since it’s still a variant of a *fox, Fennec. nice and simple, the Fennec web browser.
Sure, it’s just my tired brain that got the transliteration mixed up with sardinian spelling late at night.
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Firefox for mobile, codenamed “Fennec” - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec
Fennec already is known as an android version of firefox, I’m posting this from fennec.
That we’ve reached the phase when everyone starts suggesting names proves to me that the Firefox port is indeed quite far along… 
I hope we’ll be allowed to call it Firefox. Having a well known browser running on the OS would reflect very favourably on Haiku.
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“Fox” in Spanish is “zorro”. I can see the icon designers perking up already.
New names… hmh… Hozilla, only one letter change!
… or HaikuFox…
HaikuFox is a bit too on the nose in my opinion
Maybe call it Hairefox ?
I tried “Nightly” on Beta5, the window does not respond to input either by mouse or keyboard.
…A system error is thrown after closing the window.
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Kirikou
small but clever and strong !
Install the right wayland_server, here it’s:
https://github.com/kenz-gelsoft/gecko-dev/releases/download/HAIKU128_DEBUG20240827/wayland_server-0.1.20230326-2-x86_64.hpkg
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Both wayland packages are build against nightly, I can’t install them on R1B5.
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That package requires Haiku nightly.
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Use the package tool to extract it and remove the dependecy in .PackageInfo, it’s a pointless dependecy since it works on the release version.
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Or extract and copy/move the libraries to ~/config/non-packaged/lib 
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I did more in BeOS way, extracted libraries to home lib (wanted to this app directory…).
Now Nightly works!..
What doesn’t work:
• the third-fourth levels of the keyboard do not work;
• often the program dies, system errors are thrown.
FooZilla, Fotzilla or ForZilla or just Zilla or Zella and WebZilla WebZilla, HaKuWeb
Kenz created an hpkg for wayland server that works fine on Beta5. I don’t think I had to rename it, can’t remember if I did or didn’t.
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I like the idea to call it Forefix as suggested in
I guess it was a joke, but it is an useful name for some aspects.
First, I don’t want good name to be loved for this tentative distribution. Because it reduces our motivation for efforts to make it genuine Firefox.
The efforts are: Upstreaming patches, making patches sane for it (Find acceptable reasonable ways fixing or working around problems to upstream reviewers). Fixing bugs to meet Firefox community’s release criteria. And so on.
The name has related to originals Firefox (as an anagram) and somewhat specific than Nightly. It is better than most liked Bezilla name (in the naming thread) because it doesn’t work on BeOS.
But, bezilla or nightly is OK to me for this purpose.
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