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Firebox Lockfox? Firelock Boxfox? Lockfire Foxbox? Ugh, we tried them all, I swear..


Just plain old Lockfox. However, I understand you probably have some branding/marketing/PR concerns to keep in mind with naming.


Lockfox sounds like something that breaks or works around locks to me, fox being a sneacky tricky animal; not really reassuring.


>> "fox being a sneacky tricky animal"

Foxes are good and pure creatures.


But it has certain connotations in many cultures, which is not positive. I too like them and know they aren't a part of our value system, but naming a security product that is meant to protect your valuable stuff "fox" is like calling a bank Robbers&co.


That was humor. I'm aware of the centuries of anti-fox propaganda.


Only for now. This is just the beginning of an experimental product and we're hoping to bring it far and wide later.

Other than "every", what language or regions would you want/expect/need first?


Honestly, the region shouldn't matter. If you want you could add a little notice that it's English-only for now, but there's absolutely no reason to limit this to a particular country. It's a totally free service and it doesn't involve complicated region-specific licensing agreements, so where someone lives quite simply does not matter.


All English speaking countries would be a good start for (almost?) zero effort on Mozilla's part.


I hope you are aware of the fact that language and geography most of the time don't match because one person is capable to speak/read multiple languages and that English is understood by people outside of the USA?


Yes, us guys and gals working on the app are planning on the iOS 12 autofill API integration: https://github.com/mozilla-lockbox/lockbox-ios/issues/445



Yes, thank you! Moving too fast today. :)


Keep up the good work! Not surprised you are already considering it.


We hear ya and we're thinking about it. But, it would be a while before we started to build one. An Android app is up next up on our list...


Hmmm, it may also be a symptom of something similar we've seen intermittently here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424397


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