Maybe many of you readers admire Firefox. Mozilla browser is very powerful in helping every activity and activities related to the virtual world. Its functionality can be expanded with the addition of various add-ons, themes, plugins and scripts. Looks like you know a lot about this browser, but wait a minute. Did you know that Firefox has several mascots?
Below will be explained one by one about the current Firefox mascots starting from the name, date they were made, people who designed, intentions and purpose of making and others. The official mascot is currently only four, but in the future it is likely to continue to grow. And someday it won't be impossible for there to be a Firefox mascot from Indonesia
Is mascot important? Do not underestimate its presence, because the creation of this mascot carries a certain mission that is quite important, one of which is like being an ambassador to market and socialize the use of Firefox in a country. Her cute and adorable appearance is not only liked by children but also adults so Firefox fever can continue to spread all over the world.
1 . KIT
This pitiful mascot is designed by Sean Martell based on the idea of Chris Beard in 2006 and was first introduced to audiences by the name of Renardo at a conference of Firefox developers located in Mountain View, California. Its appearance became very popular at the SXSW Interactive conference (creative industry festival in the city of Texas) in 2007 and aired on DL.TV. Because the mascot looks like a very small fox, it is named Kit (baby fox).
Making this mascot is the desire or invitation from the developers at the Mozilla Developer Center to build the web using open standards and open source technology. With so freedom to spread intellectual knowledge / intellectuals can continue to be done, and also the ideas and creativity are not restrained by the owners of closed standards.
Kit's face is designed in such a way that makes many people see it feeling sorry for the mascot and it seems that the maker wants this campaign not to be seen as something that is compelling or attacking but rather a sincere invitation and touching the hearts of many people so softly that they want to support the campaign.
2. FOXKEH
This mascot was born in September 2006 from the hands of the Japanese Mozilla team and as we know Japan is famous for its funny and unique cartoon character design, as well as with Foxkeh. Firefox mascot this one appeared very adorable and its presence is quite popular among users of Firefox browser is not limited in Japan only.
Foxkeh name (pusatuke) is the result of donating more than 7000 members of the Firefox user community in Japan. The name Foxkeh (pronounced Fokusuke) comes from a combination of FIREFOX and SUKE (common ending names for boys in Japan).
Since it first appeared FoxKeh has helped spread Firefox, with its appearance in Vox Banner Contest, a poster that explains the history of Firefox, a monthly wallpaper complete with Foxkeh dates and images in various actions, Firefox promotional video series and much more.
Initially all Foxkeh trinkets appeared in Japanese writing and were displayed on the site http://foxkeh.jp/ , but with the many requests from outside Japan finally made a blog located at http://www.foxkeh.com/ which in English language.
Foxkeh form you can get in the form of themes (Foxkeh Theme) for Firefox. The display will look like the image below. The theme with the dominant colors of orange and yellow is very pretty and interesting, you can see Foxkeh animation is running every time in the top right corner and the cute Foxkeh head is circling in the tab every time visiting the site. I think this is one of the best themes that are worthy of your collection.
Want to see Foxkeh dancing? Here is the place: http://foxkehdance.com/
The page that contains a lot of Foxkeh emoticons being danced was made by Alex Polvi. Mozillian this one previously famous for making the symbol of Firefox in the field of corn and robot images in Firefox 3. Now he is not working anymore in Mozilla and as his last contribution made Foxkeh Dance.
3. G-FOX
In June 2008 the Mou-Zhi Network (Mozilla's branch office in China) through its CEO, Gong-Li introduced the Firefox mascot named G-Fox. And just like his brothers from America and Japan, Kit and Foxkeh, his presence aims to make the use of Firefox campaign more fun and more acceptable especially for the Chinese population.
For the Firefox user community the G letter of the G-fox mascot has many positive meanings, such as "good, great, guide, gateway, gravity, grace, gorgeous," and other expressions you can perceive yourself.
G-Fox has a large eyeball, indicating that this mascot is very careful, just like the Firefox browser as the eyes of the computer to search and other activities to help people get to know the world more clearly. Then the long ear shape and stand upright allows him to capture the sounds of small frequency, and in accordance with the Firefox browser as an open source application so that many people who can contribute. Characteristics of the Chinese nation is derived from the shape of the curvature (Choi Wan) on the tail, which becomes the decorator as well as the perfect form.
Through the official website you can get various G-Fox trinkets that you can download right away, like 4 wallpapers in various sizes, G-Fox images with sports themes, banners and the last one is the G-Fox theme that is compatible with Firefox version 3.
4. FOXMOSA
From the Mozilla community in Taiwan was born the fourth Firefox mascot named Foxmosa. It's been a few years ago that this funny mascot helped with various Firefox promotional activities, such as promoting Firefox version 2, Downloading Day and Firefox 3 party for users in Taiwan. But only this time the news published on the official website of Mozilla after receiving detailed information about Foxmosa from one member of the Mozilla community of Taiwan, namely Handsome Puppy. So now Foxmosa has come out of his cage and started joining his other brothers.
What makes the look of Foxmosa as we see it today is Tatit. A Taiwanese illustrator who likes Firefox. The name Foxmosa comes from the writings of China, Formosa (read Fu Er Mo Sha).
Below is one of the photos from Foxmosa Tour in Taiwan, this unique activity is still part of Firefox 3 party where volunteers tour the island of Taiwan, then take some photos of the environment, buildings and attractions by carrying a star-shaped balloon and of course there are pictures Foxmosa there.
4. HISTORY OF FIREFOX LOGO
The four mascots above and also the Firefox logo that you often see have in common, namely making them inspired by the form of one carnivorous animal. Then how the story originally so that the logo shaped a red fox with a flaming tail is embracing the planet earth can be created?
It all begins with the desire of the Mozilla foundation to design a future for the Mozilla brand and its visual identity. Due to the breadth of the scope of projects that Mozilla undertakes, it creates confusion about the use of Mozilla names / brands that are described by users as a web browser application, application package, platform and overall collection of application projects with no obvious restrictions.
For that in 2003 started from Mozilla Suite version 2.0, which is an application package consisting of 4 desktop applications, each has been given a name and logo. One of them is a web browser named Mozilla Firebird. But the name did not last long and finally by Ben Goodger was changed to Mozilla Firefox.
Then in 2004 the Mozilla Visual Identity Team was formed led by Steven Garrity. The team is tasked with improving the quality and consistency of visual elements (icons / logos, basic themes, etc.) of Mozilla products. Jon Hicks in charge of making illustrations of the Firefox logo was initially a bit of a difficulty with the Firefox concept. Finally inspired by the Japanese painting of a fox, it finally appears that the image looks more like a cute red panda.
In the end, the chosen design was the concept of Daniel Burka and the sketch by Stephen Desroches. And redesigned by Hicks using the Fireworks MX and Photoshop applications for creating icons. And it was first used for the Firefox browser version 0.8.
This Firefox logo concept finally became the basic concept for Mozilla Thunderbird Camino, and many other Mozilla products.