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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: 4, Insightful) by b0ru on Wednesday August 01 2018, @07:52PM (6 children)

    by b0ru (6054) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @07:52PM (#715877)
    The project maintainers are working on Basilisk [basilisk-browser.org], and will likely abandon Pale Moon eventually. Whilst I like Pale Moon, I can't say I much like the attitude [github.com] of the people working on the project. The browser choices around at the moment are pretty awful. I sure hope that something else will come along at some point to replace them.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:14PM (#715888)

    I'm hoping otter-browser releases 1.0 soon...

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:42PM (#715901)

    Seems like real nice people! :)

    I've been reading their boards and think the following themes I have seen there are harmful to the Free Software world in general, not just browsers:
    1) Our free software must work out of the box for any user for any situation.
    2) People do banking with our software, we can't put the manpower in for security like the big boys, so we should just give up and do minimal forks of the oligarchs. Continuing our fork would be a disservice to the users.
    3) We will hassle anybody who independently builds our code and tries to share our work, by beating them with a trademark mallet.

    It's like the Bazaar has shifted their stands around and on top of each other to become the new Cathedral. In classical times, we hacked on Linux to get it to run on a new platform, and shared it on our web pages. If Linux were a modern project, we'd be getting a C&D for not calling it Foolix.

    We professionals need to return to being able to build and understand our complex software, even if we don't become rockstar experts. If grandma can't install the geeks' web browser, that's fine. If a website blocks the geeks' web browser because it isn't on a whitelist, no reason for the devs to become active, give the user the ability to control the user agent.

  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:01PM

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:01PM (#715906) Homepage Journal

    Whilst I like Pale Moon, I can't say I much like the attitude [github.com] of the people working on the project.

    I read that. What a curious way of attempting to communicate with someone.

    The project maintainers are working on Basilisk [basilisk-browser.org], and will likely abandon Pale Moon eventually.

    Ugh, I hope not. Why can't people pick a good project and stick with it? They obviously knew people hate Australis. Maybe it's a path of least resistance thing, code wise.

    I'll keep using Pale Moon for as long as I can because I'm yet to find anything else that fits what I want and need.

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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:30PM (1 child)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:30PM (#715944) Journal

    The project maintainers are working on Basilisk [basilisk-browser.org], and will likely abandon Pale Moon eventually.

    Holy crap. How the hell do I know nothing about this? I've been using palemoon under Gentoo for quite some time now. I don't even see anything implying this on the palemoon forum. Total news to me.

    • (Score: 2) by Kell on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:30PM

      by Kell (292) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:30PM (#715967)

      Likewise - this is news to me. And concerning.

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday August 03 2018, @02:34PM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday August 03 2018, @02:34PM (#716721) Journal
    Their attitude has sucked from the beginning. Blacklisting ad-nauseum and even noscript along with their general rude behavior and project direction show that.

    The world needs Firefox. The old Firefox, not this fat, bloated, smelly old trainwreck that's wearing the costume today.
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