Did you also think that the firefox logo on your search engine is a FOX? You got it wrong, Firefox’s official name-and-logo's sake is the "Red Panda". It looks like a raccoon, eats like a panda, it’s related to neither, and is a dark shade of reddish-brown. However, Jon Hicks, the renowned author of the Firefox logo today, and his logo was designed to look like the literal name of the software (a fox on fire), yet not deviate too much from the original Red Panda namesake.