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Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader 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.
Mozilla is the brand for the family of products, and Firefox is the brand for the browser product. Nice and simple. Why overload it and confuse people? This makes no sense at all. Other products should have other brands so you can tell them apart.
Just go to their blog post and read it. As it says, there is no voting they just want feeback in the comments about it.
To me.. marketing types are funny (peculiar, not haha) in that they feel the world and their product revolves around marketing and perception. I think it is somewhat important for a product, but you need a good product first and foremost. It seems that Firefox has been making strides to get get back to where they need to be, although I am not sure they're there yet. I am personally willing to switch back from Pale Moon , but they're going to have to really convince me of it...and new icons aren't going to do it.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
You can want until the end of time, if Firefox is a browser to most people now, it will stay a browser to most people in the future.
#DeleteFacebook
I'm not pissed they threw out XUL. I'm disappointed that the replacement doesn't have as many features. With XUL you could change the UI to a very large degree (remove the toolbars completely and organize the UI however you want), how tabs are organized (like on the sides), (a long time later fixed) preempt loading for ad/scriptblocking, and load local CSS from the disk under an HTTPS page (this is marked as WONTFIX https://github.com/tysonmatani... and breaks Stylus usage when people with disabilities would need it (I don't fall into this category however)). The replacement wasn't up to par as the original; I do know that security wise some of these decisions make sense, but what made Firefox special was removed and not replaced.
Wasting money, time and other resources is something that I think that moz://a excels at. Just look at spectacular failures like Firefox OS, Pocket, Rust, and Persona.