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Has anyone else noticed that the messages editor acts strange since the upgrade?

 

I have noticed that the cursor will skip many words when I'm trying to move around in a message and make corrections. It forces me to backspace over large sections of text to fix something and then re-type the portion erased.

 

I use Firefox on both a Windows 2000 and a Linux system and both show the same behavior. Is this seen when using Explorer?

 

Wheelman

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I've noticed it from time to time on my slow compu at home as well as the faster ones at work. It's like the "replace text as you type" button is on. Even the spacebar will delete text. I guess were talking about the same thing. Haven't noticed it so much lately.

 

Here's something i found to make the cuss words from having to retype text when this happens go away (well, drop to a minimum). Whenever you have a typo to correct, highlight everything past it, right click/cut it, fix the typo, then paste back afterwards. You can also go to after the typo, hit enter a couple of times to drop the text after it down a line or so, fix the prob, then backspace to put the text back up to the fix.

 

I'm not compu literate so maybe there's a better way.

 

Hope this helps.

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73TPIZ,

I've tried the cut and past thing but the problem I've experienced is that the cursor where the next letter will be placed jumps several words if the cursor movement (arrow) keys are used and it's impossible to click on a specific location in this area with the mouse.

 

I'm using explorer to edit this message (at work) and have noticed no problems so it must be a Firefox thing, or a combination of Firefox and Linux or Win 2000.

 

I'm a software engineer and this stuff frustrates the hell out of me.

I started programming in the days when a fast PC had an 8Mhz 286 processor, 1 Meg of RAM and ran DOS. It was drilled into us to do everything possible to conserve memory and play friendly with other applications that might be on the system. These new systems and the software (Windows and Linux) is so complicated and bloated it's a wonder any of it works, of course none of it works reliably.

 

I'm back to programming on "lite" hardware (embedded development) and thank God for it, writing software for Windows can be a major PITA.

 

OK, I'm done with my rant, thank you all for listening.

 

Wheelman

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I'm a software engineer and this stuff frustrates the hell out of me.

Wheelman

 

Holy crap Batman!!

 

Well, that ends my endeavor to be of any help in this thread. :D

 

 

Robin signing off..............

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Holy crap Batman!!

 

Well' date=' that ends my endeavor to be of any help in this thread. :D

 

 

Robin signing off..............[/quote']

 

Robin,

Don't get me wrong, It's not that I don't know how to make it work it's that most of the software we use doesn't work as advertised and costs to damn much. That's what really gets me uptight.

 

Wheelman

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