{"id":228,"date":"2006-07-26T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T06:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/228"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:29:30","slug":"what-the-fire-fox-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/what-the-fire-fox-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Firefox… Panda?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Firefox<\/a><\/p>\n

Firefox. You must have heard of it by now, you know, that really \u2018cool\u2019 browser that sees itself taking over the world of internet surfing in 5 to 10 years. Yes, that\u2019s the one.<\/p>\n

If I were to ask \u2018What\u2019s their logo<\/em>?,\u2019 of an average Firefox user, the answer you\u2019d expect (and can safely bet your money on) would be “A red fox around a globe<\/em>” except, of course, for the fact that isn\u2019t. Well, yes, that is <\/em>a globe, but that logo has never actually featured a red fox!<\/em><\/p>\n

What you see above isn\u2019t a fox. Sure, it may look like one, but it isn\u2019t. As a matter of fact, it has nothing to do with a red fox or a brown fox, and if you had said \u2018red raccoon\u2019 or \u2018tiny and very-colorful panda\u2019 you would have been a lot closer to the truth.<\/p>\n

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\"Red<\/a>Firefox\u2019s official name-and-logo sake is the \u2018Red Panda.\u2019 It looks like a raccoon, eats like a panda, it\u2019s related to neither, and is a dark shade of reddish-brown. The Americans call it ‘Red Panda,’ the Germans \u2018Katzenb\u00e4r,\u2019 and the Chinese \u2018h\u01d4o h\u00fa (\u706b\u72d0),\u2019 which translates directly to \u2018Fire Fox.\u2019<\/p>\n

This<\/em> is the creature depicted in Firefox\u2019s logo. When Firefox 0.8 came along (bare months after the name change from Firebird to Firefox), Firefox had a new logo. Jon Hicks is the renowned author of the Firefox logo today, and his logo was designed to look<\/em> like the literal name of the software (a fox on fire), yet not deviate too much from\u00a0the original Red Panda namesake.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/p>\n

Arguably, the animal on the globe is<\/em> a fox, and as such the answer to the question posed earlier up really is a fox, but at this point, it\u2019s just semantics. In reality, the creature on the globe is a depiction of\u00a0a reddish-colored, long-bodied, tail-endowed, species; and just like the browser, it\u2019s on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firefox. You must have heard of it by now, you know, that really \u2018cool\u2019 browser that sees itself taking over the world of internet surfing in 5 to 10 years. Yes, that\u2019s the one. If I were to ask \u2018What\u2019s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[873,60,126,784,872,874],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-animals","tag-firefox","tag-katzenbar","tag-logo","tag-red-panda","tag-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t