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PSA: You're abbreviating Firefox wrong (website-archive.mozilla.org)
submitted 11 months ago by blarp@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Kind of a click-baity title; I apologize.

For some while now I've been seeing the abbreviation of Firefox slowly mutate from Fx/fx to FF.

From the release notes:

How do I spell Firefox? How do I abbreviate it?

Firefox is spelled F-i-r-e-f-o-x - only the first letter capitalized (i.e. not FireFox, not Foxfire, FoxFire or whatever else a number of folk seem to think it to be called.) The preferred abbreviation is "Fx" or "fx".

I mean, it makes total sense to abbreviate Firefox with two capital Fs, and the documentation does say "preferred abbreviation," but I just wanted to make those of you who didn't know about this aware...aware of the fact that you're abbreviating Fx wrong, God dammit!

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[-] DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

neat bit of info. I'll still continue using ff and pronouncing gif as gif

[-] qupada@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

You monster! It's clearly "gif".

[-] 667@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

They just let anyone on the internet nowadays. It’s GIF, not GIF. Get it right.

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 11 months ago

Get it right or Get It Fight

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