I’m pretty new to Inkscape; I’ve read this and this, and have experimented a bit, but without terribly good results. I’d be much obliged for any suggestions, using this awesome alternate LibreWolf logo I wish I’d made (a png) as an example of the type of image I’d like to make into an svg.
Auto trace won’t do a good job in any app, free or paid. You’ll need to trace it by hand. As a graphic designer, I spent many, many hours doing exactly this–hand tracing shitty raster logos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZlMHJJ0F0
As someone who is not a graphic designer, I spent almost a week tracing and web optimizing my workplace’s logo.
Before I started, it was stored as a compressed .jpeg in a fucking word document from 2010 or earlier