573690 - Replace the red dinosaur favicon with Firefox icon

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Kohei]

Attachment: "m" favicon

Currently www.mozilla.com serves a red dinosaur favicon. While it would be good for www.mozilla.org, it's doesn't fit www.mozilla.com or Firefox branding.

There are no red dinosaur images on w.m.c except the About pages. A gray dinosaur on the footer is hard to spot. It's also difficult to identify w.m.c when users have bookmarked the site.

Proposed change:
A. use a Firefox icon site-wide; or
B. use a Firefox icon for /firefox/ and its sub directories and a generic icon (see attached for example) for the other part of the site.

See also:
www.mozillamessaging.com have already used a Thunderbird icon site-wide.
www.google.com/chrome uses a Chrome icon.

Comment 1

[Kohei]

Attachment: firefox favicon

Here's a Firefox favicon used on mozilla.jp/firefox which is converted from the transparent PNG image.

Comment 2

[Kohei]

Firefox 4 'nova' redesign replaces Mozilla with Firefox branding.
So the favicon should be the Firefox icon.

Comment 3

[Kohei]

Comment on attachment 453004 [details]
firefox favicon

This icon seems obsolete. The new one is
http://www.getpersonas.com/static/img/favicon.png

Comment 4

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Firefox 4 'nova' redesign replaces Mozilla with Firefox branding.
> So the favicon should be the Firefox icon.

+1 for this

Comment 5

[Kohei]

As you know, favicons are cashed for long. It can't be overridden even with super reload (Ctrl+Shift+R). Thus it'd be good to replace it *now*.

Comment 6

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Done in the nova branch in r76451.

Comment 7

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

qa-verified-trunk http://nova.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/

Comment 8

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

verified fixed http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/