» posted on 19:25 - 01 November 2009 | posted by Lev I knew Firefox 3.5 did this when I originally downloaded it back on Ubuntu 9.04. Because of this, I stopped using Firefox 3.5 right away and went back to Firefox 3.
Today I went ahead and updated to Ubuntu 9.10, which comes with Firefox 3.5 as default.
Grrr.....
Damn is it f*cking annoying. What gives?!
My guess is it was done out of memory management, since there is no other practical reason for removing it.
I remember when I noticed this when switching from IE 5 to IE 5.5 (or was it IE 5.5 to IE 6?), and damn was it annoying then. Well, it was worse then with IE because Microsoft doesn't let you downgrade to go back.
In any event, it's frustrating and annoying as hell. Did the developers just decide, "hey, GUI cues aren't all that important"?
I know I'm not the only one, because a quick google on "firefox 3.5 hourglass" will return pages with lots of other angry folks.
Maybe it's just me, but they really made a hugely stupid mistake here. Implementing something that is going to make people more frustrated and a lot happier with the browsing experience isn't going to justify performance - if that was why it was removed.
Damn, Mozilla... come on and get this back already! --- "Give me back my damn hourgl......" has been viewed  times ---
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