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'Taxing' times for IE 7 users

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It was a G'Day for online retailer Kogan when it announced that it was levying a charge of nearly 7% on orders from customers using IE7.

An educational exercise par excellence you may agree. Hit the punter in the pocket and they learn rapidly. No argument with that and it's all true but c‘mon -the Oz company showed some remarkable marketing savvy as well.

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An entertaining Opera press release

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An entertaining press release arrived this morning from the Norwegian browser maker Opera. Here it is in its entirety (after the jump):

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IE9 or Firefox 4 - which is faster?

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Now that the final versions of both Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 are available to download, we put both - plus IE8, Firefox 3.6 and Chrome - through a test to see which was quickest.

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Got a question about Firefox?

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Do you use the Firefox web browser? Have you tried the beta version of Firefox 4, perhaps, or have you switched away to one of its rivals, Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome?

Next week we'll be meeting with some senior representatives of Mozilla, the organisation that makes Firefox, to talk all about its plans for the next version: Firefox 4. So, is there anything you'd like to know? Are there any features that you wish were included, or annoyances that you hope will be gone in the new version?

Let us know by adding your questions in the comments below, and we'll get answers to as many as possible.

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