It's not a mistake. Firefox is referenced throughout the documentation. Looks li...

sp332 · on Jan 20, 2016

Mozilla is very protective of their trademark though. You're supposed to replace their branding with your own before distributing your modified code.

reubenmorais · on Jan 20, 2016

You're supposed to remove the branding from the binary — as in user visible logos and names —, not the source code.

You can't reasonably expect forks to remove all the thousands of references to "Firefox" from the source code, like in comments, component names, etc.

GFK_of_xmaspast · on Jan 20, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed

reubenmorais · on Jan 20, 2016

Yeah, but it'd be a silly requirement, and would make syncing upstream changes to your fork needlessly difficult. My point is the Firefox branding stuff does not apply to the source code of forks.

chris_wot · on Jan 20, 2016

Oh yeah, that would be really easy.

GFK_of_xmaspast · on Jan 20, 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find

chris_wot · on Jan 21, 2016

Digging that hole deeper and deeper there I see.

rockdoe · on Jan 20, 2016

Venturebeat claims it's based on Chromium, but they also seem to be pretty confused because they're calling it "a brand new browser, because (builing on top of existing browsers) would imply limited functionality by virtue of their application programming interfaces (APIs) and less impressive performance gains"

http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/20/brave-browser/

So it's Chrome on Desktop, Firefox for iOS on iOS?

ainar-g · on Jan 20, 2016

Firefox on iOS is built with WebKit, not Gecko [1]. IIRC, it's because Apple doesn't like engines that are not WebKit. Chromium uses Blink, which is a fork of WebKit, so Firefox for iOS and Chromium are relatives in a sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_for_iOS.

reubenmorais · on Jan 20, 2016

It's based on GitHub's Electron (Chromium) on desktop, and Firefox for iOS on iOS: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/172/brave-software