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I'll get voted down, but I hate that cute AI fox, and hope I never see it again.





Agree, but this is bike shedding, like there’s so much more to worry about for these fellas!

I wish we could stop with the animal "furry" mascots for projects.

It was cute when the internet was cute but now it's just boring.


Haha, used gpt4o to generate it. What change do you want to see in that fox appearance? Any change should be a prompt away :)

Why a fox? The browser is based on Chrome. Firefox basically owns having a fox as a mascot in the browser space. Why not pick something original? The fox confusing at best, but some may say misleading. Same goes for the name.

Thanks for the feedback. Honestly—we just reused the icon we had gotten professionally designed for the last idea we were working on (https://felafax.ai/).

But not gonna lie, as a tiny startup, we don’t have marketing budget of Perplexity or Dia, so we picked a name and icon that at least hinted at “browser” right away. Definitely not trying to mislead anyone -- just needed something recognizable out of the gate.


You stated in the parent comment that you used GPT4o to generate it, but now you're saying you had a professionally made icon? I don't understand.

It doesn’t look like you reused that icon. It looks like you generated a new one with AI. So it could have been any animal (or not even an animal at all).

For starters, it shouldn't be using a fox. You know why.

The text is very off-center and the AI "vibe" is palpable. Hire a designer or at least take the time to add the text to a free SVG yourself.

It makes me question your honesty. If you want a fox logo then build it as a Firefox fork. If you do that I will trust you again.



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