SeaMonkey:Name And Version
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What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
The official project name is "SeaMonkey".
Announcement of project name: SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite
SeaMonkey will start as version 1.0, after alpha and beta releases.
Origin of the name "SeaMonkey"
"SeaMonkey" has been the codename for the Mozilla suite for some time, though it originally was invited by Netscape management as a codename for the release later called "Netscape 6" - they simply needed a "politically correct" version of the codename "ButtMonkey" their developers had actually voted for (and apparently "jenga" was the run-in in this voting)... (Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org IRC logs for helping us finding out about that)
BTW, the German translation of the name, "Seeaffe", was/is an alias for the Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon) which is an extinct species (hunted for its highly-valued fur, extinct around 1890) of the Mustelidae or weasel family. A close, still living, relative to that animal can be viewed in that picture. Interestingly, weasels might look similar to small Foxes and the codename for unoffical, changed builds of Firefox is "Iceweasel". ;-) BTW, while the chinese word for "Firefox" can refer to both the red fox and the red panda, the latter is a closer relative to the Sea Mink that the further...
