www.mozilla.org seems to say that they are two different things:
Mozilla Firebird 0.7 - Our next generation browser is
                        lightning fast in every way
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 - An email and newsgroup client
                         with powerful, new junk mail controls

John T. Hoffoss wrote:
> You can't find MozillaThunderbird packages anymore because they had to
> rename it to MozillaFirebird.
> 
> Try an emerge -s firebird (or mozilla, I suppose) and you should pick it
> up.
> 
> John
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org 
>>[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Loren 
>>H. Burlingame
>>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:58 AM
>>To: TCLUG Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [TCLUG] I also need distribution input - gentoo anyone?
>>
>>
>>Johnny Fulcrum wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Anyone have anything to say about Gentoo?  I have redhat and am also
>>>looking to switch - I have slack and debian downloaded - 
>>
>>thinking about 
>>
>>>gentoo also but don't know much about it yet...
>>>
>>
>>
>>I moved from Slack to Gentoo a few months ago and I 
>>absolutely am taken 
>>with it.
>>
>>The only problem I have had with is sometimes finding ebuilds for 
>>bleeding edge packages (like Mozilla Thunderbird).
>>
>>whereas the solution on slack was always to just compile from CVS and 
>>not have to worry about a package system to fsck up.
>>
>>LB
>>
>>
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