Wow. I'm surprised at the dislike for the old detailed icon. Maybe it's being old enough to remember black and white icons, but I miss the increasing amount of colors that icons had for a while there. I hate the trend toward monocolor silhouettes.
"What happened to me? People care more about polished functionality than their privacy, and are willing to trade privacy for something that steals all their data as long as it is "faster," even though I'm arguably faster than Chrome at this point..."
Most regular ass people don't give one flying fuck about being owned by corporations, they're happy to get reamed by companies that don't give a shit if they live or die.
Side by side the old logo looks nicer ... but i guess the simplified logo fits better into most desktop enviroments (out of the box), maybe since most other apps now also seem to use such designs.
I'm sure quite a few people can agree that we do not like the oversimplifying of logos. I know I sure as hell don't. The old logo was so much better looking if you ask me.
The new one looks so much better than that overdetailed crap, I don't want a painting, I want an easily discernable icon. Also, I can't believe we're still doing Firefox so many years after its new logo debuted, especially since Thunderbird just changed their logo. In my opinion, it seems like people are just reiterating the same joke some bloke did without even looking up the why and how. And before you ask, yes I prefer the new Thunderbird logo too, it's much more discernable.
For real though, if it bothers you that much, I think it’s possible to change the shortcut icon on your desktop. You would have to download the old Firefox logo as an image on your computer, and then edit the properties of the Firefox shortcut to use the downloaded image of the old icon instead of the regular app icon. This won’t help for the mobile app though.
I prefer the right, simplified one on my phone. It's quicker to identify and the simple, bolder colors play better. I'd like to see the detailed one on the left on their website or something.