Cute, but I don't think a new mascot is what Firefox desperately needs right now.

Kit was created by a team of people, not generated by AI. And Kit isn’t an AI assistant or a chatbot.

Glad they cleared that up right away. The only mentions of AI are practically apologies, which is a good sign. I guess bullying works.

In the end, we agreed that Kit isn’t a fox nor a red panda. Kit is a Firefox, its own creature — with attributes from both a fox and a red panda, and perhaps a little fire magic.

This feels like it's for the kind of demographic that the platonic ideal of Firefox should represent.

I'm really happy to see a piece of news about "... your companion for ..." and it not being about yet another soulless LLM chatbot.

I like this. Let's make the internet a bit more fun again, everything is cold and soulless nowadays

I love him. He's adorable. 🧡

Kit is fucking adorable, I love them.

i miss the cute animal sketches they used on error pages a few years ago. like the confused little dinosaur with the map.

I want Kit stickers for my laptop. I will pay for them. Mozilla please take my money and give me adorable stickers.

e621 presence in 3... 2....

At one point, we asked ourselves whether or not Kit should look more like a red panda (leading to a brief detour into red panda references).

In the end, we agreed that Kit isn’t a fox nor a red panda. Kit is a Firefox, its own creature — with attributes from both a fox and a red panda, and perhaps a little fire magic.

Just my 2 cents, but since Red Pandas are endangered, I would have preferred that the made Kit a Red Panda.

The only AI named Kit I accept lives in a 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.

the firefox mascot can now use fire bending

chrome is going to fall behind in the browser wars

Clippy for the web!!! Exactly what we needed!

Firefox is cooked.

I’d be down for a Waterfox mascot tho.

Great, how much money was wasted on this thing that's not an essential part of a 100% standards-compliant browser?

Because that's what Firefox needs to be. That's all it should ever have been.

Yes, this makes me give two shits about FF now because a new logo/mascot...?

I'm just glad Firefox is free, because with the way they've been doing things the last couple iterations I dont see a very good future for it.

Thank dog there're alternatives out there.

Hooray! New clippy!