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Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by ajkjk »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16
xaerise wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was owned by a UK company called Firefox. They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page. When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.

That‘s… commendable… or foolish? I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.

In this day and age anyone going against profit motive is commendable. the default is "fuck people over but not care because you're abstracted away from them". It's the tragedy of our times. Big respect for anyone who's willing to fight it.

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by jacobgkau »

joshmanders wrote: post #28
bobsoap wrote: post #21

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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.

Literally everyone I know who isn't technical calls Firefox "mozilla". Including older people.

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.

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by pixxel »

aspenmayer wrote: post #27
tech234a wrote: post #15

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I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.

I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that. The normal download page embeds a unique tracking alphanumeric string in your build that is reported to the organization on a regular basis when the telemetry phones home unless you disable this manually and clear the values.

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Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

#34

Post by ImJamal »

jacobgkau wrote: post #24
everfree wrote: post #14

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Chrome = Google.com Edge = Microsoft.com Safari = Apple.com Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around. Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name. (Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)

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.

Opera, Vivaldi and Brave are the names of the companies that own the browser though?

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by imjonse »

ajkjk wrote: post #31
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That‘s… commendable… or foolish? I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.

In this day and age anyone going against profit motive is commendable. the default is "fuck people over but not care because you're abstracted away from them". It's the tragedy of our times. Big respect for anyone who's willing to fight it.

many times it is rationalized as "fuck people over because even if I don't, someone else will, so I might as well be the one to profit". An attitude that scales well from individuals to big corporations.

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by [deleted] »

joshmanders wrote: post #28
bobsoap wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Literally everyone I know who isn't technical calls Firefox "mozilla". Including older people.

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Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by HelloUsername »

aspenmayer wrote: post #27
tech234a wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always liked https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ but that's not the primary consumer page.

I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that. The normal download page embeds a unique tracking alphanumeric string in your build that is reported to the organization on a regular basis when the telemetry phones home unless you disable this manually and clear the values.

> I hear that they don’t embed tracking metadata in those builds on the FTP, but I haven’t confirmed that.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677497#c0

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by Daviey »

yogorenapan wrote: post #19
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #16

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That‘s… commendable… or foolish? I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.

And what, have it serve as malware/phishing? Thankfully most people still seem to have morals and not fallen prey to pure capitalism

Pretty good place to download Chrome or IE, depending who bought it.

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

#39

Post by ascorbic »

Medea wrote: post #17
everfree wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome = Google.com Edge = Microsoft.com Safari = Apple.com Seems like Firefox is now the outlier, not the other way around. Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name. (Note: I’m not saying that I think it’s a bad thing.)

chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/ No one has to download Edge or Safari.

Ahem https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/mac

Re: Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com

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Post by hayleox »

bobsoap wrote: post #4

Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"

I mean, doesn't everybody just google the thing they want and click the first result? I don't think I've heard of people just guessing ".com" since back in the days before the browser address bar doubled as a search bar.
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