> This isn't a logo, it's a stylised name
Pretty much all the material about the redesign says this is, in fact, a logo.
I agree that the whole process was a complete clusterfuck. They picked the less atrocious suggestion. It's still terrible.
Mozilla could do with an actual logo, something that fits with the Thunderbird & Firefox logos.
Edit: Having looked at the other designs I think they chose correctly, but perhaps needed a "none of the above" option. This https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/now-for-the-fun-part/#co... gets closer.
Perhaps they wanted something that worked just using text, I guess. Maybe 2017 will be the year of leet-speak on the desktop!?!