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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!
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Now I'm not normally one to praise anything Microsoft has done, but Hotmail has really improved in speed!
I haven't checked my hotmail account for maybe around a year. I dreaded going in because of spam. Surprisingly, I only had some 470 or so (which is basically what I get to my TT email every 3 days).
Anyhow, navigating between messages and deleting messages is nearly instantanious now, as opposed to before where the whole page whole reload for simple tasks, and loads usually took at least a couple of seconds.
I'm quite impressed, though I still don't intend on using it; I just wanted to clean it out and test out the importer feature in Theia.
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I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but this website has been down for the past 2 days. I have no frigging clue why it was down, nor do I have a frigging clue why it is working now.
It wasn't site related because even pinging the hostname levlive.com hasn't worked for me the past 2 days. I have no idea if it was DNS related either, because I never touched a damn thing with the DNS prior to it going off.
Restarting the server countless times did nothing, but oddly enough it just started to load for me, even though earlier this morning it wasn't working for me.
*sigh*
Sometimes computers can be really stupid and do things with no seemingly logical reason behind it. Either that or what a computers might see as logical defies human logic. Whatever the case, sometimes computers do downright weird things without being told to. I'm just glad it seems to be fixed now. 
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I updated PHP on the server today, so if you popped into my blog for about an hour or two, you may have noticed it was down, or throwing tons of warnings.
It turns out the latest PHP version has depreciated both "ereg" related functions and "split". I had no idea this was coming, and I have been keeping pretty up to date with PHP, so it felt like it came out of nowhere.
I had to go through probably around a hundred or more different source code files from Theia to correct the code to use other functions or methods. That was not fun!
Plus, since this meant replacing all the source files to get rid of the damn warnings, it also meant I had to use the most updated build of Theia (which has numerous changes since the last build), so this brought on even more issues.
Fortunately, I think I have it mostly under control now. If you see anything kooky with my site, or TT, please let me know so I can fix it!
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I was googling around a bit, and since I saw lots of people who mention this problem, but no solid or reliable fix that works for everyone, I thought I'd provide what I believe to be the proper solution to it:
I myself first encountered it today after a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.04.
Whenever my screen would switch over full screen mode, or switch back from it, the wallpaper would show for a split second. Not a big deal, but kinda annoying, especially when it comes out of nowhere.
So anyhow, yes, it is caused by Compiz. I tried various tests... basically with all the plug-ins and options that were already set to default. I tracked it down to coming from a single setting.
Open the "CompizConfig Settings Manager" program and click "General Options". On the first tab, "General", you will see a check box for an option reading "Unredirect Fullscreen Windows". This was checked for me by default, but after unchecking it, the problem immediately went away.
For any of you folks who still run into this, try what I mention above, because it was a quick and simple fix, and probably the source of the problem in the first place.
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I'm very pleased with the service provided by the tablet producing company, Wacom!
Actually, I couldn't be more pleased with how well they handled my situation.
On December 9th, I sent off a defective Wacom Graphire 4 tablet pen. I won't get into the details of what was wrong with it, but to summarize the pen itself (not the board) was no longer functional as it was always acting like it was being pressed (or "clicked") whenever you brought it near the tablet.
So anyhow, after a bit of researching I discovered another person out there who had the same problem and was told by Wacom it meant the pen was defective. I knew this was the case since NeroAnima has the same tablet and her pen worked just fine on my tablet.
So I had gone through the proper support channels with their people through email and they had given me an RMA number to include with the pen and instructed me to send it back to their European repair center.
On the 9th of December I had sent the pen off, and just yesterday (the 19th of December) I had received a brand new pen, which is working just perfectly!
It took them a mere ten days (including weekends) to get me a new one, even though they claimed it could take several weeks for the repair center to process. Not only that but it is Christmas time now, so one might expect an even longer delivery.
So yeah, I am very pleased with how well Wacom has handled this, and this will definitely keep me coming back to them when I have other tablet needs.
Oh, and on a funny side note, the UPS man rang my door yesterday, and I never answered because I never answer for anyone. So he had dropped the package off to our neighbors and left a slip in the door telling me that. For the entire day I was baffled as to what I would be getting in the mail, let alone something that big which couldn't fit through our mail slot. Turns out that Wacom just put the tiny pen in a big box... Hahaha... And to think I sent them the defective pen in the smallest envelope I could find.
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Holy $h!t does iTunes skip my music like crazy.
I've googled and found out this is incredibly common.
A lot of people chalk it up to iTunes being memory intensive and your computer lacking the necessary power. I find that hard to believe considering I have a Core 2 Duo 2.13 processor with 4 GB ram.
Oh and this is a fresh Windows installation so I don't have loads of processes running.
But still, anytime I do anything on the computer (open a new tab, program, switch focus to different areas, etc) the damn program skips my music.
My question is, if this is so f*cking common, as web results indicate, why the hell isn't Apple doing anything about it?
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Okay, most of us have all comes to terms with admitting that Windows sucks the big smelly hairy one.
Well, I've been glad to say that I have been Windows free for probably well over a year. In fact, up until today we didn't even have a functional Windows installation in the house.
Since I got the iPhone just recently, I came to realize that you can't do jack $h!t with it unless you have a computer working with it. Even the bloody itunes and app store are unusable without a login account, which ironically the iPhone doesn't allow you to create, nor can you create such an account through the itunes web site. Your only solution is to use a computer to create the account. Lame, I know, but then again most companies don't really have their $h!t together.
