The Firefox logo isn’t a fox.

The Firefox logo isn’t a fox.

The English word for the red panda is, yes you guessed it, 'Firefox. This is where the browser gets its name from. This means that the Logo is actually a red panda, not a fox. According to NeoSmart Technologies, It looks like a raccoon, eats like a panda, it's related to neither, and is a dark shade of reddish-brown.

The fox hugging the globe in our logo is 100% fox. Firefox IS a nickname for red pandas, though, so they also have our hearts as a mascot.

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The red panda is Mozilla's mascot as they used to have a Firefox Live page where you could watch a few red pandas on camera.

it is actually a red panda. So is the one on the Mozilla Firefox Logo.

Mozilla long ago moved the Firefox icon to a more stylized look, but the newest version is another step away from the original drawing of a fox wrapped around the globe. Even though the fox's face is now in view and its limbs have vanished, it's still easily recognized.

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