[everfree]

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.)

[bobsoap]

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.

[joshmanders]

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

[jacobgkau]

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.

[Timwi]

When the Mozilla foundation took over the Netscape codebase, it was initially called Mozilla, or Mozilla Browser. There was also a Mozilla email client that came from Netscape Communicator.

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.

[latexr]

> I've never heard anyone my age (27) or younger call it that

Anecdotally, I’ve heard both people older and younger than you calling it Mozilla. And not tech-illiterate people, either.

[jacobgkau]

> And not tech-illiterate people, either.

Yeah, again, probably because tech-literate (not tech-illiterate) people are more likely to know the history of the organization beyond when they started using the software. My point was pretty much that the know-nothing user learning about the software today/recently knows it's called Firefox and might never have heard of Mozilla. The branding is clear about Firefox and the Mozilla name is essentially background knowledge.

[itintheory]

I prefer "Mozzarella Foxfire".

[hatthew]

anecdotally, I have never heard anybody call the browser software "mozilla" alone

[jraph]

I once heard Mozzarella.

Can you imagine the cheesy user-agent strings we'd have?

[latexr]

And Acrobat “Adobe”. I wonder if those mistakes are less prevalent in cultures where the family name comes first.

[pix128]

Acrobat Reader was called "Adobe Reader" for a good number of years.

[1718627440]

It's in the window title in desktop shortcuts and gets appended to every tab in the task bar: -- Mozilla Firefox

[Medea]

chrome.com redirects to www.google.com/chrome/

No one has to download Edge or Safari.

[tech234a]

Technically Edge can also be installed on macOS/Linux/iOS/Android.

[ascorbic]

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

[sebastiennight]

No one wants ...

FTFY

[jacobgkau]

I know you're making a joke, but I enjoyed having Safari installed when Apple made it for Windows too, and would still want to download it today if it was available. You can't, though.

[jacobgkau]

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.

[ImJamal]

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

[gertlex]

Sure, but not relevant to a post countering

> Now Firefox is the only browser with a home page domain the same as its common name.

[_Algernon_]

chrome.com redirects to https://www.google.com/chrome/ for whatever it's worth.

[katrinarrlyn]

hahaha, indeed. but i always can't remember mozilla (i don't even know i spelled it right), the other is really to remember, and automatically you know google has a chrome browser, etc.