If the world is going towards simplified logos, gotta at least make yours good. Firefox did that. Can’t complain.
I couldn’t give two shits about a fucking icon.
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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.
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.
“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
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
Nah, I like the new logo.
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what happened to you
Near fifteen years, bræh.
Wait another fifteen.
I’m sure quite a few people can agree that we do not like the oversimplifying of logos. I know I sure as hell don’t. The old logo was so much better looking if you ask me.
I LOVE LIBREWOLF!!! BUT I AM OPEN TO CHANGE IF ANOTHER NON-CHROMIUM BROWSER SUPERSEEDS IT!!!
The new one looks so much better than that overdetailed crap, I don’t want a painting, I want an easily discernable icon. Also, I can’t believe we’re still doing Firefox so many years after its new logo debuted, especially since Thunderbird just changed their logo. In my opinion, it seems like people are just reiterating the same joke some bloke did without even looking up the why and how. And before you ask, yes I prefer the new Thunderbird logo too, it’s much more discernable.
Firefox gets so much crap for the logo when it’s probably the best minimalist logo there is. People just mistook the more general Firefox “brand” logo with the actual browser logo.
