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I did but I don't see FF splitting from Mozilla (by whatever mechanism) either sadly and if you lose the name it becomes hard to get adoption for the forked one - see IceWeasel.




that being said IceWeasel is a particularly bad name

I mean the primary image editor in open source land is Gimp (which I had to explain to an ex many years ago when she hopped on my PC) and our main open source source control system is called `git` (funnier if you are British) so open source devs have form for picking bad names :D.

`Git can be a right git` is a valid sentence here.




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