Which animal is represented by the Firefox web browser logo?

The Firefox web browser logo represents a red panda.

Although the name Firefox and the curled orange animal suggest a fox, “firefox” is an older English name for the red panda. The browser’s branding uses a stylized red-orange animal encircling a blue globe, creating a visual link between the product name and the worldwide web.

The first Firefox logo was designed by Steven Garrity, with later refinements by professional design teams. Over time, the mark became more abstract, and the current Firefox brand family uses simplified forms rather than a detailed animal illustration.

The animal is therefore not a conventional red fox. Mozilla has used fox imagery because of the wordplay in the product name, but the original naming reference is the red panda. This distinction is one of the most common facts people get wrong about the logo.