{"id":5482,"date":"2018-01-14T22:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T22:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2023-07-12T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:00:28","slug":"why-the-new-firefox-logo-looks-wrong-yet-oddly-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/technology\/why-the-new-firefox-logo-looks-wrong-yet-oddly-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the new Firefox logo looks wrong, yet oddly familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in November Mozilla released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/57.0\/releasenotes\/\">Firefox 57,<\/a> aka &#8220;Quantum.&#8221; It was the first major change to Firefox in many years with a new look, new extension system, and significantly faster performance. While it did break some of my favorite extensions this was a temporary problem, and despite a few bumps the upgrade was ultimately a huge win in my book. Finally, Firefox became as performant as Chrome while retaining most of its customization options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was another change though that didn&#8217;t seem quite right &#8212; the logo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure the new logo isn&#8217;t that different than the old one. It&#8217;s just a few visual tweaks here and there, and the colors were modified slightly. No big deal, right? Shouldn&#8217;t be, but something looked off and I couldn&#8217;t quite put my finger on what bugged me about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in a moment of realization I figured it out: the new Firefox logo bears a stunning resemblance to Trump&#8217;s infamously bad hairstyle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-trump-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5483\" title=\"Firefox vs. Trump\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-trump-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-trump-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-trump.jpg 1318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately once I saw this I couldn&#8217;t unsee it. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in November Mozilla released Firefox 57, aka &#8220;Quantum.&#8221; It was the first major change to Firefox in many years with a new look, new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Why the new Firefox logo looks wrong, yet oddly familiar - MrEricSir.com","description":"Back in November Mozilla released Firefox 57, aka \"Quantum.\" It was the first major change to Firefox in many years with a new look, new extension system, and s"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1238,1239,1237,1145,1052,1236,272],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-make-firefox-great-again","tag-mozilla","tag-politics","tag-software","tag-trump","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}