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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:42PM
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.