Microsoft intentionally made Internet Explorer incompatible with standards as part of their 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' campaign to lock out competing browsers and platforms, and monopolize the software and internet industries. Before Firefox, most websites were only designed to work with Internet Explorer. Their presence also serves as pressure for giant tech companies to keep their browsers open, compliant with standards, and powerful. In addition to their significant market share, their work forms the basis of many other projects and applications, and they heavily advocate for and contribute to the free and open internet. That makes it the second most popular desktop browser, and the third most popular browser overall. Mozilla plans to start offering subscriptions in October.MrFreeman wrote:with the market share on the decline and currently being under 1%, I can't imagine firefox being around past 2030.Īccording to Starcounter, Firefox has a desktop market share of 9.52%, and 4.44% overall. Users will get access to “premium” features like a VPN service or cloud storage via this new service.

The new logo of Firefox is looking very attractive and friendly.įurthermore, Mozilla is also working to offer a subscription service inside of Firefox. The new logo is consist of colorful gradients of orange, yellow, pink, blue, and purple. Recoloring that logo or dissecting the fox could only take us so far. The “fast fox with a flaming tail doesn’t offer enough design tools to represent the entire product family. The new branded logo comes with a new typeface, minimalist shapes, and a recognizable color paletteĪ blog post from last year has highlighted that: The orange fox stretched around a blue globe has been replaced with a sleek circular hue. The brand-new logo for Mozilla’s whole family of Firefox products looks a little like a world on fire.

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