Had it saved on my hard drive for years and recently re-discovered it. Seems to be from 2011 (!!)
Google is getting worse by the year, but it seems even back then some people were already seeing where things were going.
(Credits to the original author whoever it might be)
This red panda thing is bolognium. Like I know the pandas are called Fire Foxes colloquially but the company themselves have said the icon is a fox. Because it is clearly a fox. These days the site is saying that Red Pandas “could be” an “unofficial” mascot for Firefox. That’s nothing.