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LibreWolf

Why are privacy/copyleft advocates so bad at naming?

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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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Apparently it’s Esperanto, like that makes it ok somehow.

God forbid some non-anglophone culture enters our collective consciousness.

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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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don’t sleep on frost owl. Owl heads are kind of round so it would make a good icon.

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everyone could do it

…proceeds to not do it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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