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In both logos, it looks like the bird is protecting the mail, which was a nice touch to hang on to.

It is also interesting that the basic shape is the same between the Thunderbird and Firefox, but it doesn’t really look like the fox is protecting the Earth orb thingy.

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They look way too similar in the green/black version. I could see having to look twice

Same with the Firefox Developer Edition logo. Damn near the same logo. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

Given that the stable, dev, beta, and nightly logos used to basically just be palette swaps, they're supposed to be. PLus, "dev" firefox is literally the same version of Firefox as stable, but with a few about:config flags set differently by default. It's not even a different release version =)

I think GP means the new Thunderbird logo looks way too similar to the Firefox dev logo.

It makes sense that the design converges with Firefox's, but the flame doesn't really translate the same way with Thunderbird. I never thought of the connotation with "firewall" before, though one could say that it's a bit unfortunate that the mail is set on fire. Firefox moved away from depicting a burning planet.

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