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A Silly Post Brought to You by the Letters E and F

My daughter has a set of Sea & Learn Bath Shapes that are very entertaining for her and me and the wife alike. (The wife might not want to admit that. But for me I can say that they engage my brain more than a typical work-related meeting.)

I happened to notice that the “e” looks very Microsoft Internet Explorerish. It’s a small letter. It’s blue. So I looked around for the “f” and found that by an amazing coincidence, it is Firefox red!

(Ok, so the Firefox logo is predominantly orange and this is mostly red. Just play along, ok? The stars are orange. Take it or leave it.)

How about that? The forces of good and evil arrayed against each …

GNU/Linux Firefox image display problem caused by CSS padding

Do not adjust the picture on your television set. There is nothing wrong with the horizontal. That’s what the accompanying image is supposed to look like. This image, with this post, but not most of the other images on this site.

Continuing on the theme from my last post of “moving to fewer problems with this web site,” I fixed one more problem that has been nagging me ever since starting to use Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu (and Fedora) last year. I hope posting about this one will help someone else in their searching, since it seems like kind of an obscure problem.

When I started using Firefox on GNU/Linux systems, I noticed that images would often be garbled on web pages. They …