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.
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.
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:
Thunderwolf
Breezefalcon
Stonehawk
Blazeleopard
Rainlynx
Frostowl
Lightningpanther
Shadowraven
Solarfox
Cloudtiger
Ok most are pretty trash but Stonehawk is good. Maybe Thunderwolf. Still better than LibreWolf.
Why are privacy/copyleft advocates so bad at naming?
They usually don’t have marketing departments or focus groups.
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.
God forbid some non-anglophone culture enters our collective consciousness.
What culture is esperanto? That is fake invented language.
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.
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:
Ok most are pretty trash but Stonehawk is good. Maybe Thunderwolf. Still better than LibreWolf.
…proceeds to not do it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You don’t think Stonehawk is a better name than LibreWolf? Kind of proving my point there.
No, I don’t, does that also prove your point?