Have you heard about Firefox? Well if you have, you might be thinking that their logo is a fox. I mean, it’s in the name, right? Wrong. What you see in the logo is nothing close to a fox.

So What’s In The Logo?

What you see above isn’t a fox. It may look like one, but it isn’t. As a matter of fact, it has nothing to do with a red fox or a brown fox. You would have been closer to the truth had you said it was a racoon or a colourful tiny panda. The English word for the red panda is, yes you guessed it, ‘Firefox. This is where the browser gets its name from. This means that the Logo is actually a red panda, not a fox.

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According to NeoSmart Technologies, It looks like a raccoon, eats like a panda, it’s related to neither, and is a dark shade of reddish-brown. The Americans call it ‘Red Panda,’ the Germans ‘Katzenbär,’ and the Chinese ‘hǔo hú (火狐),’ which translates directly to ‘Fire Fox.’

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

What Is Firefox?

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Browser, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.

So for final clarification, in reality, the creature on the globe is a depiction of a reddish-coloured, long-bodied, tail-endowed, species; and just like the browser, it’s on fire.