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The correct abbreviation for Firefox is ‘Fx’, not ‘FF’
- Derpdiherp 12y agoI don't think there's many situations where you'd have to abbreviate Firefox anyway, it's not a large word to begin with. Internet Explorer as IE I can understand, it's large and compounding it is useful - but we don't abbreviate Opera or Chrome?
- weavie 12y agoAll the browsers could be abbreviated to COFFIE. if it wasn't for IE we'd have a perfect acronym there. Darn IE messing things up again...
- stuaxo 12y agoEthernet Explorer ?
- Eiwatah4 12y agoInternet Navigator
- icebraining 12y agoSafari?
- counterplex 12y agoCOFFIES then. IE remains an offender.
- marcosdumay 12y agoCOFFIES
- yati 12y agoThe only places I've seen this abbreviation(and that too, mostly FF for Firefox, but FxOS for Firefox OS) is their IRC dev channels and/or mailing lists.
- Derpdiherp 12y agoAh I didn't think of the OS, that's a good point!
- user24 12y agoI've abbreviated Chrome to Ch (and Firefox to Fx).
- bruceb 12y agoFF is faster to type. I doubt most people who abbreviated it will change to Fx.
- wazari972 12y agoI think it's too late to expect any change, the webpage is from 2005, for FF 1.5 ;-)
- bitJericho 12y agoYs, bcuz if its aster to type its best
- sheraz 12y agoI think they need to change their FAQ. I've never seen it abbreviated as Fx -- only as FF.
- yati 12y agoAgreed FF is more popular than Fx, but Firefox OS is mostly abbreviated as FxOS[which IMO is much cooler than FFOS]
- icantthinkofone 12y agoI do see it as Fx here and there.
- lmm 12y agoThe link goes to an old FAQ in their website archive.
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoI have only ever see Fx being used to abbreviate the words "Effects" and "Framework". Never for Firefox. However, Wikipedia confirms that people do use it for Firefox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX
- notduncansmith 12y agoI wonder if they were inspired by Steve Wilhite (creator of the "jif").
- robert_tweed 12y agoIt's definitely going in the same file as that and mebibytes.
- abdias 12y agoThe FAQ says preferred not correct though. But it feels unnatural. Having media background FX for me at least means "effects" (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..
- michaelmior 12y agoThey do say Fx and not FX which would appear different to me, although I'm sure many would assume Fx == FX.
- johnchristopher 12y agoThey do write Fx and not FX but I can't see how they would differentiate Fx from FX in a spoken conversation.
- rglullis 12y agoDo you abbreviate when speaking about Firefox?
- johnchristopher 12y agoIt happens, yes. But it might be because of the specificities of my first language (french). I don't think I would abbreviate it when speaking english though. My mistake, I should have taken that into account.
- arcatek 12y agoDepending on the context, FF can also mean Final Fantasy.
- brazzy 12y agoIt can also mean a sexual practice. I'll leave it as an exercise for the kind reader to figure out which one.
- rikkus 12y agoI use ffx, because unambiguity
- davidgerard 12y agoI'm sure they'll convince everyone in the world before the end of time.
- CPLX 12y agoIn related news they would prefer we use FrskQet instead of FAQ
- etfb 12y agoAs another commenter here pointed out, it's preferred, not correct. 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're fretting about the correct this and the proper that (prepositions at the end of sentences, "whom" instead of "who", and so on), you're a prescriptivist, and you may (note, I said may) be making up rules where no rules are needed. I prefer descriptivism (as in: "nauseous" now means the same thing as "nauseated", which is different from its old meaning of "nausea-making", because that's how it's used). (Edit: "different to" sounded wrong. I could never remember which way that goes.)
- thanatropism 12y agoSo, the correct nomenclature here is "preferred" rather than "correct"? Or is "preferred" a "preferred" word, but "correct" is allowable?
- dantheta 12y agoAs an aside to your edit, I have also seen "different than" used more and more often of late. I'm not sure if it is an Americanism that I was just unaware of. It's not that "different than" is wrong, it's just different from what I'm used to!
- cokernel 12y agoYes, "different than" is an Americanism. I believe that "different from" is most common across all dialects of English: http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxdiffer.html http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxdiffer.html (Note: This only compares UK English and American English, not "all dialects".)
- etfb 12y agoIn Year Eight at school, I had an English teacher who liked to mix things up a little. One time, I was answering a question in class, and I used "different to" or "different from" or something -- maybe even "different than", I don't remember now. The teacher told me to stand up, then explained that there was a right form and a wrong form for this, and got everyone to pick sides -- "than" here, "from" there and "to" over there. Then I bamboozled him, because I noticed that the smartest girl in the class, a gorgeous lass who gloried in the surname of Snodgrass, had picked a different side, so I reasoned that she was more likely right and defected to the same group. The teacher was deeply annoyed that I apparently didn't have the courage of my convictions; my point, which I understood instinctively even at that age, was that embarrassing a student to make a point was a totally shit way to educate people, and if he was going to place such a high premium on game playing in class, he could call me Kobayashi Maru. To this day, I still can't remember which is correct - "than", "from" or "to". But I can remember the look on his face, and the fact that after that he stuck with slightly less aggravating teaching methods.
- izietto 12y agoWhat about Fifx :)
- mkesper 12y agoWhat was the point of showing this here?
- ozh 12y agoThe whole planet says "FF". This makes it de facto the correct/preferred/official abbr
- mahdavi 12y agoSearching "FX" on Google brings nothing related to Firefox, not a single link, but "FF" brings Firefox download page. Sorry but I'm going to stick with FF.
- otikik 12y agoWell, that page is wrong.
- restlessdesign 12y ago…and “GIF” is supposed to be pronounced “JIFF” …and “npm” doesn’t really stand for “Node Package Manager” sigh
- wlesieutre 12y agoFrom wikipedia: Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for "Node Package Manager." It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for "npm is not an acronym." (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an acronym, and thus incorrectly named.) So the author named it npm for node package manager, then wanted to sound clever so he said it doesn't stand for that? He could just as easily called it "aslkdjghasjklg" and said it's an abbreviated version of "aslkdjghasjklg is not an acronym. And that would still be dumb. It's like inventing a device to produce collimated beams of light, and then naming it "laser" for "laser is not an acronym" when everyone knows what it actually means.
- naturalethic 12y agoMaybe you need to get your satire detector checked?
- wlesieutre 12y agoWikipedia is not really a place for satire.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoEveryone I've ever met pronounces it jif as in the peanut butter as that's what the creator intended and disseminated way back when.
- wlesieutre 12y agoI've never met anyone who pronounces it that way; we all use a hard g like "graphics." I'm curious if this differs regionally like most pronunciations, or if it's spread in different patterns because it's mainly said online.
- usingpond 12y agoUgh, 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?
- peapicker 12y agoGood luck with that, Mozilla.
- digitalcreate 12y agoI'm looking through their bug reports and developer message boards all of the time... and I've never seen anyone abbreviate it as anything other than "FF".