Firefox removing terminology from browser that has been identified as derogatory
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A chess grandmaster does not imply the existence of chess grandslaves. The Sega Master System didn't enslave other game systems. A master key is just a key with wider scope than the regular keys.
It's so frustrating that an issue inside American society impacts 93% of the World who is not American.
We should drop American english as primary language and in this case use the German meister or even better the Italian mastro or its Latin root magister
Which are all translations of master and have no relation with slavery of any kind.
Like we also did to disambiguate free (gratis - another Latin word ) from libre (from Latin - again - liber)
English is too ambiguous and irregular.
EDIT: not for these decisions, but incidentally using Libre in the name, my goto alternative has become Librewolf. For the few websites that are broken in LW I use Brave.
Master/servant implies different levels of authority and control.
Personally - I find the later much more compelling from a descriptive standpoint for this use of passwords.
Honestly, there are a ton of alternatives that I think make more sense - ex - Control password - Premier password - God password (although this probably violates some other policy...)
etc...
but primary is more familiar and and they probably liked the alliteration. Really - this just feels like marketing, though.
It's a reason to make people think & talk about Mozilla that's.... drumroll... once again not actually a compelling product or experience.
Those words don't mean the same thing, though. I would think a "master password" gives me access to anything any of the other passwords do, but "primary password" implies it has access to more things than any other password but not necessarily everything. If you must change it to appease what is probably like three people, call it the "supreme password" or "ruler password" or "king password" or "ultimate password".
@dang can we get a ruling on whether this submission violates the HN guidelines? Whenever something goes from flagged to vouched over and over it's being driven by ideology.
If they stopped to think 30 seconds they would have come with root or principal that are much better replacements for master in the sense it is used here.
But that's not what they had in mind, sadly.
Yes. Meanwhile their browser market share keeps going on a steady decline. In 3-4 years it will be ~1% and that will be effectively the end of Mozilla.
Time to reconfigure GitHub to use “master” default branch to tick off idiots.
Is it like a master key? A master key operates all locks in a set. Other keys can each open one lock. The master key doesn't own or otherwise control the other keys. It "lets you in everywhere" directly.
A master password is a password used to control access to other passwords. The other passwords are slaves. This is a master-slave metaphor.
Also, changing which word you use to refer to a thing is really not that hard.
No, it does not. What a pathetic, pandering crock of BS.
Also "master-slave" doesn't make sense; that would be a slave that's a master.
Firefox was my go-to alternate browser (after Safari), but not any more.
Meanwhile, are people down-ranking the post of this article because they don't like what it says? Wow. I thought more of HN users, but this site seems to be going the way of Reddit.
> Master-key, one that will open ("master") a number of locks so differently constructed that the key proper to each will open none of the others" is from 1570s
Master means master, that’s the point - that for you there is no lord/serf, owner/owned, etc is irrelevant.
For a fairly large, non-zero portion of the world there is a strong negative connotation, and there is literally zero cost to using terminology that lacks any negative connotation.
The only reason to be resoundingly opposed to this is the standard reactionary anti-wokeness people have come to expect from people who see acknowledgement that others have been subject to such as being an attack on their identity.