History of the Firefox logo
Firefox, from Mozilla foundation has been one of the best web browsers from quite a good time and is a lot better than internet explorer. I just thought to search and find things about and related to its cool looking logo. And here is what all i could tell you about it.
There were 2 stories sighted out about the history of this logo actually.
1. In October 2003, professional interface designer, Steven Garrity presented an article in which he tried to mention things that were not upto the marks of Mozilla’s visual identity. Later Garrity was invited by the Mozilla Foundation to head up the new visual identity team. New branding efforts were seen when the 0.8 version of firefox was released in February 2008. So, the animal featured in the logo was a fox, instead of a Red panda, which is the meaning of firefox actually.
2. Recently, an article featured in Wired showed that photographs in space taken by the Hubble Space telescope showed something really similar to the logo which firefox is using. December 17, 2002 was the date when the photographs were taken. An entry page in Wikipedia about V838 Monocerotis showed the same star again of the same structure.
Now its really confusing and hard to say which might be the original story behind the logo. But anyways, the logo just rocks 
April 16th, 2008 at 3:05 am
for a moment there I over read the rock part and thought you said the logo sucked … and I am thinking what the heck… Then I reread that sentence and saw that you said the logo rocks…. I should head to sleep now.
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April 16th, 2008 at 4:27 am
WOw, the left side images looks like there is a fish there.
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April 16th, 2008 at 5:24 am
The pics are looking amazing .. cool ones …
Firefox and its logo really Rocks … i do not prefer IE much
April 16th, 2008 at 6:39 am
These are some cool theories on the firefox logo.
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April 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Haha my last blog post was about the Wired image, it looks so cool!
FF logo > IE Logo
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April 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
That’s pretty cool. Maybe Steven saw the Hubble picture and then sketched the one in the first section later on. I guess I’d never really thought about its origination.
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April 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
The photo was recently taken though, so i think the logo came first!
The hubble picture could acutually be an alien fetus =OO
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April 19th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Wow, the logo history is pretty cool Chetan! I really enjoyed reading this today… cause kind of know now what the logo was all about.
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April 20th, 2008 at 3:56 am
never knew about it.
Interesting
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April 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I’ve wanted to read this post for a while and have just got round to it, very interesting article and wich ever story works its always ncie to have a conspiracy theory to create interest.
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