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[–] whileloop@lemmy.world 212 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the world is going towards simplified logos, gotta at least make yours good. Firefox did that. Can't complain.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wanna go back to medieval crests, where they would throw in symbology for every little detail about the family/guild/whatever. I wanna be able to know everything about a product/app just by looking at its icon.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 191 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

My favorite is the last one. Not the one on the left, but this one:

the Firefox logo used in 2017-2019

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

I am pro the paw.

[–] BattleBeetle@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't get the significance of the purple globe. The orange, yellow, and blue combination looks more vibrant and is just so iconic

[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a growng trnd f ovrsmplfctn.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Global warming?

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[–] perdido@lemmy.eco.br 31 points 1 year ago

Man, I had forgotten how good this one was. The current logo is nice but this was peak Firefox.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

this one was perfection

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[–] WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca 140 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I love Firefox's new logo..

[–] tahoe@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I feel like it’s one of the best current logos. It’s simplified but not oversimplified and it looks really good.

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[–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 98 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] IceMan@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

You are required by law to scale the icon size up to emphasize the detail appropriately.

[–] aport@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Every day we stray further from god

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

To be fair, he's been an absent father for centuries, so it's not our fault.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Installing this as my system icon now brb

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[–] eochaid@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't give two shits about a fucking icon.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

The only correct answer. This thread can be closed.

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] victron@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In that color, that's clearly not the earth anymore

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[–] Odo@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] halvar@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

I think it's neat especially next to the new thunderbird logo. IMHO it still has character and is not oversimplified.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The original Firefox (then called Firebird) logo be like:

[–] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Oh, hence Thunderbird.

…Wait, where are Waterbird and Landbird ? Are they safe ? Are they alright ?

[–] pseudo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's kinda crazy the whole reason we have Firefox is a company was crushed by Microsoft and said "fuck it, shit's open source now."

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[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

Every Firefox logo is a masterpiece. This one is no exception.

[–] Thormjolnir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

2004-2009 were the golden years... Although I'd gladly use it if it had the 2002 logo my reference

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Nah, I like the new logo.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

"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.

[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The new one looks so much better than that overdetailed crap, I don't want a painting, I want an easily discernable icon.

[–] julianh@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] callyral@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

i like this newer firefox logo

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Side by side the old logo looks nicer ... but i guess the simplified logo fits better into most desktop enviroments (out of the box), maybe since most other apps now also seem to use such designs.

[–] Catpuccino@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

I use the developer edition and it has a neat blue variant of the logo.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

The fox got even bigger and burned off all the features from the planet surface

[–] 34@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix, just looked and it has been 20 years.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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