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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You monster! It's clearly "gif".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Get it right or Get It Fight