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Name feels a little too close Konqueror to me. It's odd, nothing about this browser suggests an association with conkers, yet they've chosen this name which is very similar to an existing browser.

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I aggree. Konqueror is no niche browse, it's the grandfather of half the mainline browsers.

I'd say more. 90% of mobile browsers are WebKit/Blink-based.

And WebKit is based on? And Blink is based on?

That was his point. You might have missed the first sentence in his post which said "I'd say more."

He was saying the 50% estimate was too conservative.

Damn. i failed :(

+1 I doubt it would cause confusion, but it's nice to be respectful to existing OSS projects and anyone that makes web browsers should have a lot of respect for Konquerer.

Just now, I was confused. I remembered there were two browsers with roughly the same name, and when I saw the title I had to think about which was which.

  due to the fact that "Conkeror" is a homonym with the name of the web
  browser "Konqueror", the full name of the browser in spoken English is
  "Conkeror (with a C)"

Yes, when I would tell people I used Conkeror they'd always reply with, "Ah yes, I know Konqueror". That was only really IRL conversations, with text based mediums I don't think I had any confusions.

The first time I saw it mentioned, I thought it was just a weird misspelling.

Don't know if you are being sarcastic... But "conqueror" may be a reference to Age of Discovery/Conquest [1], similar to "navigator" or "explorer".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery

To be fair, this project has been using its current name for at least five years, so now is probably not the time to raise objections.

You can't raise an objection to a project you never knew about, can you? It's a legitimate point, and the name is certainly close to Konqueror.

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