Sunday, June 1, 2008

Hard finding my Google pages

On Friday 30th May just like others i get my PC to do what i do normally, but something was unusual; i couldn't find the Google Search result among the tabs that i have open, and you might might ask why?. The simple is that Google changed their favicon. It's crazy how just a little change could affect a person's general browsing experience. For those that do not know about favicon, it is just a 16 X 16 pixel logo of the company in a .ico format for most browsers. But browser like Firefox (damn! i love this browser) do support other picture format like .png. this logo is put on the website so that users can easily spot the website or webpage mainly on the bookmarks or among the tabs they one has open, this really comes in handy since most browser now support tab browsing.

{ Before }
{Now }
Maybe by now most of you have noticed the changed or maybe not, personally i don't like this new favicon, i think the old one is more defined and has a stronger presence than this new small letter 'g'

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