If the world is going towards simplified logos, gotta at least make yours good. Firefox did that. Can’t complain.
I’m still going to complain.
The new one is bland and I hate the bright colors. If it was the same but with the old color palette it would be acceptable.
I love Firefox’s new logo…
Yeah, I feel like it’s one of the best current logos. It’s simplified but not oversimplified and it looks really good.
That’s not it. Mozilla has ruined firefox. They have added spyware and made google the default engine. Most of their profits go to shady places, etc
They have added spyware
Uh, yeah; gonna need a source on this. You’re allowed to not like that they made Google the default search engine, but this statement is straight up-misinformation.
I can’t rember my source so take this with a grain of salt but your browser still connects to telemetry.mozilla.org even when telemetry is turned off and you need to use something like arkenfox or install a fork like librewolf to fully disable. I discovered this after going through a rabbithole when pihole said it blocked telemetry.mozilla.org even when I disabled telemetry
I have found this support page on the matter
They also have no rule against spyware (or at least proprietary software) on addons.mozilla.org
They need money somehow, making Google the default search engine is a source of income.
You can always make startpage or ddg your default search engine anyways, both on android and desktop
Duckduckgo proxies bing search results (ober the api, they aren’t chad scrapers) and is therefore is under the foot of microsoft. This has forced them to whitelist ms trackers in their privacy tools but I haven’t heard anything bad about the search engine.
Startpage scrapes google results so isn’t under anyones foot. It has had some controversy due to being bought by an ad company but they haven’t seemed to do anything bad yet
In all, startpage is better than duckduckgo
Which search engine do you recommend?
I don’t know
Maybe brave search?
I don’t think brave is privacy friendly at all
It keeps Google from anti-competitive lawsuits. So it’s mutually beneficial, although the first thing you should do is change your search engine to a more private one.
If you are paying people to compete with you, you need some anticompetitive lawsuits.
you’re not wrong.
Most of their money goes to shady places anyway. The money is unnecessery
I couldn’t give two shits about a fucking icon.
The only correct answer. This thread can be closed.
The old logo is too busy and doesn’t look like fire. Ngl I like the new one, it feels like the fire is cradling the earth.
In that color, that’s clearly not the earth anymore
Doesn’t look like earth in the earlier either. That land area look nothing like earth
Fair point. I guess they didn’t want to reference a specific place.
Might be true
I think it’s neat especially next to the new thunderbird logo. IMHO it still has character and is not oversimplified.
Wow. I’m surprised at the dislike for the old detailed icon. Maybe it’s being old enough to remember black and white icons, but I miss the increasing amount of colors that icons had for a while there. I hate the trend toward monocolor silhouettes.
It is more the dislike of people hating on the new icon, like OP.
Either icon is fine, you may dislike one of the icons but at the end of the day it is just an icon.
You click it, it opens the software, and you move on.
BACK IN MY DAY WE DIDN’T HAVE GUIS OR COMPUTERIZED RODENTS
The original Firefox (originally called Firebird) logo be like:
Oh, hence Thunderbird.
…Wait, where are Waterbird and Landbird ? Are they safe ? Are they alright ?
Originally called Phoenix, since it was Netscape Navigator, reborn.
But Phoenix Technologies disliked that, so they renamed to a descriptive name for the same immortal bird – Firebird.
The Firebird database people would have none of that, so after a few-months gap between 0.x releases, they found the closest thing they possibly could which was not trademarked. It had nothing to do with the original name idea, fire being a weak link.
And we’ve been stuck with that stupid name for two decades.
There was a satirical addon back in this day that would change the Firefox name every time you opened it to like WaterHippo or SunJackal to make fun of this.
Every Firefox logo is a masterpiece. This one is no exception.
Nah, I like the new logo.
“What happened to me? People care more about polished functionality than their privacy, and are willing to trade privacy for something that steals all their data as long as it is “faster,” even though I’m arguably faster than Chrome at this point…”
Most regular ass people don’t give one flying fuck about being owned by corporations, they’re happy to get reamed by companies that don’t give a shit if they live or die.
2004-2009 were the golden years… Although I’d gladly use it if it had the 2002 logo my reference
I have no memory of the 2002 one and I swapped over from Netscape which is weird… I have a vague memory of their thunderbird logo looking similar at one point but maybe I’m getting them mixed up
Bring back 2005!
im not sure whether i like that one or the 2009 one better tbh.
Didn’t it used to be called Firebird or something but had to change its name due to copyright? I remember when it was v1 and seeing advertising about it in the paper. It really did start the ball rolling in getting people away from IE. Chrome then came out and dominated.
I remember installing Firebird 0.6 off a magazine cover disk!
I think I switched back to Mozilla pretty quickly as I was like “but this is just a browser, where’s email and IRC”
I guess I didn’t originally get the point. Ended up switching back a couple of years later
I’m fine with the current logo. But, the 2002 logo looks rad. After that, the logo from 2004 is cool.
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i like this newer firefox logo
I use the developer edition and it has a neat blue variant of the logo.
