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.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:38PM
success.txt is captive portal detection. Captive portals work by blocking all HTTPS traffic (usually with a certificate error) and intercepting all cleartext HTTP requests to redirect them to the network's login page. Firefox retrieves success.txt from a known non-HSTS origin to distinguish a known good response from a captive portal's intercepted response. Do you still get success.txt hits if you open about:config and turn off network.captive-portal-service.enabled?