If the world is going towards simplified logos, gotta at least make yours good. Firefox did that. Can’t complain.
I couldn’t give two shits about a fucking icon.
Wow. I’m surprised at the dislike for the old detailed icon. Maybe it’s being old enough to remember black and white icons, but I miss the increasing amount of colors that icons had for a while there. I hate the trend toward monocolor silhouettes.
BACK IN MY DAY WE DIDN’T HAVE GUIS OR COMPUTERIZED RODENTS
The original Firefox (originally called Firebird) logo be like:
Oh, hence Thunderbird.
…Wait, where are Waterbird and Landbird ? Are they safe ? Are they alright ?
Originally called Phoenix, since it was Netscape Navigator, reborn.
But Phoenix Technologies disliked that, so they renamed to a descriptive name for the same immortal bird – Firebird.
The Firebird database people would have none of that, so after a few-months gap between 0.x releases, they found the closest thing they possibly could which was not trademarked. It had nothing to do with the original name idea, fire being a weak link.
And we’ve been stuck with that stupid name for two decades.
“What happened to me? People care more about polished functionality than their privacy, and are willing to trade privacy for something that steals all their data as long as it is “faster,” even though I’m arguably faster than Chrome at this point…”
Most regular ass people don’t give one flying fuck about being owned by corporations, they’re happy to get reamed by companies that don’t give a shit if they live or die.
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2004-2009 were the golden years… Although I’d gladly use it if it had the 2002 logo my reference
I have no memory of the 2002 one and I swapped over from Netscape which is weird… I have a vague memory of their thunderbird logo looking similar at one point but maybe I’m getting them mixed up
what happened to you
Near fifteen years, bræh.
Wait another fifteen.
Side by side the old logo looks nicer … but i guess the simplified logo fits better into most desktop enviroments (out of the box), maybe since most other apps now also seem to use such designs.
The new one looks so much better than that overdetailed crap, I don’t want a painting, I want an easily discernable icon. Also, I can’t believe we’re still doing Firefox so many years after its new logo debuted, especially since Thunderbird just changed their logo. In my opinion, it seems like people are just reiterating the same joke some bloke did without even looking up the why and how. And before you ask, yes I prefer the new Thunderbird logo too, it’s much more discernable.
