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.)
No one has to download Edge or Safari.
FTFY
If you're trying to get non-technical people to try an underdog browser, simplicity helps. A single, straightforward brand name is better.
Anecdotally, I’ve heard both people older and younger than you calling it Mozilla. And not tech-illiterate people, either.
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.
Can you imagine the cheesy user-agent strings we'd have?
> Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.
See
When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.
I would have rented or sold it to the highest bidder.
Not said with judgement, just observing.
Seems more like speculating than observing. Unless you can elaborate on what proof you have that each of the individuals you've "observed" (which doesn't include GP) were lonely and had handouts.
Or you could sell it to a malware site, who would lose it fairly quickly but might be able to make some cash in the meantime. I can't imagine they'd earn much though. The old firefox.com didn't have Google juice until after the transition.
The only value in the firefox.com domain is the ability to shake down Mozilla for a sum less than the cost of filing a trademark lawsuit. Which is significant, but not extremely so.
Do you also steal from the library? Mozilla isn't some big bad corporation.
Personally, I'd be a little wary of pissing off the hackers who are fans of that browser using my meatspace name, but hey, you do you. Maybe when you're done you can stroll on down to the local motorcycle bar and kick over some Harleys and see how far that takes you in life.
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jraph•3h ago
At a time when you'd also install spybot and ccleaner.
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aspenmayer•4h ago
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.
HelloUsername•3h ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1677497#c0
aspenmayer•3h ago
Is Firefox a honeypot? I can’t see how this serves the user. All telemetry should be opt-in, not opt-out.
We want failsafe, not faildeadly.