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It’s not FF dammit, it’s Fx!

By on May 27, 2009

Firefox is the browser that the world loves to love. But there is a lot of confusion regarding its spelling and abbreviation. I have seen a lot of people abbreviating Firefox as FF or even writing Firefox as FireFox.

Mozilla had done their bit to clarify the matter as far back as 2005. From their FAQ :

How do I capitalize Firefox? How do I abbreviate it?

Only the first letter is capitalized (so it’s Firefox, not FireFox.) The preferred abbreviation is “Fx” or “fx”.

There you have it! Even I was unaware of this. Credit for correcting me goes to my friend [deXter]. And now you also know.

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7 responses to “It’s not FF dammit, it’s Fx!”

  1. George Serradinho
    George Serradinho May 27, 2009 at 10:07 pm |

    Hi, thanks for visiting my site.

    I am one of those people who refer to it as FF and not Fx. Thanks for correcting me. I will remember this is future 🙂

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  2. George Serradinho
    George Serradinho May 27, 2009 at 10:10 pm |

    Hi again,

    just wanted to say that I think your gravatar is cool 🙂

    Another thing is that your area to input the users name, mail and website are just white spaces using Fx. You see, I got it 🙂

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  3. Pallab
    Pallab May 27, 2009 at 10:50 pm |

    Thanks.
    And I am going to fix this tommorow (hopefully). You are probably the 3rd reader who notified me about this issue. I am way too lazy.

  4. thegands
    thegands May 28, 2009 at 11:30 am |

    Hahaha… i’m also same with george. I also call firefox with FF, not Fx..
    Thanx for make this clear..

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  5. Nihar
    Nihar May 28, 2009 at 4:52 pm |

    All the time , i was thinking Firefox as FF not Fx.

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  6. Venkat
    Venkat July 8, 2009 at 12:45 pm |

    Google Fx 3.5 and FF 3.5. I generally don’t prefer using abbreviations but if I have to use it I would use something which is known to everyone (FF in this case)… doesn’t matter what Mozilla FAQ says.

  7. J-
    J- July 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm |

    Hello,

    I was participating in few dicussions about “Firefox: fx or ff”. Though preferred shortcut of Firefox is fx (according to its creators) it is not so clear as it seems. Firefox has it’s own Google search page (Mozilla.org to be accurate: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a). I guess it was accepted and monitored by Firefox creators, though look at the bottom hint (one of few showing randomly), the one that informing about new version of firefox. There is a image (spray can with digit 3), as we can see, spray can have dwo letters, those letters are “ff”.

    🙂