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OK, so I've had the new favicon in my browser for ~4 days...
« on March 21st, 2012, 02:17 AM »
And it finally dawned on me why it bothered me in a really odd way.

The first attachment is of course the favicon, the second is what it reminds me of. That damned advert.

From Aqua Fresh Advert 2007 if you're wondering. Yes, this is a real commercial from the 1980s that I grew up with and over the last few years have been reshowing it unedited, because it still works.

📎 wedge_favicon.png - 3.05 kB, 192x28, viewed 241 times.

📎 aquafresh.jpg - 12.41 kB, 480x350, viewed 417 times.

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Re: OK, so I've had the new favicon in my browser for ~4 days...
« Reply #4, on March 21st, 2012, 10:55 AM »
It reminds me of Aquafresh toothpaste. It's only because I've had in the tab thingy as much as it has been that it reminded me of it.

It doesn't bother me particularly, it bothered me more that it reminded me of something but I couldn't remember what it was it reminded me of.

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Re: OK, so I've had the new favicon in my browser for ~4 days...
« Reply #6, on March 21st, 2012, 01:03 PM »
Same colour palette as the United Kingdom flag ;) But no, that wasn't the thing.

Tell you what, though, it's only an issue on the active tab, on an inactive tab the white background doesn't reinforce that look at all ;)

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Re: OK, so I've had the new favicon in my browser for ~4 days...
« Reply #9, on March 22nd, 2012, 05:38 AM »
Quote from live627 on March 21st, 2012, 07:10 AM
Quote from pivotraze on March 21st, 2012, 03:17 AM
Odd, I don't have the favicon! :) And this is a new browser as of 2 days ago (changed to Ubuntu for good xD... Although I do miss the sims...)

I still have a "we" favicon.
Firefox?

I have FF and see the favicon. The updated one.
No, Google Chrome :P

Well, Chromium, but they're basically the same thing lol

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Re: OK, so I've had the new favicon in my browser for ~4 days...
« Reply #11, on March 23rd, 2012, 12:45 AM »Last edited on March 23rd, 2012, 09:56 AM by Nao
So that gave me the new icon, but it makes me ponder something.


http://i39.tinypic.com/2pyywxl.png <-- In case the image doesn't attach. It hasn't 3 times in a row. Maybe a permission thing for user with less than x posts? :)

Should it have the background image? It doesn't in Aranator's picture so I'm just wondering haha

:edit: no permission issue, just the usual url bug. -- Nao

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