Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge(thurrott.com) |
Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge(thurrott.com) |
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Fi...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Firefox_...
The Edge logo looks like an "e", not a fox hugging a globe.
The new logo looks good in my opinion. It has earth tones, looks like an "e", has some edges.
[1] current: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_11_Logo.svg
[2] old chromium(2009-2011): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_Logo.svg https://codereview.chromium.org/2806029/patch/1/61
The Chromium logo is in bluish tones, and is somewhat ring/donut shapes, and beyond those two (very broad) features there are no further similarities.
See also the Firefox ecosystem logo: http://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/open...
and even more striking, some of the mocks from Mozilla's design docs for future Firefox products https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/11896715/S...
This is where I get with only a mirror and two identical rotations on different identical subgroups on the suprisingly complex chromium svg logo. (This is as far as I get in 5 minutes, but hope it conveys my interpretation). The tripartion of circular segments as most striking similiarity to me.
It’s a little reminiscent of Akamai[1] tbh.
[1]https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akamai_logo.svg
And that's just the browser logo. Let's not get into the Firefox ecosystem logo: http://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/open...
I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS Code, is a free and open source Microsoft product. It's also the product that really enabled me to make the switch in comfort. Maybe soon though I'll be using Bing more too (among others like DDG) if Google decides to completely remove URLs from search result links.
For Windows it always seemed like Netscape worked better into Firefox came along.
I think I do like it. I think it fits what Microsoft is trying to do with their design scheme.
I didn't think of this before, but I don't think I'll ever be able to unsee this now
Beta downloads: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download
I get the best of both worlds. Access to the dev extensions in the Chrome Store as well as Windows pass-through authentication.
It's a decent browser but never again IE. Keep rebranding the browser downloading tool, Microsoft.
That said, these days I am annoyed by "This browser is not supported, use Chrome" messages. Maybe the the history does not repeat but rhymes after all.
Browsers should be made by non-profits like mozilla, in my opinion.
Microsoft has a cool CEO and Bill Gates is just a tad short of an angel these days, however a history of suffering should not be forgotten. What Microsoft did was not benign.
- Binary files are stripped out
- Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out
- The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like OpenSSL"
So Falkon is not like Opera and this new Edge which use almost everything from Chromium, including the app shell, but it's web engine is Chromium.
I have a bunch of icons in my dock and the only two that look similar are browsers. (I hacked up a copy of the Edge logo from the article and slapped it on a applescript to put it in my dock)
