MemeMachineGo!

Mozilla’s rules are that only official Firefox builds can use the official Firefox artwork, including icons. Unofficial efforts like Moox’s optimized compilations for Windows usually use the “default unofficial artwork” which means a blue globe icon.

Way back when, the Mozilla icon was an adorable little blue gecko. Later versions had an M or a big red Godzilla, and then I switched to Phoenix, then Firebird, then Firefox. All along I missed that little blue guy. (Gecko is the name of Mozilla’s page layout engine.)

I googled and googled for a copy of the gecko icon; finally, it occurred to me I could take matters into my own hands. I downloaded Mozilla 0.9.1 from June, 2001. After installing it, I used IconsExtract to, er, extract the icons.

Then it was just a matter of changing my shortcut icon and changing the icons internally.

You can click on the gecko to download the icon for yourself. Because I care.