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50 points

Best to switch to Firefox anyways, or even better privacy enhanced LibreWolf

This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom. LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

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LibreWolf

Why are privacy/copyleft advocates so bad at naming?

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Mintest, after only just (*inhales)

13 YEARS

finally rebranded to… something starting with “Lua”. And I already forget the rest of the name because FOSS people suck at naming.

And I only even remembered the first part because I had once written mods in Lua, Mintest’s scripting language of choice. Good luck for name recognition with anybody else.

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23 points

They usually don’t have marketing departments or focus groups.

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You obviously don’t need those to come up with a good name; just some taste. Signal is a great example. Ladybird and Servo are good browser names if you want to stick to that. LibreWolf? Jesus, come on guys. Forgejo is another terrible name I heard recently. Apparently it’s Esperanto, like that makes it ok somehow.

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11 points

What would you call it instead?

We already have (had) Iceweasel, IceCat and Waterfox among others. All nice word plays on the original Firefox name. LibreWolf follows along the same path.

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You don’t have to use the exact same <element><animal> naming scheme. But even if you did it’s pretty trivial to come up with better names. I bet even ChatGPT can do it. Here’s the list it came up with for me:

  1. Thunderwolf
  2. Breezefalcon
  3. Stonehawk
  4. Blazeleopard
  5. Rainlynx
  6. Frostowl
  7. Lightningpanther
  8. Shadowraven
  9. Solarfox
  10. Cloudtiger

Ok most are pretty trash but Stonehawk is good. Maybe Thunderwolf. Still better than LibreWolf.

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