How can I get it back?
See http://communities.vmware.com/thread/188366 for the gory details. I hope this can get resolved in a timely manner :-/
Update:
Someone with a brighter mind then me suggested to use Windows System Restore feature. Excellent idea, everything is working again. I’ll still go for the VMWare support because such a thing should clearly not happen.
Add comment January 11th, 2009
If you’re one of the few poor (thousands, worldwide) users, you will be pretty surprised and upset once you find out why your downloads suddenly don’t work in your shiny new FF3 installation.
So what happened?
The FF developers decided that their Windows Application should respect the OS security settings. In my case, I use IE only for Windows Update, thus I put the update service from microsoft into the trusted zone and set the default seurity zone settings to high. I just don’t trust IE at all.
Why did this work the years before? Because I used FF for downloading everything else and until now FF didn’t respect this setting, which was a great life safer for me.
To make things worst I haven’t yet figured out a way to disable this behaviour in FF3, which means I’ve to suddenly lift the security settings for the complete system! As you guessed I’m pretty pissed about this.
Update: filed a bug report, excited to see what happens to it.
Update 2: Report closed within hours as Wontfix because it’s a deliberate change.
Update 3: My report has been marked as duplicate in favor of bug 445158 (which contains more information and, interestingly, has been opened by someone with an mozilla.com email address. Does that weight more then my request?)
Update 4: First comment on the report from another pissed user. I couldn’t say it in better words.
Add comment July 13th, 2008
It’s one of those days. Yes, exactly. I was installing software for evaluation on Windows when it happened at least three times to me that I didn’t see the last screen during the installation of this software because right in the second the screen came up I was writing text in another application and pressing either Return or Escape. They keystroke got received by the installers last screen and disappeared; right before I could read anything.
I really hate this.
This also happened to me the other day with a web-based newsletter application I was using. The application had opened a popup with a textarea which got updated every time there was something to report, like invalid email addresses. Every time the textarea got updated, the popup window received focus.
Guess what? I was happily surfing in FF the other time and closing some tabs with CTRL-W when out of a sudden the newsletter application grabbed the focus and, you guessed it, I was closing the popup which sends the newsletter out. Oh, did I mention that having this popup open was vital for sending the newsletter, i.e. closing the popup would stop sending the newsletter?
I complained immediately to the software company which admitted the problem but was unable to fix this because “that’s the way internet explorer works, try FF”. Ok, so I’m stupid, right, because I didn’t use FF? Learned another lesson, man.
Application developers should taken away the right to grab focus and bring out a window to the front which automatically grabs keyboard actions. It’s ridiculous.
Btw, I updated my blogs’ theme. Why is it so … spare? a) because most people today use some kind of RSS reader software anywhere and since I publish my articles as a whole there’s no need to visit the page and b) because I’m no designer, I don’t like the existing designs and don’t want to be just another copy of a theme. It’s basically a rip-off of Asa Dotzlers blog at the moment; sorry for that :-)
Add comment January 5th, 2007
I received my copy of Gothic 3 yesterday and because I’m currently moving to another flat I could only test it on my company IBM Z60 laptop. Unfortunately there’s a very annoying behaviour of Gothic 3: it forces the numlock to always be on! It completely ignores the user choice. On my laptop this is a problem because I don’t have a separate numeric block but they get maped over the regular alpha keyboards, which means that now in gothic I don’t have the keys m, j, k, etc. but they are numbers 0, 1, …
Which means that for example I can’t press the M key, because it is actually 0, which means jumping on the numeric one.
I crawled the ini files but didn’t find anything hinting that this behaviour can be disabled. I don’t understand what developers sometimes have at their mind. I sincerly hope that they issue a patch either removing this horrible thing or at least provide an ini setting for it.
2 comments October 14th, 2006
Raise your voice! Don’t let your computers get DRM infected without even telling you.
Node idea what I’m talking about?
Readthis and this and this and this and this and this and ….
Quintessence: you insert a music CD in your computer you get a free/automatic/not-asked-for installation of a Root-Kit. A basic roundup of what a root-kit does is: it uses technologies to hide things on your computer from you. Or even allow remote access.
To quote from Mark’s Internet Sysblog:
Not only had Sony put software on my system that uses techniques commonly used by malware to mask its presence, the software is poorly written and provides no means for uninstall. Worse, most users that stumble across the cloaked files with a RKR scan will cripple their computer if they attempt the obvious step of deleting the cloaked files.
fsck!
As reported by the german news Golem, there’s an uninstaller available.
Add comment November 2nd, 2005
My image onload-handler doesn’t fire when I set a new .src property. Basically, this is the same problem they had years ago, but didn’t fix yet? Wake up!
Add comment November 12th, 2004
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