A vocal group of users and developers have long advocated adopting a new
name for Conkeror. They worried that confusion would arise in the
browser marketplace because 'Conkeror' and KDE's browser 'Konqueror'
share the same pronunciation. There was also concern that the necessity
of qualifying the name as 'Conkeror-with-a-C' in conversation to avoid
such confusion was an unacceptable inconvenience - and sometimes would
not preclude confusion at all.
After many painful hours of deliberation and debate, Conkeror developers
have finally agreed that the time has come to choose a new name. The
process has been a difficult one, what with the hundreds of exceptional
suggestions from Conkeror's legions of dedicated users - such as
geckomacs, xulmacs, mozmacs, firemacs, webmacs, ciefti (Conkeror is
Emacs for the Internet), and of course cwac (Conkeror with a C) - but
the developers have finally reached a majority consensus, and Conkeror's
new name has been chosen.
In keeping with the idea that the browser's name should have a
meaningful etymology, the new name goes one step further by referring to
the project itself. Specifically, the new name evokes feelings the
developers themselves experienced during the deliberation process, such
as the following sentiments.
Conkeror developer John Foerch was heard stating, "I don't [expletive
deleted] care anymore. I'm so tired of talking about this. Just pick a
[expletive deleted] name already and never talk to me about this again!"
Conkeror developer Nick Zigarovich seemed to vacillate, one day
advocating retaining Conkeror as the browser's name, the next day
becoming frustrated when new users would complain that this new
konqueror browser really sucked, and then proceeded to tell their friends.
Conkeror developer Deniz Dogan, unable to handle the pressure of the
deliberation process, suffered a break-down early on. He was last seen
curled up in the corner of a padded room, drooling on his pajamas,
muttering gibberish while rapidly moving his finger up and down over his
lips, producing a noise which could be transcribed as "mmbrlrlbmrbrlb".
The developers have chosen a name which commemorates this historic
event, which is easy to pronounce, which could not possibly be mistaken
for other software, and which honors the lost friend and co-developer Deniz.
Conkeror shall from this day forward be known as mmbrlrlbmrbrlb.
Piecemeal migration to http://mmbrlrlbmrbrlb.org will take place over
the next month, and the source code is expected to reflect this change
within the next two weeks. The IRC channel will move to #mmbrlrlbmrbrlb
on Freenode when the source code reflects the new name.
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