How Firefox Got Its Name

"It was a joke for a while that Firefox would change its name every three months. It turns out to be an incredibly difficult task to find a name that isn't trademarked by somebody. We spent about a month just sitting there. A good friend of mine was going through the dictionary, being facetious. He said firecatch, firefox. I said, 'Wait, that sounds good.' He said, 'I was just kidding.'"

-- Ben Goodger, formerly lead engineer for the open-source search engine Firefox, now a software engineer at Google, interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2007.