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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, Interesting) by Arik on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:33PM (2 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:33PM (#715923) Journal
    "My opinion? Dig up Netscape Navigator 3.0 and use that to bring back a proper browser look and feel."

    Why not Firefox 3.x? Nutscrape always had a horrid UI, one of the reason we all flocked to Firefox when it became available. The major retardation started around version 4 IIRC.

    Funny how the same thing happened with Opera. It was arguably the best browser available at the time, even with Firefox for competition, back at version 3.62. But it squandered the advantage with version 4 and slowly became a footnote. Roughly two years later, Firefox hit version 4 and started doing the same darn thing.

    It seems like there might be a pattern here. Software projects often start going off the rails at about version 4.
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:25PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:25PM (#715942) Journal

    It seems like there might be a pattern here. Software projects often start going off the rails at about version 4.

    GNOME already went off the rails with version 3.

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    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:34PM

      by Arik (4543) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @11:34PM (#715969) Journal
      GNOME went off the rails with version 2 if you ask me.

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