Flickr Image Loading: Firefox vs IE7 / 2007-11-26 / SML Screenshots

This is a screenshot from my computer browsing to the same Flickr set. On the left is Firefox 2.0.0.9, on the right is Internet Explorer 7.

As you can see here, all the images on IE7 is loaded, but Firefox still won't punch them in. Why? I don't get it. I'm on the same broadband connection here and it appears that Firefox kept on not loading the images.

So why not just use IE, you ask? Because I like my Greasemonkey scripts and Flickr is a whole lot different without them.

I have as such resulted in browsing on IE to look at the photos and commenting on Flickr. This is sad. Am I the only person experiencing this problem?

Originally I thought that maybe it's the greasemonkey scripts that's causing the problem but I disabled them and the problem persists.

Any clue? Any one? Comments would be highly appreciated. Any leads will be given full credits.

Thanks!

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Google search results comparison: Logged in vs Logged out

It always fascinates me how search results should differ depending on whether I'm signed into Google or not. Take a look at the following screenshots of Google Search: See-ming Lee

See-ming Lee - Google Search - Logged in

1. (1) SML = See-ming Lee = Design + Technology + Marketing Strategy = 李 ...
2. (2) SML Pro Blog
3. (7) digg / seeminglee
4. ( ) digg / seeminglee / friends history
5. (3) SML Gay Blog
6. (4) Member: seeminglee | LibraryThing
7. (5) seeminglee - SWiK
8. (6) Pipes from See-ming Lee
9. ( ) LinkedIn: See-ming Lee 李思明SML
10. (8) SML Notebook

See-ming Lee - Google Search - Logged out

1. (1) SML = See-ming Lee = Design + Technology + Marketing Strategy = 李 ...
2. (2) SML Pro Blog
3. (5) SML Gay Blog
4. (6) Member: seeminglee | LibraryThing
5. (7) seeminglee - SWiK
6. (8) Pipes from See-ming Lee
7. (3) digg / seeminglee
8. (10) SML Notebook
9. ( ) SML Thank You
10. ( ) SML Ideas

Google's algorithm appears to be saying

• When I'm logged in, since i am so active on social networks, my friends' activities matter, and as such the friends history on digg and my LinkedIn profile matters
• When I'm logged out, people generally search for me when they are looking for information about me, and so the blogs matter more

I'm not quite sure which is which, but I am going to continue to look around. The Google SERP fluctuates so much that it is hard to keep track. Does anyone know if there is a service that do data-mining everyday so I can compare stats?


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