Firefox

History
In 2002, a company called "Phoenix" was founded. This company would years later become what we call today "Mozilla Firefox". The brand struggled to settle on a name, as they figured out, the name "Phoenix" was already taken. They decided to go with "Firebird" but it was taken as well. This is the reason why their first logo, which lasted from 2002 to 2004, resembled a phoenix. In 2004 they finally settled under the name: "Mozilla Firefox", which inspired their current logos.

Goals
The red panda embracing the blue world is important. It radiates saturated colours that give users a dynamic feeling. This contributes to the designer's goals of making a logo that shows how their operating system is fast, reliable and worldwide.

Minimalist Controversy
On February 2021, twitter user @very_real_Luigi posted a meme falsely acusing Mozilla Firefox of over-simplifying their logo. What happened in fact was that Firefox's parent logo was changing their logo to a simple orange and blue swirl. The browser's logo continued to be a red panda embracing a blue globe, just with a different color scheme.

Fun Facts
Firefox's mascot is actually a red panda.

Firefox is used by about 20% of all internet users.