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Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by nefarious_ends » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 4:43 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #54

nefarious_ends wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the sweatshirts are 50% cotton, 50% polyester which is a bit unfortunate.

Not everywhere apparently. T-Shirts and Sweatshirts are 100% organic cotton (in the UK store at least).

ah, you’re right. I was looking at the north american store :3

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by chrismorgan » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #33

chrismorgan wrote: post #21

I pressed the “play animation” button, and the fox disappeared and nothing else happened. If I hadn’t had video autoplay disabled, the fox would just not have been visible in the first place. > Media resource https://assets.mozilla.net/video/kit/pop-up-800.webm could not be decoded, error: Error Code: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) > Details: auto mozilla::MediaChangeMonitor::CreateDecoderAndInit(MediaRawD…

Works fine on the mainline version of FF - nightly and firefox are always fun with multimedia on linux/codecs.

I don’t think I’ve had a video fail to play for at least a year or two.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by slowmovintarget » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #14

Finally! All these years everyone has been complaining about this or that missing feature or lingering bug in Firefox, or how Mozilla has been hostile to users and pulling stupid stunts which only waste money and alienate even their most passionate fans, but by far the number one grievance everyone had was how Firefox was missing a mascot. At last I can make my mother switch to Firefox. I’m messaging all my friends r…

Why is that sarcastic comments like this are always predicated on the idea that its the software engineers doing these marketing activities, and not... you know, a separate marketing team?

Personally, I do want them to increase their installed user base. I'd rather the Mozilla org spend money on marketing Firefox instead of political activism. If this works even a little bit, then great.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by butz » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 8:28 PM UTC

Does anyone remember when Firefox wiped all whimsy animals from their error pages? I still remember.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by fragmede » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 9:45 PM UTC

miroljub wrote: post #47

noir_lord wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed if those graphic designers hadn't been wasting time drawing a cute fox they'd have been waist deep in 15 year old code fixing bugs. Orgs can do multiple things at the same time.

> Orgs can do multiple things at the same time. In principle this is true. In the concrete case of Firefox, they have proven they focus more on side quests than on making a quality browser. I lost any hope they'll go for technical excellence instead of virtue signaling and branding after the Brendan Eich disaster. They feel now like a Microsoft, Google, Apple, or any other big corp. I used Firefox since it was called…

How is that virtue signaling? I thought Brandon didn't get the job?

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by grandpoobah » Fri, Nov 07, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

DoctorOW wrote: post #13

This is only getting hate because people love to hate on Firefox. Firefox having a name and identity for the little guy in their logo is a no-brainer. I put my money where my mouth is, I use Firefox everyday for my regular browsing both on my computer and on Android. It works great. So tired of the FUD.

I use Firefox and I like Firefox, but it feels like they refreshed the logo not all that long ago, and in the time between then and now I can't really think of anything they added to the browser that improved it. I just feel like Firefox is slowly dying, and a fresh coat of paint every few years isn't going to turn things around.