It's that there's no way to predict when the magnifying effect is going to kick in. So if you point your mouse somewhere near the top of the dock it springs into life.
I like the magnifying, it just needs to cut it out until the mouse is well and truly within the bounds of the unmagnified icons.
I suspect this has been pointed out on the internet a bazillion times. I can't be arsed to check.
There's so much to love about Firefox 3 on the mac.
But why can't they get the toolbar right?
It now has a correct faded look when unfocussed but they still can't get the unified toolbar right.
Look where the mouse is. You could (maybe, kinda) forgive them for not making a click at that point a drag action.
What you can't forgive is that it is a button click when the pointer is clearly outside the bounds of the button.
You'd be amazed how annoying it is.
Or maybe you wouldn't.
So far I'm liking Firefox 3.
I'm even getting used to the smart address bar thingemy.
But since it's so damn smart now, it feels like a missed opportunity to fix one of my biggest browser auto-complete bugbears.
How do you get rid of an erroneous (say mistyped) entry from the list? Particularly one the goes to the top of the list and obscures the thing you're really after.
I reckon a delete from history button (X marks the spot) in the drop list would do the trick.
Friend's reunited must be running scared. They won't let you put the word "Facebook" in your profile.
How fucking sad is that?
The letter g is also a problem apparently.
This is the most irritating dialog in Windows. Why on earth do I need to type my WEP password twice? It's a huge hexadecimal number. Is it a security feature? Are hackers really breaking into my Router by randomly typing in huge keys and are therefore deterred by having to do it twice?
What other system requires you to type a password twice to gain access (rather than to, for example, confirm a password change)?
Thank you windows for installing updates and rebooting my machine while I went to get a snack.
I feel more secure now and am not even slightly narked by the loss of the data in my open, unsaved document.
The new-style pedestrian crossing signs in the UK are the worst example of bad usability I can think of – to wit: they’re bad enough to get people killed.
I can’t remember if I’ve posted about them before, mainly because just thinking about them drives me into an apoplectic rage but Jeremy Keith has just posted about them again.
The first place I saw them was in Sheffield about four years ago (it was an early adopter apparently), but they’re just becoming more and more widespread – it’s pretty obvious that they’re replacing all the existing, excellent signs.
Let’s just spell this out:
There is quite genuinely nothing good about these displays. They are harder to see, harder to use, less obvious, give less notification and plainly dangerous.
