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Posted on 26th August 2008 by Sebastian

So, I was surfing through recently added articles on Digg (as I usually do), and I came upon something called “10 Reasons Why you Should Not Download FireFox“.

Now, being quite a fan of Firefox, I decided to read through this.

This read will not help you stop fighting with your lover over who’s doing the washing up but there will not be any questions left concerning which is the best web browser in the world. To avoid being accused of subjectivity I will give you some points that NOBODY will be able to argue with because everything in this article will be true and verifiable.

So be it, I thought, I’ll go check out those errors. For these tests, I will be using the latest version of Firefox (3.0.1) and Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13 to compare. [...]

Posted on 21st August 2008 by Sebastian

If you have an externally hosted blog (at, say, Blogger, LiveJournal, …), you might miss the ability to have a shortcut icon, or a favicon, as it’s often called.

What a favicon is, in case you don’t know, is a small icon (usually 16×16 pixels), that is displayed next to the address bar in most browsers.
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