It screams “impending doom” to me.
Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
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Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
#72Firefox Developer Edition logo for comparison: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Fi...
Maybe I’ve seen too much games/anime, but that evokes the image of a defeated/burned out fire beast plummeting to the ground..
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#73The further they can move away from the legacy of Internet Explorer, the better.
I only remember IE fondly from my early days of using it on OSX and Classic MacOS.
For Windows it always seemed like Netscape worked better into Firefox came along.
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#74As far as analogies go, I think it's closest to the chromium logo [1], when kinematically interpreted as some sort of extruding shell segments [2], or blades of an aperture ( Aperture Science ). Overall it's visual language elements are surely intentionally aligned well centered in a space between IE ℮, Chrome and Firefox . [1] current: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_11_Logo.svg [2] old chromium(200…
The Chromium logo is angular and defined, whereas Firefox/Edge both represent fluid waves sweeping circularly.
The Chromium logo is in bluish tones, and is somewhat ring/donut shapes, and beyond those two (very broad) features there are no further similarities.
See also the Firefox ecosystem logo: http://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/open...
and even more striking, some of the mocks from Mozilla's design docs for future Firefox products https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/11896715/S...
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Higher res link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Firefox_...
While the SVG will scale to any size, Chrome has it very small on my screen and even zooming to 500% (max zoom) is smaller than the linked png.
It's because the scale is small. The size is set to 80x80 pixels, presumably for icon exporting. However there's nothing stopping someone from opening it inkscape and exporting a PNG at 12000 DPI (which results in a 10k x 10k raster resolution). I don't think the logo scale should be so small and I don't think browser should have such limited zoom capability. I place the most blame on the browsers though.
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#76Firefox Nightly, I'd say:
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1160831232357351425/dlf...
Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
#77I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…
Falkon is the KDE browser which is WebKit-based and not Google. It works on at least Linux and Windows. I believe the GNOME browser (Epiphany?) is also WebKit-based.
GNOME Web (aka Epiphany)¹ does use WebKitGTK², but Falkon³ uses QtWebEngine⁴, which is based on Chromium. Qt integrates "the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick" and
does "not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:
- Binary files are stripped out
- Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out
- The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like OpenSSL"
So Falkon is not like Opera and this new Edge which use almost everything from Chromium, including the app shell, but it's web engine is Chromium.
Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge
#78As far as analogies go, I think it's closest to the chromium logo [1], when kinematically interpreted as some sort of extruding shell segments [2], or blades of an aperture ( Aperture Science ). Overall it's visual language elements are surely intentionally aligned well centered in a space between IE ℮, Chrome and Firefox . [1] current: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_11_Logo.svg [2] old chromium(200…
The Chromium logo is angular and defined, whereas Firefox/Edge both represent fluid waves sweeping circularly. The Chromium logo is in bluish tones, and is somewhat ring/donut shapes, and beyond those two (very broad) features there are no further similarities. See also the Firefox ecosystem logo: http://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/open... and even more striking, some of the mocks from Mozilla's…
There are surely multiple ways to describe similarities.
The destinction between chrome and edge is not so hard to me, if seen in contrast between geometric and organic shapes. Firefox and even the mocks (since when do mockups even count, they are explorative for a reason) are way more on the organic side, while besides the last green slob, the edge logo is in strictly geometric territory. As I said there are similiarities, but then one should also bring up a mirrored Ubisoft logo, or various other Spiral/Nautilus inspired ones.
This is where I get with only a mirror and two identical rotations on different identical subgroups on the suprisingly complex chromium svg logo. (This is as far as I get in 5 minutes, but hope it conveys my interpretation). The tripartion of circular segments as most striking similiarity to me.
