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| ▲ | bobsoap 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| That may be, but mozilla.org isn't exactly a brand like google.com. Most people have never heard of it. If you're trying to get non-technical people to try an underdog browser, simplicity helps. A single, straightforward brand name is better. |
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| ▲ | joshmanders 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Literally everyone I know who isn't technical calls Firefox "mozilla". Including older people. | | |
| ▲ | jacobgkau 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It includes older people because Mozilla had previous work before Firefox, so they heard that name first. I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that, including non-technical people who somehow still have a nostalgic and/or ideological affinity for Firefox. | | |
| ▲ | Timwi 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | When the Mozilla foundation took over the Netscape codebase, it was initially called Mozilla, or Mozilla Browser. There was also a Mozilla email client that came from Netscape Communicator. Then they made a trimmed-down version of the browser with only essential features. That was initially called Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox. They did the same with the email client and called it Thunderbird. These existed alongside Mozilla Browser for a while until it was discontinued. | |
| ▲ | latexr 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that Anecdotally, I’ve heard both people older and younger than you calling it Mozilla. And not tech-illiterate people, either. | | |
| ▲ | jacobgkau 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > And not tech-illiterate people, either. Yeah, again, probably because tech-literate (not tech-illiterate) people are more likely to know the history of the organization beyond when they started using the software. My point was pretty much that the know-nothing user learning about the software today/recently knows it's called Firefox and might never have heard of Mozilla. The branding is clear about Firefox and the Mozilla name is essentially background knowledge. | |
| ▲ | itintheory 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I prefer "Mozzarella Foxfire". |
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| ▲ | hatthew 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | anecdotally, I have never heard anybody call the browser software "mozilla" alone | |
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| ▲ | jraph 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I once heard Mozzarella. Can you imagine the cheesy user-agent strings we'd have? | |
| ▲ | latexr 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | And Acrobat “Adobe”. I wonder if those mistakes are less prevalent in cultures where the family name comes first. | | |
| ▲ | pix128 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Acrobat Reader was called "Adobe Reader" for a good number of years. |
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| ▲ | 1718627440 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's in the window title in desktop shortcuts and gets appended to every tab in the task bar: -- Mozilla Firefox |
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| ▲ | jacobgkau 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Opera had opera.com back when they were an actual browser (they still have it now, too). Vivaldi has vivaldi.com and Brave has brave.com. |
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| ▲ | ImJamal 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Opera, Vivaldi and Brave are the names of the companies that own the browser though? | | |
| ▲ | gertlex 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but not relevant to a post countering > Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name. |
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| ▲ | Medea 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/ No one has to download Edge or Safari. |
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| ▲ | _Algernon_ 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| chrome.com redirects to https://www.google.com/chrome/ for whatever it's worth. |
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| ▲ | katrinarrlyn 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| hahaha, indeed. but i always can't remember mozilla (i don't even know i spelled it right), the other is really to remember, and automatically you know google has a chrome browser, etc. |
