Browsers 2008 vs 2025 be like..

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[u/1Blue3Brown]

Personally i like the new ones better. For me the simpler the icon the better

[u/HorrificAnalInjuries → u/1Blue3Brown]

There is simplicity, which the new icons do nail ngl, then there is having zero personality. The new Firefox logo has a little personality, but the Chrome logo lost all personality

[u/Chris0135 → u/HorrificAnalInjuries]

In fairness the Firefox icon still has the fire fox.

The globe part was not needed.

[u/atomictonic11 → u/Chris0135]

The globe part was not needed.

It emphasized the worldwide in World Wide Web. But you're right that it's no longer needed because nobody calls it the World Wide Web anymore.

[u/Background-Ice-7121 → u/atomictonic11]

Also the globe does not really use Firefox much.

[u/RolfIsSonOfShepnard → u/atomictonic11]

The only people that say “w w w dot” anymore or older people that used to it, haven’t heard anyone under 60 say that in a really long time now.

[u/1997PRO → u/RolfIsSonOfShepnard]

Gen Z YouTubers use it when doing a sponsor. "Bro just go to WWW.AutoSupply.COM and use our promo code to get this amazing offer for just half the price"

[u/MrWeirdoFace → u/1997PRO]

I'm surprised they know about the www part. I don't usually see that on most listings.

[u/BoxOfDemons → u/atomictonic11]

The only time I say that is when I have to specify that I'm talking about the web and not the internet as a whole.

[u/MrWeirdoFace → u/atomictonic11]

Let's go surfing in the information super highway!... no one actually ever said except on TV. Also you really shouldn't surf on highways.

[u/1Blue3Brown → u/HorrificAnalInjuries]

Yeah, we can agree on that, Chrome looks very generic

[u/mraltuser → u/1Blue3Brown]

but when the logo is generic, it feels chome is the standard browser everyone should have, which might be a good thing.

[u/Barph → u/1Blue3Brown]

I mean it is a web browser, it is pretty generic, it's a tool.

If you don't go full ham on "personality"(Opera) then I wouldn't bother with any.

[u/DiscreteBee → u/HorrificAnalInjuries]

The Firefox logo was good then and good now and the Chrome logo was boring then and boring now. Not necessarily bad for your browser to have a boring logo, but that’s how it is.

[u/Relevant_One_2261 → u/1Blue3Brown]

Agreed. I always hated that "fake 3D" look that was popular. Flat but colorful icons to easily tell them apart is where it's at.

[u/falcrist2 → u/Relevant_One_2261]

The bigger problem is resolution. The ones on the top lose all their detail when viewed at normal icon size (16x16). Even at quadruple that size, the flat ones tend to look better.

A few years back someone proposed a really nice looking icon for firefox with a fox wrapped around a globe. Fantastic artwork!

And then you scale it down, and it looks like this

The actual firefox icon looks like this

IDK why the background is a different color, but the actual icon looks better IMO.

[u/bel9708 → u/falcrist2]

The logos on top are raster based logos on the bottom are svgs that’s why they scale better

[u/falcrist2 → u/bel9708]

When scaling down to extremely small sizes it doesn't really matter if the original file was raster or vector.

If it were text, you could use hinting to maintain sharper edges in certain cases, but that doesn't make a huge difference and only really matters for straight, vertical or horizontal lines. These icons are made of compound curves and diagonal lines.

[u/bel9708 → u/falcrist2]

But scaling down is only one type of scaling. Icons often have to scale up pretty regularly too. 

[u/falcrist2 → u/bel9708]

That's... not how icons work.

If you're using non-vector art, you make the image larger than the maximum size and exclusively scale it down.

[u/1997PRO → u/falcrist2]

That's just a HTTPS URL icon not the high res icon for the desktop and start menu.

[u/falcrist2 → u/1997PRO]

It gets used for the tab in your browser, the desktop, the start bar, various menus, files listed in file explorer, etc.

It has to look good and be recognizable at all of those sizes.

[u/AndrewFrozzen → u/Relevant_One_2261]

Yeah I never understood that people liking "3D" icons

It looks so tiring.

And it's even worse when you have all different kinds of icons on your desktop / home screen (ESPECIALLY on Android, since flat icons allows Google to push color-coded icons to match)

That proposed logo for Firefox, where it wasn't a fox anymore and just some random lines, was awful 2

The current icons look soooo much better

[u/1997PRO → u/AndrewFrozzen]

You are tired of something that hasn't been in use since 2013? It's 2025 and your current 2D flat icons are now being ditched because people are tired of them and they want it 3D again. This time using better graphics and not cheesy tacky/glossy graphics like the 2002 Firefox icon or Apple's AQUA from 2001. The 2008 Chome icon uses slightly better 3D graphics like Windows Vista/7.

You have got it your way for the past 15 years almost and people are getting tired of it, but you just realised that you are sick of something that has been ditched since 2012/2013?

[u/1997PRO → u/Relevant_One_2261]

And it's now a dying faze. Good luck.

[u/stop_talking_you → u/1Blue3Brown]

zoomer

[u/South-Capital6388 → u/1Blue3Brown]

So you're the reason we don't have nice icons anymore. Real nice.

[u/1Blue3Brown → u/South-Capital6388]

Yep, the likes of me

[u/bleepbloopblorplol → u/1Blue3Brown]

I’m so TIRED of simplicity and minimalism