June 20, 2008 at 12:11 pm
· Filed under Movies
The UI for Netflix’s bonus rentals is a little confusing. When you click on “Use a Bonus Rental,” a confirmation loads on the next page telling you that your next rental will ship soon. However, after this page, there is no further confirmation that such a thing is going to happen anywhere else, and it’s impossible to tell if you actually did things right.
This is in contrast to if you report a disc problem or look at your queue after you return a few disks. In those instances, the “At Home” portion of your queue adds or swaps a few lines to say “[Movie Title]: Shipping Soon.” With a Bonus Rental, no line is added until the next day or so, when they actually ship the disk out.
I called to query Netflix about this and they were gracious enough to send me another disk, but now I have an extra disk on top of my requested bonus disk. I don’t mind, but if any Netflix business-folk come across this, I’m not trying to scam your customer service folks – I just couldn’t figure out your Bonus Rental UI!
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June 8, 2008 at 6:24 pm
· Filed under Firefox
I’ve been using Firefox 3 alphas, betas, and RCs off and on for several months now, and I’m looking forward for the final release of Firefox 3. It’s a fantastic release and has really come together in the past several months, and I think anyone who’s ever used Firefox or even thought about using it should download it as soon as it’s released.
Thus, I bring to you a non-comprehensive listing of things I love that are new to Firefox 3, in no particular order.
- OS X-consistent window chrome theme
- Aqua form controls and buttons
- The Awesome Bar (this cannot be overemphasized enough)
- Overall speed and performance increases
- Quartz font-rendering on OS X, bringing with it OS consistent font smoothing!
Things that I love in Firefox 3, but where credit deserves to go somewhere else:
Things that I wish were in Firefox 3, but sadly aren’t:
- Text responds to CMD-CTRL-D for the dictionary pop-up (bug 301451)
- In-browser PDF Reader plugin (no, Adobe’s plugin does not work)
Try a sneak peek of Firefox 3 right now by downloading a release candidate build. As always with pre-releases, the intent is to figure out what significant but unknown bugs are before general release, so if this idea makes you squeamish you should probably avoid it for now.
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