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The tooltips work fine for me, but I'm using Minefield (Firefox nightly). It's not a site problem, though.

I will agree that it is technically not a site problem.

But it is definitely a usability problem.

Install the current Firefox that 90+% of the Firefox users are using and see how that works. It makes reading the titles an exercise in patience.

That's dumb. It doesn't make very much sense. It should be fixed. It's not easily usable and someone should take care of that.

Or, I guess you could just tell people "If you don't like it, use Swift and shut up because we really aren't listening to your input. We'll do our site however we want because it's our site, not yours. It doesn't belong the community."

You know... I'm sure there's a nicer way to get my point across. Please try to take this as 'constructive criticism' and not a 'complaint'. It's not supposed to sound like an attack. I just can't figure out how to better say what I'm trying to say.

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I will agree that it is technically not a site problem.

But it is definitely a usability problem.

Install the current Firefox that 90+% of the Firefox users are using and see how that works. It makes reading the titles an exercise in patience.

That's dumb. It doesn't make very much sense. It should be fixed. It's not easily usable and someone should take care of that.

Or, I guess you could just tell people "If you don't like it, use Swift and shut up because we really aren't listening to your input. We'll do our site however we want because it's our site, not yours. It doesn't belong the community."

You know... I'm sure there's a nicer way to get my point across. Please try to take this as 'constructive criticism' and not a 'complaint'. It's not supposed to sound like an attack. I just can't figure out how to better say what I'm trying to say.

The problem is I'm not sure we can fix it if it's a browser problem and not a code problem. That was my whole point.

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Woa, very nicely done! :D I'm loving it! :heart:

whats happened to the front page. there used to be a list of current forum posts/news postst ect. where you could click up or down to select the bit you wanted.

It seems like they moved it to the mouse-over of the navigation tabs at the top op the page. (Main | Software | Games | Forums) When you place your mouse over it, it pops up. I think it looks much nicer! (Y)

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Nick Sheldon

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Criticism and praise here, sorry ...

Basically I love the new drop menus from the top for Main. Software. Gamers Forum, makes it look a lot tidier/cleaner.

However, one issue I have, and hope I can explain it correctly. When I hover over a post/thread in the droplist I get the full title of the post/thread, however now when I move away and hover over another it does not display the new full title. Instead I have to move away from the droplist so that it disappears and reopen it and then hover for the full title again. It seems to hold the first one you hover over in memory or something unless you do this. FYI I am using Fx 2.0.0.4

I hope that makes sense? It worked perfectly in the old style, but not in this :( That's the only criticism I can offer, other than that excellent upgrade :)

That is doing my head in too!

When you hove you get the full title and ALSO if any commecnts have been made. (I use this for an indication of how good new software is etc)

Can you fix it?

:Using Firefox

Grand Master

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i'm glad the recent forum posts is back on the front page. however, i don't like that it only shows 5 items and also that it can accidently change section by breifly hovering over a section. there should be that up and down arrow to view different sections rather than the hover. also, a refresh button would be handy too.

but thanks for listening in the first place and bringing it back!

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