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Okay sorry nobody's said it yet. I'll say it.

You cannot call it that.

I will not be entering the workplace and suggesting that we use a product whose name is very easily mistaken for "the F word". It is an immediate non-starter.

(I'm sure it's a great project, and you probably meant for people to pronounce the name as "folks" rather than... y'know, the other way. I'm telling you this in a spirit of kindness so your project can be more successful and see increased adoption)



Eh - my take is it's just "Fox" (as clearly indicated by the large fox in the logo).

Firefox did just fine with that name. I don't really think it's a huge problem.


It's literally that word in Afrikaans!

edit: actually, I'm not sure if "fok" is used, but "fokken" is and it's fairly obvious what it means.


Zero FOKS given


Not a Firefox user I take it?




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