The Return of the Robot
When we last saw the Firefox 3 robot, he was triumphantly proclaiming victory in honor of the record-setting release last June.
Since then, of course, the Mozilla development community has been hard at work modifying and improving Firefox 3 to get it ready for the upcoming 3.1 launch. So, in that same spirit we sent the robot back to the shop for some upgrades, too.
The idea behind the upgrades was to give the robot a look that would be appropriate for the Shiretoko release, so we enlisted the help of talented mecha illustrator and colorist Josh Burcham. As you can see from this screenshot of the Firefox 3.1 beta 1 first run page, the robot is still lurking in the shadows, but don’t worry…more will be revealed soon.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I’m actually catching myself momentarily hoping we have more beta releases so that I can see the robot’s ongoing adventure
October 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am
[...] See John Slater’s post for more on the return of the Robot… [...]
October 17th, 2008 at 3:02 am
Hi,
this is off topic …
in your “style.css” add :
for better view of ->
October 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
[...] SF Green Festival sponsorship * updating our Careers page with some new functionality * creating new robot artwork for the 3.1 beta first run pages * optimizing Mozilla.com to drive more traffic to SUMO * helping [...]
March 12th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
[...] favorites so far, as it really shows off the Shiretoko-series robot in all his glory (as with the previous two installments, it was created by artist Josh [...]