Mozilla has released a new beta version of the Web browser, it introduces new Firefox logo. According to the official Twitter, the new icon is in the release version of Firefox Nightly 70 appears.
The latest version of the icon and a far cry from the original, although the fox still surrounds the entire body, but now you can see the fox's face, although there is no facial features, in addition to its feet disappeared. (The figure is with the earlier edition)
According to Mozilla's plan, Firefox Nightly will enter in the next few weeks beta version, and then enter the main version, Tim Murray Mozilla creative director, said the new logo should follow this route. Further, Firefox Nightly flag is a blue and purple color scheme (as above), Common Firefox is still uses a red, orange and yellow solutions (see below).
Mozilla claims that the new version will also be deleted since November 2017 since the release of Firefox 57 (Firefox Quantum), Mozilla Firefox attached to the name "Quantum" label. Quantum marks a major effort to speed up Firefox it to better compete with Google's Chrome. Many quantum program to rebuild some of the Firefox engine, is also gradually extended to more of the type of computer, the project is also known as WebRender (WebRender with language development Rust GPU-based experimental Web content renderer).
Jessie BoniSteel Firefox project manager, said:
Our goal is, WebRender will be the main Firefox browser rendering engine in the coming months, we will continue to promote it to other platforms.
Mozilla believes it can compete with Chrome is "to protect the privacy of users online" function, shielding those sites and advertisements trying to track users, Chrome in this regard lags behind other browsers (such as Safari, Firefox and Brave, etc.).
根据 Mozilla 收集的数据表示，Firefox 的使用正在逐渐减少，如下图（年度活跃用户）：
但是，Firefox 新的跟踪保护的使用正在增加，Mozilla 的产品营销高级主管 Porfirio Landeros 说：
在我们的默认情况下发布了增强跟踪保护之后，我们看到用户保持 ETP 的份额一直在上升。
参考：cnet