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Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by nekopa »

wott wrote: post #67
toxican wrote: post #42

While I don't like the branding move at all, I think the concern that people will start calling them moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a is a little ridiculous. Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast? No, because people aren't complete idiots. Those that are going to know/care about Mozilla will be able to tell…

> No, because people aren't complete idiots. Sweet summer child. http://www.gentside.com/le-bon-coin/le-bon-coin-un-ordinateu... http://i.imgur.com/4nMqG8C.png http://www.jofogas.hu/veszprem/Sony_mio_laptop_elado_6040346... http://archiwum.allegro.pl/oferta/sony-mio-pcg-6e1m-laptop-o... https://www.olx.in/item/sony-wio-laptop-ID19koWZ.html

This is still my favorite:

http://imgur.com/gallery/BZ9fPe1

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by qwertyuiop924 »

vollmond wrote: post #92
StevePerkins wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how a logo change begins to address that. I'm INSIDE the tech bubble, and apart from Firefox and Rust I can't name a single Mozilla project that isn't canceled (Persona, phones) or on its way there (Thunderbird). If not Firefox, then what DO you work on at Mozilla then? I'm genuinely curious.

I didn't know Rust was Mozilla. I thought it was FF, TB, and "generic OSS projects like Apache but less well-known".

Yeah, Rust is a Mozilla project. Graydon worked at Mozilla, and them interested in taking it as an official project.

Why do you think Mozilla is using Rust so much? (See servo, pushing rust components into FF, etc) They're not exactly known for jumping onto new things...

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by sametmax »

StevePerkins wrote: post #94
nstr10 wrote: post #44

Apparently our friends at Mozcolonslashslasha don't realize how many more important things they could be working on than this.

People keep talking about Mozilla like it's the engineering wing of the EFF, that it's tirelessly working on a mission of Internet freedom, etc. I'm sorry, but I just don't see it. I see: (1) a team of developers, incrementally maintaining a codebase that that was donated by a 1990's commercial entity, and (2) some second-tier marketing types, burning through Google/Yahoo money and padding their resumes with random "…

Mozilla is constantly working for the open web. Not only do they design products, but they invest in work groups and conference for that.

Hell they even produced and gave away the best documentation on the front end currently existing (MDN).

They finance other open sources projects, try to innovate all the time (they fail often, but trying new things always leads to that), pay dev to do so.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by devopsproject »

toxican wrote: post #42

While I don't like the branding move at all, I think the concern that people will start calling them moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a is a little ridiculous. Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast? No, because people aren't complete idiots. Those that are going to know/care about Mozilla will be able to tell…

it is better than "Mozzarella" or "Fox Fire" which I have heard numerous times

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by andrei_says_ »

toxican wrote: post #42

While I don't like the branding move at all, I think the concern that people will start calling them moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a is a little ridiculous. Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast? No, because people aren't complete idiots. Those that are going to know/care about Mozilla will be able to tell…

Seems like you conflate idiocy with pre-existing exposure to a brand's proper spelling.

While I see the value of this sentiment, the brands you mentioned have branding efforts that so far overspend mozilla's that the comparison is barely relevant.

Also, typing www.mo://a.org in a browser presents a serious problem.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by andrei_says_ »

toxican wrote: post #42

While I don't like the branding move at all, I think the concern that people will start calling them moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a is a little ridiculous. Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast? No, because people aren't complete idiots. Those that are going to know/care about Mozilla will be able to tell…

Seems like you conflate idiocy with pre-existing exposure to a brand's proper spelling.

While I see the value of this sentiment, the brands you mentioned have branding efforts that so far overspend mozilla's that the comparison is barely relevant.

Also, typing www.mo://a.org in a browser presents a serious problem.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by JadeNB »

toxican wrote: post #42

While I don't like the branding move at all, I think the concern that people will start calling them moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a is a little ridiculous. Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast? No, because people aren't complete idiots. Those that are going to know/care about Mozilla will be able to tell…

> Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast?

I think that a problem with all these examples is that, with the exception of "Johnson & Johnson" (where people do read '&' as it is commonly read, as 'and' rather than the name of the symbol), the decoration isn't, in fact, part of the name, so that people who ignore it correctly understand the name; whereas the decoration in moz://a is part of the name, and is not read as it would be in other contexts ('colon slash slash', back when people read full URLs aloud, slowly and awkwardly—remember those days?).

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by reitanqild »

thresh wrote: post #105
reitanqild wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance. Neither will constant picking on anything they do or don't do. > VideoLAN.org website stats tell me that Firefox hits percentage dropped from 26.3% through Jan 2016 to 21.2% through Jan 2017. I guess the reason might just be that the market is moving towards a new equilibrium. Unless we start making websites and web apps that only work in…

I'm not picking, I'm just looking at the stats I have. I've actually have it graphed on http://thre.sh/stuff/browsers-stats-videolan.org.png now.

> I'm not picking, I'm just looking at the stats

English isn't my mother tongue so I might have misread. What would you call this, in a toplevel comment about what seems to me to be a well received rebranding:

>> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by toxican »

devopsproject wrote: post #115
toxican wrote: post #42

While I don't like the branding move at all, I think the concern that people will start calling them moz-colon-forward-slash-forwadslash-a is a little ridiculous. Is Sony's line of laptops Analog Wave One Zero? Is Verizon Verizoncheckmark? Is Johnson & Johnson Johnson ampersand Johnson? Is Comcast CComcast? No, because people aren't complete idiots. Those that are going to know/care about Mozilla will be able to tell…

it is better than "Mozzarella" or "Fox Fire" which I have heard numerous times

My mother still calls it Fox Fire and Newegg, "Egghead", although I think it's mostly to annoy me. It doesn't though, but I let her think it does because it's funny.
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