So I installed Windows today, and now I can finally do some decent things with the iPhone. But getting Windows setup is in and of itself quite a tedious chore. For one thing, the initial setup sequence doesn't use a GUI, as Linux installations do. Lame. After I finally had it running, I had to reboot the f*cking thing more than five times. Install an app: reboot. Lather, rinse, repeat. I popped in my motherboard's driver disc and clicked the button to install all the drivers it came with (being four different ones). After clicking the button it said "reboots needed: 3".
Yup, that's how I knew I was back on the piece of $h!t Windows operating system. Install almost anything: reboot. Reconfigure something critical: reboot.
I'm not used to that. On Ubuntu (or any flavor of Linux for that matter) reboots never happen unless you are replacing kernel files. You can install huge server applications, reconfigure your graphical interface, and still you don't need to reboot the frigging computer.
Just another reason why I am so sick and tired of Windows.
Fortunately, I was able to create my itunes account so I can now install more programs from the app store.
I can't wait until payday, so I can get a MacBook and not have to deal with Windows (except for rare testing situations) anymore.
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I just discovered (and installed) this after seeing it advertised on ebay's web site.
http://pages.ebay.com/firefox/
It's called the Firefox companion for ebay, and it looks pretty sweet so far. Basically, it adds a little side bar to your web browser, which keeps you up to date on your activity on ebay. If you are bidding or watching items that are ending, it will give alerts and reminders when time is ticking. You can see everything you need to leave feedback for, stuff you are selling, stuff you won, stuff you lost, and so forth.
Best of all, it connects through the ebay servers to pull live data, and you can force refreshes at your will as well.
To top it off, this is an official extension created by the ebay company, so it isn't as half-assed as virtually every other buggy extension on Firefox made by would-be programmers.
If you're a regular ebayer this is something you will most definitely feel you need.
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This is oh-so-very frustrating.
I've discovered yet another annoyance/bug with how Firefox 3 handles dynamic data within overflowed DIVs.
It seems as though if you set the DIV height to be 100%, Firefox 3 interprets this as "continue to expand even if it means stretching out the height larger than the parent's height is", even when both elements use percentages as height measurements.
This is a problem since both Firefox 2 and Opera (presumably IE as well - I just don't have access to this) render the dimensions properly by always obeying the parent column or div. Firefox 3 basically says "screw the parent element's percentage dimension and let's expand however we want". It's understandable an inline element (such as huge letters, an image, etc) to stretch the height out and disobey the parent, but when the DIV that is stretching is an overflowed DIV, it shouldn't stretch more than the parent's height allows it.
God, I hate Firefox 3.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451382
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Yet another one I've discovered in the past few days.
As you may know if you've been developing sites on your own, opening a new window using Javascript provides you with a bunch of options to customize the window to your liking.
I was under the impression all Firefox browsers ignored the "location" attribute, but it seems now (that I am thankfully back on version 2) that the "location" attribute is only ignored on version 3.
In other words, if you are like me, you might want to hide the URL of the page you are opening in the new window - for my purpose it is purely aesthetic, to eliminate the feel of being "in a browser".
Now that I am back on Firefox 2 I have discovered that version 2 handles this attribute properly by hiding the URL location area of the new window. Firefox 3 either ignores this altogether, or there is yet another bug preventing it from working properly.
*sigh*
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Bad news it you are one of the thousands of people using the open source Javascript library, OverLib.
One of the more recent updates to Firefox 3 has rendered the CSS class names problematic when called or set through Javascript.
You may notice that the mouse-over captions on my blog and TT are unreadable on newer releases of Firefox 3. This is one of many Firefox 3 bugs, and does not exist in Internet Explorer, Firefox 2, or Opera.
I'm guessing there are going to be lots of frustrated people here since OverLib is hugely popular and widely used.
What's going on with the Firefox 3 development team? Is it just me or has their quality of work dramatically dipped since the version 3 series?
UPDATE: After more testing, it turns out this is only an issue when FireBug is installed and enabled as an extension with Firefox. This is the second bug I've been able to confirm which arises as a result of FireBug. Go figure, a debugging tool causing extra bugs in Firefox!
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Divs (or other HTML elements) that are supposed to be in a collapsed state, still occupy the same physical space they would if they were visible.
Instead of remaining "collapsed" (as the property name implies) they simply remain invisible, while occupying the same amount of space.
This is a bummer since Firefox 2 seems to treat this property correctly, by making the element seemingly disappear altogether so other content can occupy it's space.
This causes several aesthetic design issues since fields that should be squished into no more than a pixel, are still left stretched out but invisible.
Good grief!
I've noticed this issue since the beta stages of Firefox 3, and never mentioned it before, but since it's been numerous months now without a fix, I thought I'd bring it up and post a bug report.
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The server has been running a bit hotter than I think is good for it lately. It was up around 50 C the last few days I've been monitoring it, so I felt it was time for a little cleanup.
I have a routine I do every few months where I take it apart, and blow all the dust away with canned air, and then reapply thermal coolant.
At the moment the server is now only running at 39.5 C - granted it's only been on for 10 minutes now.
I discovered a bit of a problem too, which likely is preventing the thing from cooling down as much. It seems the top chassis fan has been KIA.
Mental note: buy another chassis fan the next time I'm out at Media Markt!
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