168376 - Change all instances of Navigator/Chimera to something else

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Winnie Lam]

Change all instances of Navigator to Chimera, e.g. in splash screen, icon etc.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I hate to say this, but I'm not sure I agree with doing this.

If we take this step, then we're committing ourselves to the name "Chimera" for
the application on disk, and I'm not sure that Chimera is a good name for web
browser. It certainly doesn't imply web browsing to me at all.

We certainly have a marketing problem with 'chimera' being too widely used to
refer to the product, rather than the project. I'd prefer we go the other way
and use "navigator" (or some new name) more in public.

Comment 2

[Peter of the Norse]

Has the author of the other Chimera consented to this?

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** Bug 164377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[kaldari]

Re Comment 1,
The name Navigator will never stick as it is too closely associated with
Netscape Navigator (R.I.P.). If I were to ask any of my homies, for example, if
they use Navigator, they would say "Hell no, that shit is tired. I'm down with
Chimera". Like it or not, every Mac user and their mother refers to the Chimera
Project browser as "Chimera" now. Plus, it fits in much better with the
"Mozilla" and "Phoenix" pedigree. Not to mention the beautiful mental image it
creates of a multiheaded beast ripping the limbs off of Bill Gates :)

fine print: I'm not a marketing executive, so please take my opinion/spam with a
grain of salt.

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

simon is the lone dissenter here, he gets to own it. ;)

Comment 6

[Robert Johnson]

Perhaps not the lone dissenter. 

This is reminiscent of how some people preferred to refer to Netscape Navigator
as "Netscape", even as Netscape released other products. Maybe the fact that the
browser was originally named "Mosaic [Mcom] Netscape" got things rolling in this
direction, or perhaps "Netscape" was always a more fun, and catchier, word to say.

Still, from the first time I launched a Navigator.app binary, I understood
Navigator was the app and Chimera, the project (in lieu of company). The logo,
which I also like, is about navigating, and not about biological anomalies. I
shudder to think what a half-lion, half-goat, half- um snake throbber would do.

Comment 7

[Joost Baaij]

related: bug 154224

Comment 8

[riscky]

Can this bug be cloased? Marked Won't Fix and start a new bug to change
Navigator to what ever the new name of choice will be... which would also
address the Chimera name on all mozilla.org pages.

Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

It has to happen at some point.

Comment 10

[Avi Drissman]

WONTFIX? Camino is here...

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

done