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Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)
- turtleyacht 9mo agoIs it coming for the branch or the fox? Something we haven't observed yet are hyperlinks automatically created from a web of documents. This is usually a manual process: which word or words to select, and which specific URL to go to.
- firefax 9mo agoShould have made the bird an anthropomorphized version of the Firebird phoenix IMO (For the younger hackers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mozilla_Phoenix_logo_vector.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mozilla_Phoenix_logo_vect...)
- nonsenseinc 9mo agoThe cute fox could have been a cute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda, which the "Firefox" is referencing afaik.
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- avian 9mo agoIs it though? To me the animal on logos used by Firefox [1] always looked more similar to a red fox [2] than a red panda. Note pointy nose with the bottom colored white. Even the latest logo that shows more of the side of the face lacks the kind of patterns distinctive of the red panda. The -fire part of the name seemed to be represented by the flaming tail, not the animal itself. [1] https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Firefox-Logo-History-700x651.jpg https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Firefox-L... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
- nonsenseinc 9mo agoYes, especially the first Firefox logo has a distinct snout. I have no primary source to quote, but there are plenty claims, referencing each other, that the name stems from the nickname of the red panda. I was wondering if there is any official statement about the name. But it seems most common to think of a (speedy?) fox with a flaming tail. How to derive a dog's burning relative from a phoenix seems to remain uncertain.
- nephihaha 9mo agoWell, red pandas are more likely to live up trees than foxes are.
- reactordev 9mo agoThis is awesome but it cuts off what’s underneath. Show the “full image” with a pond of Google and Microsoft crocodiles. Because that’s what’s really going to happen. Mozilla’s little fox is going to get eaten alive.
- xnx 9mo agoThere are a lot of reasons to not like Mozilla, but it's crazy to be against them for AI. A browser is literally a user agent. What well-funded org should be entrusted with making an open source agent for the user instead?
- therouwboat 9mo ago"A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen."
- matusp 9mo agoThe AI hate is unreasonably strong right now. People are acting like adding one feature they don't like or need to a browser is a borderline critical offense because it is an AI feature. I find it shocking how quickly the public in the US/EU developed this sort of hate towards one of the most interesting technology of the last decades.
- skydhash 9mo agoLet's say you went to a library to find a book for a thesis. But instead the librarian instead on spinning tales and waste your time. It's fun when in a comedy show, but not so fun when you want to get something done. LLM technology is nice, but not everyone wants an hallucination machine, especially on their own computer. It would be another matter if Mozilla, Google, or Microsoft were offering free laptops.
- beej71 9mo agoIt is interesting, but that's not the feature that people hate. They hate the monitoring, the power consumption, the inaccuracy, and the social and intellectual stupification. I use LLMs quite frequently, but there are some places I do not want them. "Use AI to chat with your PDF!" The only thing I'd want to have it remotely touch in my browser is translations.
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- baud147258 9mo agowhy did you link that instead of the original source (https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-12-18_Shhhrrrr-Shrrr-Shrrrr_by-David-Revoy.html https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-12-18_Shhh...) , since it's already linked in the page?
- yorwba 9mo agoDavid Revoy is the artist who made the painting, this is his blog. The "source" link is to be understood in the sense of open source. Unlike most artists, he shares the raw editor files he worked on, not just the final image. So you can learn something about his creative process if you want to.
- schmorptron 9mo agoI actually feel like these integrations are fine, as long as they are opt-in or easily opt-outable of permanently. For now, I don't see the harm in adding another default search engine, it's much less obstrusive than the home page sponsored links. And if it gets them a little more independent from google by siphoning perplexity's seemingly infinite vc investment money, so be it.
- drmajormccheese 9mo ago2%. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
- irilesscent 9mo agoSee also: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2024-09-18_mozilla-leadership_by-David-Revoy.html https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2024-09-18_mozi... , https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-02-27_How-my-Firefox-became-a-LibreWolf_by-David-Revoy.html https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-02-27_How-...
- vachina 9mo agoThere’s no money to be made in writing privacy respecting web browsers lol. Give Mozilla a break.
- hoppyhoppy2 9mo agoHN is for sharing memes now?
- honeycrispy 9mo agoPleading in essays hasn't gotten the point across.
- preommr 9mo agoIt's not exactly a template-meme, or whatever low-effort memes are called now (the ragefaces, the reaction gifs, the deep-fried slop). I think something like xkcd comics or something similar has always been received well by the community. Given that it's a high-effort piece of content as a digital painting, I think it should be ok - or at least not treated like it's in the same bucket as memes.