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    <span class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">For the Aurora builds, we're
      not going to be able to call them "Aurora" because that name will
      clash with the Firefox version. We don't want to use "Thunderbird
      Aurora" because that introduces the official name which starts to
      imply various standards that we don't want to promise to users at
      that stage.</span>
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    <div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1302"><span
        class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">The
        Nightly/Aurora/Beta/Release brandings of Firefox are designed to
        imply emerging features coming through the channels. We'd like
        to keep a sense of that for Thunderbird as well.</span></div>
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    <div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1306"><span
        class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">So we need a new code name.
        Drivers had a chat about this a while ago, and we came up with
        Borealis as a favourite due to its association with Aurora (</span><span
        class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7 url"><a
          href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_%28astronomy%29)</a></span><span
        class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">.</span></div>
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    <div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid1363"><span
        class="author-g-bm244s1hd37926v7">If anyone has any more
        suggestions, please let us know. We'll probably be making the
        final decision on Wednesday as we need to get these builds
        started, and having the code name at the beginning will be much
        easier.<br>
        <br>
        Mark.<br>
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