Get ready for a new Crash Reporter icon in Firefox 3.1

Firefox lead graphic designer Alex Faaborg says that they’re going to try to get a new icon for the Mozilla Crash Reporter. Right now they just use the icon for the software updater, but this is something they’ve been wanting to do for a while.

There’s no preliminary graphics, but Alex does have an possible idea. You can follow the discussion on his blog, but he does realize whatever they come up with could be an image that people get really sick of. Although hopefully people will get less chance of getting sick of it as Firefox gets more stable and crashes a lot less often (unless you’re testing pre-release builds, of course, when things are liable to crash until they get specific bugs munched).

Our favorite spaceman named as IT Community Hero of the Year

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu Linux distro has been names the IT Community Hero of the Year by CNET Networks UK. He received the honor for “the support he has given to the community of developers working on the Ubuntu project and his commitment to a freely available operating system that can be used by anybody, anywhere in the world.”

It’s no secret that he wants Linux in general to be even more successful than it already is, and while he fights for Ubuntu to be easier to use and prettier the improvements he pushes for are in many cases things that won’t be applicable just to Ubuntu.

You can get more info in the press release on SourceWire.com. Thanks to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter for bringing this story to my attention.