Alex Faaborg

One of the major themes in Firefox 3.5’s user interface is a focus on privacy. So far Firefox’s approach to privacy has been essentially all or nothing. Users previously had the ability to easily clear all of the data the browser had stored about them, but this destroyed absolutely everything. Instead of [...]

Rafael Ebron of Mozilla Messaging will be managing the update of the Thunderbird icon. The process will be similar to the recent update of the Firefox icon, and they will be working with the very talented Iconfactory, so that the icons continue to visually reference each other, and feel like they are part of [...]

We are now preparing builds of a third release candidate of Firefox 3.5 which should be available shortly. RC3 is being created to fix a few important issues, but it will also include several small changes to the new Firefox icon.
New 16×16 Version (All Platforms, but primarily Linux and Windows)
Based on the feedback coming [...]

Later this week we will be shipping the first Release Candidate build of Firefox 3.5, which is currently in the process of being evaluated by our exceptional QA team and testing community. This also means that we are now ready to finalize the design of the new Firefox icon.
I want to thank everyone who [...]

Lovely screenshots. I don’t see any Linux ones. Is Mozilla ever going to learn? Don’t you remember the whole visual refresh issue that happened on this very blog?
My apologies for the delay, updating the icon on linux was slightly more involved, partly because we were adding support for additional resolutions, and partly because I had [...]

Here is how iteration 14 of the new Firefox icon would appear in context on mozilla.com, XP, OS X and Vista. I’ll try to get some Linux images posted as soon as we have a patch ready.
The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino at the Iconfactory. The design has been influenced by [...]

Yesterday and today there was a flurry of quick iterations on the new Firefox icon based on all of the feedback we have been receiving. Tomorrow I’ll likely have some in context shots of iteration 14 posted (similar to the images of iteration 10 in context).
The icon is being rendered by Anthony Piraino [...]