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Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#31

Post by mtgx »

calcifer wrote: post #4
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

Such a terrible idea... this will generate endless confusion for no gain at all.

How will it create confusion? Nobody types moz:// in regular usage, so this only effects you if you are specifically looking for an easter egg or something.

You don't think at the very least older people will see Moz://a and try to type that into the browser's address bar?

Also, Moz.com should expect a huge increase in its revenues soon. I imagine they already have the celebration party planned for the weekend.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#32

Post by pmontra »

INTPenis wrote: post #10

2nd google result for moz://a is that bug report. At least in "my google". ;)

Ironically googling for moz://a from the address bar doesn't work in Firefox Android. It's interpreting it as a protocol and doesn't send it to Google. It displays a blank page.

Moz://a from google returns moz.com as first result. Ironically again, it's a SEO company. Maybe Mozilla needs their services.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#33

Post by dkresge »

calcifer wrote: post #4
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

Such a terrible idea... this will generate endless confusion for no gain at all.

How will it create confusion? Nobody types moz:// in regular usage, so this only effects you if you are specifically looking for an easter egg or something.

It does tend to bork the unified search bar.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#34

Post by dkresge »

ishaanbahal wrote: post #13
hkjgkjy wrote: post #5

It's a cool concept - but surely there are a lot of regexps our there that will now trigger in vain. Also search engines will index "moz://a" as a different thing than "mozilla". Likely, the first will be indexed as ["moz", ":", "/", "/", "a"] and the punctuation likely be thrown out, resulting in matches for "moz" and "a".

Why would a search engine index something that is just a local easter egg in the client software? It's not a real protocol, it will definitely redirect to an http website.

It is, however, a valid observation for the use of the string within text. It likely means every search engine needs to now add another exception to their parser to treat moz://a as a word entity.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#36

Post by Normal_gaussian »

jo909 wrote: post #25

I think the bikeshed should be painted orange!

It is well understood by those of us who are more literate in these things that a bikeshed should have a combination of transparent windshield walls and solid green roof. I therefore propose we tear down the existing, functional, bikeshed as its blue walls (which would not look good in orange) are constructed of a material which is not transparent.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#37

Post by karrotwaltz »

pmontra wrote: post #32
INTPenis wrote: post #10

2nd google result for moz://a is that bug report. At least in "my google". ;)

Ironically googling for moz://a from the address bar doesn't work in Firefox Android. It's interpreting it as a protocol and doesn't send it to Google. It displays a blank page. Moz://a from google returns moz.com as first result. Ironically again, it's a SEO company. Maybe Mozilla needs their services.

Searching "moz://a", neither Google nor DuckDuck shows Mozilla's website on the first page of results... and the SEO company is first in both indeed.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#38

Post by toxican »

mtgx wrote: post #31
calcifer wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will it create confusion? Nobody types moz:// in regular usage, so this only effects you if you are specifically looking for an easter egg or something.

You don't think at the very least older people will see Moz://a and try to type that into the browser's address bar? Also, Moz.com should expect a huge increase in its revenues soon. I imagine they already have the celebration party planned for the weekend.

I don't think older people know/care about Mozilla. Hell these days I'm not sure younger people do either, unfortunately.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#39

Post by FeepingCreature »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #7
hkjgkjy wrote: post #5

It's a cool concept - but surely there are a lot of regexps our there that will now trigger in vain. Also search engines will index "moz://a" as a different thing than "mozilla". Likely, the first will be indexed as ["moz", ":", "/", "/", "a"] and the punctuation likely be thrown out, resulting in matches for "moz" and "a".

Because search engines are using Firefox, right? This is an easter egg within the Firefox web browser. No search engine is going to notice a thing.

No, the issue is the new logo is "moz://a", so when people don't get that it's supposed to mean "mozilla" they'll type it in as "moz://a".
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