http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pandaThe Firefox browser is said to have been named after a Chinese name for red panda: 火狐, or "fire fox." However, Mozilla's documents don't mention the red panda among their motivations:
It's similar to Firebird. It's easy to remember. It sounds good. It's unique. We like it. And we weren't able to find any other project or company even remotely similar to a web browser that uses the same name.
—Mozilla.org, Why change the name?[87]
官方从没提过小熊猫的事，说firefox是和firebird相似，firebird因为别的项目用了，所以不想再用，就改成了firefox，应该还是“火 狐狸” 的意思。只是恰好和小熊猫是一个意思了。那尖嘴猴腮的应该就是狐狸。
