Google had a new logo yesterday when I opened the browser celebrating the 30 year anniversary of Pacman and the logo included a change of the second button text to Insert Coin so you could play Pacman . I thought it was so cool!

Just a bit of fun like so many other logos they have used in the past but interactive and different. I played Pacman and moved on but later when I used cool previews I had an annoying noise I couldn’t seem to get rid of.

I closed out firefox and it went away. Didn’t think much more about it until I opened up firefox again this morning and it updated cool previews where they mentioned fixing the pacman bug.

Other people apparently have had worse experiences especially if they are in a work environment or they were wishing to listen to music or videos. In fact many are so p’d off they say they are migrating permanently to other browsers.

I remember reading an ebook a while back about mistakes people make when making websites and one of them was about the use of flash and sound. I admit I’m amused that Google has stumbled a little with this one, but its a lesson to us all, I guess, that when we try and be creative and make things more interesting, sometimes we are just going to really upset some people instead.

Read the thread of comments in the following article to see what I mean! You’ll also find a variety of ways to fix the pacman bug if its still bothering you today.

• Google Pacman Sound Bug (ghacks.net)

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