[Conkeror] Conkeror Gets a New Name

[Nicholas A. Zigarovich]

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.