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Mozilla is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Opinion

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the change dept.

JesusAmieiro writes:

Mozilla is rebranding Firefox. The company is asking for feedback on the new look, which will try to cover the various Firefox offerings. For most people, Firefox refers to a browser, but the company wants the brand to encompass all the various apps and services that the Firefox family of internet products cover, “from easy screenshotting and file sharing to innovative ways to access the internet using voice and virtual reality.” The fox with a flaming tail “doesn’t offer enough design tools to represent this entire product family,” Mozilla believes. Instead of recoloring the logo and dissecting the fox, the company wants to start from scratch. That said, the name “Firefox” is staying, so Mozilla doesn’t have that much wiggle room.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:38PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:38PM (#715780)

    Have you used Firefox since release 57 or so last year? The performance is now within 50% of Chrome in almost all cases, even in others, and ahead by a significant amount in a few. Just put Chrome and Firefox side by side and run the benchmarks at browserbench.org to test it our yourself.

    Because raw speed isn't the only fucking thing that matters. My Ferrari has bald tires, the doors are falling off, the aux jack doesn't work, and it makes a high-pitched whining sound whenever I drive it over 40mph, BUT AT LEAST IT'S FAST!!!!!111!!

    The reasons for the changes in the extension APIs are publicly documented and reasonable.

    Yes, the reason (i.e. security) was reasonable, but when the extension system is the main reason people use your browser, and then you throw out the extension system, you have no right to be shocked that your users leave.* That the extension system wasn't the best security-wise is what made it good, because you could use it to do many strange and wondrous things you can't do with the secure Chrome version.

    *plus the constant fucking with the interface, tracking, and everything else bad about Chrome, which they did their best to copy to a T

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