Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech

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• infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But why? I loved this logo, it’s very clever:

  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Mozilla_logo.svg/2560px-Mozilla_logo.svg.png

  Or most people didn’t get the meaning of ://?

  Now, as I typed this I understand… Most people rarely type https:// any more. Actually I use this symbol most frequently connecting to file shares as smb:// or sftp://.

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indeed. Mozilla is just another ad company now.

  1. Abandoned Firefox long time ago.
  2. Broke promises of open sourcing Pocket.
  3. Keep hiring useless venture capital CEOs and keep increasing their pay, while firing workers at the same time.
     • 2020 - 2,689,800
     • 2021 - 5,591,406
     • 2022 - 6,903,089
  4. Disbanded advocacy division.
  5. Went all in on AI.
  6. Bought an ad company.

  Mozilla as you knew it as dead. Firefox carcass will remain, and various forks are keeping it alive, but if someone still wants to have an alternative to Google’s Chromium/Blink it needs a new entity to take over.

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m watching ladybird with interest. But it’s going to be sometime before it’s ready. Current versions break quite easily. But it’s good to see something else being developed at least

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    • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe they can catch the interest of ex-firefox developers, their expertise and should help a lot.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They just stopped developing it. They haven’t added anything useful to Firefox in a long time. Furthermore, they are also ignoring popular new open standard support, which is critical in their supposed mission of building a better open and accessible internet to all. And they’re also removing a lot of long-standing features like RSS support for no good reason.

      And it’s reflected in the numbers. They went from 206M active clients in 2020 to 163M in 2024. And considering market share it’s even more catastrophic. They used to have ~30% of the market share at their peak in 2010 now it’s down to 2% today.

      What they did lately is various side projects like a VPN, email masking service or data breach notification service. Would be cool projects on its own, but when they are coming at the cost of Firefox nobody gives a shit. And in the last few years, all their focus is on AI, which literally no Firefox user asked for.

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  • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was just my imagination that it’s been getting worse and worse in both implementation and ecosystem.

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• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I see a ton of branding, buzzwords, and even a little AI.
  Changing your logo isn’t gonna do shit. You still use Google.

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    • The flag symbol highlights our activist spirit, signifying…
    • The bespoke wordmark is born of its semi-slab innovative typeface with…
    • The colors start with black and white — a no-nonsense, sturdy base, with a wider green palette that is…
    • This WHOLE THING speaks to our corporate-culture, delusion and complete lack of prioritization as Mozilla has allowed too many idiots to infiltrate the organization and…

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And to top it off, let’s be honest, the logo is an eyesore!

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We teamed up with global branding powerhouse

  Oh, that’s how you know it’s not going to be capitalist slime. This logo rebranding one of the worst visual changes a company like Mozilla can make. We truly are in trying times…

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• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally some international ß representation.

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