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Phoenix

• Developer: Mozilla
• Development Status: Renamed to Firefox
• Released: 2002
• Platforms: Windows, Linux
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: Gecko

Overview

Phoenix was the original name of the browser that became Mozilla Firefox.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js detects these Mozilla Firefox products and historical names separately:

Browser	Description
Firefox	Mozilla's main Firefox browser.
Firefox Mobile	Mozilla's Firefox browser for mobile devices.
Firefox Focus	Mozilla's privacy-focused mobile browser.
Klar	The name used for Firefox Focus in German-speaking markets.
Fennec	Mozilla's former mobile browser, followed by Firefox Mobile.
Phoenix	Firefox's original project name.
Firebird	Firefox's name after Phoenix and before Firefox.

History

Mozilla first released this browser as Phoenix in 2002. It was later called Mozilla Firebird, then became Firefox with version 0.8 in February 2004.

User-Agent Examples

Linux

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Phoenix", version: "0.4", major: "0"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.PHOENIX));
// true