I recently decided to install and use the Firefox 3.5 release candidates. Now, I won’t go into great detail to describe it, but it’s faster, more standards compliant and advertises the tab bar by default (with a ‘new tab’ button). But, the one thing that caught my eye was the new icon (as shown in Figure 1)
Figure 1: Firefox's new icon
What was wrong with the old one(s)? The new one seems too shiny. Thankfully I can overwrite the icon and replace it with the identifiable classic.
June 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM |
Well, Makoto’s builds that I use still have the Minefield branding, with the sparking fuse on top of the globe.
June 28, 2009 at 5:42 PM |
Thanks to Andrew’s Mozilla Network guide, I got it back to the classic Firefox logo. Though, I should say that Firefox is a lot slower loading pages now. Ehh, I’ll go back to the old icon.
EDIT:That was just my internet connection, actually. Stupid neighbors downloading porn at 5:30 in the afternoon.
August 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM |
I hate it too. My basic problem is usability. They lost too much blue from the globe. Now when I alt-tab to hop between apps, my eye—well trained from years of Firefox usage to recognize the icon—doesn’t identify this orange-and-white thing as Firefox. In those moments, I can feel my synapses shredding apart.