There was an animated version of this which transitioned from Firefox to Microsoft Edge's logo. One of these had a logo with the fox's tail being replaced by a sphere making it a crunchyroll icon. The memes didn't stop there, and were quite hilarious. While some of the icons are older versions used for the browser, you may have noticed that the last one, i.e., the meme Firefox logo is a slightly altered version of the parent brand's icon. Right, back to the present, here is one of the images that are being circulated on social networks, reddit and meme sites. Speaking of which, Mozilla calls the parent logo, a "fiery marble". While we are on that topic, it might seem like the non-profit organization was kind of going the Google-way, with the colorful icons in that image. This particular icon in question is something that has never been used for any of the Firefox versions or other service. Take a look at this blog article from 2 years ago. That sounds odd, but the important thing here is that this logo isn't for the Firefox browser at all, it was made as an icon for the parent Firefox brand, which includes the browser and all other services/products made by the organization. It almost looked like they reversed the browser's iconic (pun intended) imagery, and just took the fox's face away, so it was kind of like a tail surrounding the globe. The story goes back to 2019, when Mozilla experimented with a new logo. Well, Mozilla finally had enough of this and published an article at its blog to clarify the situation. You may have come across some of these images that tell you "they killed the fox", and the new "Firefox minimalist logo". It would keep the aesthetic but improve usability.Recently, there has been a rise in memes that mock the Firefox logo. Designers really should do the same with the rest of the ui and apply some more color, contrast, and highlights. Interestingly, while most user interfaces have been annoyingly flat and low contrast, many logos like Firefox's use extensive gradients and shadows. Sometimes pages are along the top, sometimes at the bottom. Sometimes the button is in the top left corner, other times the top right, others the bottom left. Today, ios' layouts are horribly inconsistent - sometimes a pen and paper creates a new message, sometimes a plus icon, sometimes a pen. I especially miss Apple's skeuomorphic design, which used to clearly communicate the application's functionality. In fact, flat design's tenancy to eliminate crucial visual cues was even found to increase the time it took for users to find ui triggers by 22% on average: By making everything the same color and size, it's hard to tell the difference between a button, slider, menu, or body of text. Little things, like changing the icon for the settings menu from a wrench, to a column of three lines, to a column of three dots just for the cool factor. Reducing contrast and font size, hiding visual cues, and putting functionality behind cryptic hieroglyphics and sub menus really hurts overall usability. This bandwagon for "ultra modern minimalist" aesthetic is not only less visually appealing, but it also functionally worse. Yourepicfailure wrote:I do not appreciate the return to 4 bit icons & logos.ġ00% agree. But that doesn't make Firefox any less relevant today. If you have time, I'd recommend checking Firefox out! In my experience, it performs a bit better than Chrome, and doesn't have as many privacy concerns as Chrome does.Īlso, of the reason Chrome and Safari are so popular overall is their inclusion with Android and IOS, and their app distribution platforms requiring that all third party browsers use Blink or Webkit respectively. Their work is extremely important and will continue to be relevant for the foreseeable feature. Firefox was one of the first successful browsers to weaken that monopoly, and make the internet as we know it today possible. Microsoft intentionally made Internet Explorer incompatible with standards as part of their "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" campaign to lock out competing browsers and platforms, and monopolize the software and internet industries. Before Firefox, most websites were only designed to work with Internet Explorer. Their presence also serves as pressure for giant tech companies to keep their browsers open, compliant with standards, and powerful. In addition to their significant market share, their work forms the basis of many other projects and applications, and they heavily advocate for and contribute to the free and open internet. That makes it the second most popular desktop browser, and the third most popular browser overall. MrFreeman wrote:with the market share on the decline and currently being under 1%, I can't imagine firefox being around past 2030.Īccording to Starcounter, Firefox has a desktop market share of 9.52%, and 4.44% overall.
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