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Repoort of possible abuse of the name "firefox"

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jottbe
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Hi Mozilla-Team,

do you already know, there is a company in germany which names itself "firefox musikverlag"

you can visit it here "http://www.firefox.de/".

If you open that page, the first thing that hits the eye is the firefox logo which they pretend to provide only to link to download the firefox browser from one of your sites, but by this trick the site might appear to visitors as if it is indeed a part of the firefox brand. For example I at first thought: "hey look, now the browser-guys also enter the music-download market".

Kind regards Jott

Hi Mozilla-Team, do you already know, there is a company in germany which names itself "firefox musikverlag" you can visit it here "http://www.firefox.de/". If you open that page, the first thing that hits the eye is the firefox logo which they pretend to provide only to link to download the firefox browser from one of your sites, but by this trick the site might appear to visitors as if it is indeed a part of the firefox brand. For example I at first thought: "hey look, now the browser-guys also enter the music-download market". Kind regards Jott

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Paul
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Hi

Thank you so much for spotting that and reporting it, we really appreciate it.

I have reported this up to the appropriate people in Mozilla, but if you see any more, please let us know.

Thank you again for your help. Keep rocking the open web!