September 22, 2011 By Chad Vander Veen
Answer:
Firefox Web Browser. The name was changed to Firebird in 2003 following a trademark dispute with Phoenix Technologies. The name was changed again to Firefox in 2004 due to an open source database management system also called Firebird.
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