective, also a very old full screen virus that completed the feature a pain to use was patched.

Firebird 0.6: There was a fascination for the all web users of Phoenix, when they saw that there is again launching of a new name for this last version by the Mozilla Firefox corporation team. The reason behind the change in the name was because of the trademark issues.

It is liberated and open source software, and it is certified under three categories like the Mozilla Public License means MPL, General Public License means GPL, and Lesser General Public License means LGPL.The authorization of this three license is essential for anyone to see , change the source code.

The name of the browser had to be altered so as to keep away from trademark issues with a company called Phoenix Technologies, which markets a browser of its possess.

So there was a all made decision for the new name of the browser & that new name was Firebird. But again this new name also gets changed because Firebird was the name of the open-source development project which develops a relational database.

the normal layout of the version did not change much more though there was a new name for the new browser. A fresh default theme was selected for the Firebird 0.6.

In this new version, fresh icons were selected for each & every button on the toolbar. The term like Options was going to be used for Preferences & also there was eye candy nominated for Options.

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