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Mozilla's rebrand leaves web browsers confused

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NewsHubMozilla’s new logo, moz://a, is throwing web browsers into a tizzy, with Chrome, Safari and Mozilla’s own Firefox having issues with the rebrand.
The Mozilla Foundation this week revealed its new logo, which replaces the ‘ill’ with ‘://’ in a nod to its developer community, saying “we’ve designed the language of the internet into our brand identity”.
Apparently it hasn’t done too good a job of it, as Google Chrome and Firefox both recognise the logo as a search term that yields mixed results, while Safari tries to direct the user to a webpage, before utterly failing.
The issue has generated a fresh comment thread on the non-profit foundation’s website, called: Bug 1331968 – (moz://a) Make Firefox support moz://a.
“I’d imagine with the new logo, a lot of people will try typing moz://a in the URL bar.

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