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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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  I now have less than a hundred bucks in my bank account now, until the 25th.
I just got a new hard disc, twice the size of my last (1TB), and a 650W power supply. The power supply had the highest review rating and was why I went with it. I wanted the 750W, and probably would have despite its price, but it didn't have as good a rating.
Now I really hope they get here sooooooooooon.
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I hate my ISP. They are all a bunch of incompetent monkeys who don't know $h!t about $h!t.
Well, here's some major nice news for me (and my server).
I knew this was coming, but forgot about it until I received this little advertisement in the mail today.
Very very soon my housing area will have the opportunity to switch over to 100 Mb/s!!!
That makes me nearly wet my pants.
While my current 24 Mb/s line still may be leaps and bounds ahead of most American's, that simply isn't enough for me when I know that other Swedes around me are getting 100 Mb/s.
Hehehehe
I cannot wait. As soon as they give us a definite date, it's "f*ck you, Bredbands Bolaget". My current ISP (Bredbands Bolaget) has a 3 month termination clause in their contract, so the sooner I get the date, the better.
You seriously cannot imagine how frustrating Bredbands Bolaget has been for me. There was a time where they were the best ISP in Sweden (just 5 years ago), but that time has come and passed. They are now, the slimy crap that crap that other crap won't eat. I really despise BBB - a bunch of incompetent morons.
I'm not too happy that the 100 Mb connection is going to be offered through my crummy (overpriced) electronic company, but what can you do?
100 Mb COME SOON!
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I think I should make a weekly "yet another annoyance" bit on all the new ways Firefox finds to irritate and disasstisfy me.
Anyhow, I just came across another while posting my last item.
It seems that, with Firefox 3 at least, once you have clicked the "browse" button to upload a file, you can't erase that field, if you don't have anything to upload!
I discovered this when I accidently tried uploading my image as an icon. My software threw the "maximum icon size" error, so I went back to correct it. I could easily use the browse button on the appropriate field to have the file uploaded, but there is no way to remove the selection from the previously selected failure.
In other words, an entire form of contents can be wasted in a split second because you aren't able to erase the path to a file to be uploaded. Previous versions would allow you to select the path and erase it (I believe IE handles this the same). Not anymore! Anytime you click or select the text already stored, the damn browser opens up the dialog box to upload a file. Clicking "Cancel" only cancels out of the current dialog and the previous value remains!
Seriously... I'm just waiting, hoping, and waiting some more for the next great browser to come along. I've never been fully satisfied with Firefox from day 1 - sure, it's still the best bet - and my frustration at the constant hurdles the team keeps throwing in are really a turn off.
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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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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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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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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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If you're like me, then there's probably a game you can remember playing forever-ago, but can't anymore because it was on DOS (or Windows 95 in some cases).
It turns out there is a really good program available, under the name "dosemu". For ubuntu:
[CODE TYPE="BASH"]sudo apt-get install dosemu[/CODE]
You'll see after launching it that it mounts the Windows "C" directory to ~/.dosemu/drive_c/. So any files you move into this folder for Linux will be accessible from the DOS virtualization.
There are a few games I got to get ahold of now. In particular, I am after Phantasmagoria & Phantasmagoria 2: A puzzle of flesh. If anyone has the retail version of either of these two, perhaps I can buy 'em off you. I may have to check ebay again... Grr...
I've attached a demo of quake to this item - installs and runs in dosemu perfectly.
Remember when they used to have this concept called "share-ware"? Today they call it piracy.
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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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It's nice to feel my head so light as it is, at least once in a while.
It's a shame not everything can be so good at the moment though. I think my external 500GB hard drive is officially toast.  Plus, my PC's power supply is fried.
(mental note: make more icons for this site)
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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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I just heard about this web site on Fast Track (on BBC). It's called "Bring Some", and is conveniently located at the domain bringsome.com.
The premise is pretty simple - you paste ads of things you can provide to other people or ads of things you want other people to bring to you.
Obviously, this is right on target for me. I've already created a couple of ads, and I will probably do a few more any minute now.
Check it out if you are interested in getting ahold of hard to obtain things for your area, or if you are interested in helping hook people like me up with their goodies. 
www.bringsome.com
You can view my ads, for all the things I want you to send me here:
http://www.bringsome.com/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=show_user&userid=811&Itemid=31
If you want to help hook me up, you can respond and contact me here. In case it isn't clear, I'd pay for the items and shipping, of course.
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