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[–] 260 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 95 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Wow I actually love this idea. There could be some common symbol in the crests to denote what kind of open source license they follow (GNU, MIT, etc), affiliation with other software, all sorts of cool stuff.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    What happens when someone makes a fork of your crest?

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    [–] 227 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

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

    the Firefox logo used in 2017-2019

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (4 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

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    [–] 187 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    I love Firefox's new logo..

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    [–] 125 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 117 points 3 years ago (14 children)
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    [–] 74 points 3 years ago (4 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.

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    [–] 68 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 54 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 49 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago* (3 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.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    Nah, I like the new logo.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years 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.

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  • [+] 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
    [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    i like this newer firefox logo

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years 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.

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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years 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. 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years 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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    [–] 13 points 3 years 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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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    I miss the old firefox logo but new one is still really good in my opinion

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