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I tried typing www.moz:lla.org in the browser but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong? (I know what I'm doing wrong but not everyone would. Typing a brand'

I tried typing www.moz:lla.org in the browser but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong? (I know what I'm doing wrong but not everyone would. Typing a brand's name in the browser in the hopes to get to their website is not illogical.)

Mister_Snuggles 10y ago
You mistook the slashes ('/') for l's, try typing: www.moz://a.org
- Nizoss 10y ago
  Does this work only in Firefox? What does it show?
  - panglott 10y ago
    The top DuckDuckGo result was the Museum of Modern Art (moma.org).
- lima 10y ago
  It's not a valid URL so it goes to the Google search? :-)
- excalibur 10y ago
  "a.org" is apparently owned by "AutismAwareness.com", which is poor planning on Mozilla's part. I wish to know more about this "moz" protocol.
- andrei_says_ 10y ago
  You're right! Wait, this didn't work even more. (It's a great day for moz.com, the first result in my region) Humor aside, what a disaster. I love Mozilla so much, so a failure in any of its branding aspects is painful for me. I'm wondering, is this caused by "smart people's blindness" -- the inability to see the world through the eyes of less educated individuals? In this case, presuming that * everyone knows how urls work and the role of slashes and semicolon * everyone knows it's "mozilla" despite substituting letters for punctuation But Mozilla is a large organization... how did they do a full rebranding without focus groups or at least showing it to a varied types of people. Lastly, where's my dinosaur?
  - Vinnl 10y ago
    They did do focus groups, apparently your concern wasn't actually a problem: https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/ https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/
    - andrei_says_ 10y ago
      Can you point me to the part where they considered this issue and decided it's not a problem? I looked at some of the blog posts but couldn't find this topic.

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I tried typing www.moz:lla.org in the browser but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong? (I know what I'm doing wrong but not everyone would. Typing a brand'

by andrei_says_ 10y ago

Mister_Snuggles 10y ago
You mistook the slashes ('/') for l's, try typing: www.moz://a.org
- Nizoss 10y ago
  Does this work only in Firefox? What does it show?
  - panglott 10y ago
    The top DuckDuckGo result was the Museum of Modern Art (moma.org).
- lima 10y ago
  It's not a valid URL so it goes to the Google search? :-)
- excalibur 10y ago
  "a.org" is apparently owned by "AutismAwareness.com", which is poor planning on Mozilla's part. I wish to know more about this "moz" protocol.
- andrei_says_ 10y ago
  You're right! Wait, this didn't work even more. (It's a great day for moz.com, the first result in my region) Humor aside, what a disaster. I love Mozilla so much, so a failure in any of its branding aspects is painful for me. I'm wondering, is this caused by "smart people's blindness" -- the inability to see the world through the eyes of less educated individuals? In this case, presuming that * everyone knows how urls work and the role of slashes and semicolon * everyone knows it's "mozilla" despite substituting letters for punctuation But Mozilla is a large organization... how did they do a full rebranding without focus groups or at least showing it to a varied types of people. Lastly, where's my dinosaur?
  - Vinnl 10y ago
    They did do focus groups, apparently your concern wasn't actually a problem: https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/ https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/
    - andrei_says_ 10y ago
      Can you point me to the part where they considered this issue and decided it's not a problem? I looked at some of the blog posts but couldn't find this topic.