Ui

The Mozilla Foundation updated Firefox to its version 4 last month and it has lots of interesting features. So I upgraded and although I initially criticized the new interface (when looking at screenshot from beta releases), I now quite like it: it gives more space to the actual content (web pages) to keep the “container” (the Firefox GUI in itself) to a minimum. But … (because there always is a “but”). But I found 2 annoying issues with the new version … ...

I often wrote about Pubmed here. Briefly, it’s a search engine for publications in the biomedical domain. They recently redesigned their user interface and, although there are a lot of new things to save time that came with the new design, there is still a problem with their interface: the new search box takes too much space … Redesigned Pubmed homepage ( bigger image) Redesigned Pubmed result page: search box is hiding the logo, the display settings and the first result ( bigger image) ...

I don’t know if it’s a bug or a feature (*) but the Windows Task Manager doesn’t seem to refresh its graphs when we are moving its window. It’s barely noticeable when you usually move it (**) but you can spot this behaviour when one of your other windows is freezing. ( larger screenshot) (*) I know this post is nearly useless but I’m tired of waiting for this freezing software … ...