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The correct abbreviation for Firefox is ‘Fx’, not ‘FF’

39 点作者 mathias将近 11 年前

18 条评论

etfb将近 11 年前
As another commenter here pointed out, it&#x27;s <i>preferred</i>, not <i>correct</i>. This is the old prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate, as seen among linguists. (Disclaimer: I am not a linguist. I just read Language Log.) If you&#x27;re fretting about the correct this and the proper that (prepositions at the end of sentences, &quot;whom&quot; instead of &quot;who&quot;, and so on), you&#x27;re a prescriptivist, and you may (note, I said <i>may</i>) be making up rules where no rules are needed. I prefer descriptivism (as in: &quot;nauseous&quot; now means the same thing as &quot;nauseated&quot;, which is different from its old meaning of &quot;nausea-making&quot;, because that&#x27;s how it&#x27;s used).<p>(Edit: &quot;different to&quot; sounded wrong. I could never remember which way that goes.)
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ozh将近 11 年前
The whole planet says &quot;FF&quot;. This makes it de facto the correct&#x2F;preferred&#x2F;official abbr
sheraz将近 11 年前
I think they need to change their FAQ. I&#x27;ve never seen it abbreviated as Fx -- only as FF.
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abdias将近 11 年前
The FAQ says <i>preferred</i> not correct though. But it feels unnatural. Having media background FX for me at least means &quot;effects&quot; (as in special effects). Firefox may be written as a single word but there are two words in there and the natural way would be FF IMO. I have seen someone use Fx once and it confused the heck out of me... sorry Mozilla, I will use FF..
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mahdavi将近 11 年前
Searching &quot;FX&quot; on Google brings nothing related to Firefox, not a single link, but &quot;FF&quot; brings Firefox download page. Sorry but I&#x27;m going to stick with FF.
restlessdesign将近 11 年前
…and “GIF” is supposed to be pronounced “JIFF” …and “npm” doesn’t <i>really</i> stand for “Node Package Manager”<p><i>sigh</i>
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davidgerard将近 11 年前
I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll convince everyone in the world before the end of time.
Derpdiherp将近 11 年前
I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s many situations where you&#x27;d have to abbreviate Firefox anyway, it&#x27;s not a large word to begin with. Internet Explorer as IE I can understand, it&#x27;s large and compounding it is useful - but we don&#x27;t abbreviate Opera or Chrome?
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CPLX将近 11 年前
In related news they would prefer we use FrskQet instead of FAQ
notduncansmith将近 11 年前
I wonder if they were inspired by Steve Wilhite (creator of the &quot;jif&quot;).
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bruceb将近 11 年前
FF is faster to type. I doubt most people who abbreviated it will change to Fx.
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digitalcreate将近 11 年前
I&#x27;m looking through their bug reports and developer message boards all of the time... and I&#x27;ve never seen anyone abbreviate it as anything other than &quot;FF&quot;.
usingpond将近 11 年前
Ugh, shut up, nobody cares. Hey, maybe start taking care of your God-awful rendering engine and CPU cycles instead of wasting time on stuff like this?
rikkus将近 11 年前
I use ffx, because unambiguity
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peapicker将近 11 年前
Good luck with that, Mozilla.
otikik将近 11 年前
Well, that page is wrong.
izietto将近 11 年前
What about Fifx :)
mkesper将近 11 年前
What was the point of showing this here?