Snow?

[Mr Darn]

the snow was a nice gimmick, but i agree with monsta, it did get a little too much on every page.

Is there not a way to have it on the main page, and perhaps the forum's main directory page only, instead of evert thread?

[Merlin]

Get the snow back! Stop whinging your like a couple of scrooges :blink:

[Vic Patterson]

I think it's time to vote on this issue!

[Andy Millne]

It still is on the main page ok I'll add it to just the forum index. Will that make everybody happy?

[Monsta®]

It still is on the main page ok I'll add it to just the forum index. Will that make everybody happy?

a toggle button would be better!

[Malcolm Robinson]

Not to be too pedantic GGGG but it is now drifting in the opposite direction to the way it used to fall? Its coming straight off the sea now and its cold!

[Andy Millne]

a toggle button would be better!

A toggle button is easy enough but it would have to be re-toggled on every page load. making it stay permanantly in one state or another is more work so you'll have to give me a few days. Next you'll want wind speed and direction controls too

[threegee]

Next you'll want wind speed and direction controls too

I've anticipated that one, and it won't be Maplins gear either !

[Andy Millne]

OK the snow is back now with option to disable and wind control

[Mr Darn]

Thank god we are all telepathic and instantly know how to turn it on/off without any hints at all!

[Andy Millne]

Thank god we are all telepathic and instantly know how to turn it on/off without any hints at all!

There's a snow control bar underneath the menu at the top. Talk about ridiculous site features

[Mr Darn]

For those who think pictures speak a thousand words:

[Cympil]

There's a snow control bar underneath the menu at the top. Talk about ridiculous site features

That`s all well and good, but how do you turn the snow back on after you`ve disabled it?

I`ve broke mine

[Cympil]

That`s all well and good, but how do you turn the snow back on after you`ve disabled it?

I`ve broke mine

Actually, i haven`t

The `enable` button worked again after i had posted.

[Andy Millne]

That`s all well and good, but how do you turn the snow back on after you`ve disabled it?

I`ve broke mine

You'll have to browse to another page then click enable.

[Malcolm Robinson]

OK the snow is back now with option to disable and wind control

I have just read this and I am still laughing about it!

The county with its host of professional IT experts cannot maintain its own web site and the G's have put blooming snow controls on ours……….

Hats off to you gentlemen!

[Mr Darn]

funnily enough, somethings crashing my firefox browser since the snow toggle appeared.

Is there anything i could supply to pin-point the problem?

Edited December 12, 2009 by Mr Darn

[Mr Darn]

heres a crash report from mozilla:

Add-ons: {B13721C7-F507-4982-B2E5-502A71474FED}:3.3.0.3971,{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0016-ABCDEFFEDCBA}:6.0.16,{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}:1.1,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.5.5

BuildID: 20091102152451

CrashTime: 1260633295

Email: (omitted)

InstallTime: 1260460600

ProductName: Firefox

SecondsSinceLastCrash: 191

StartupTime: 1260633114

Theme: classic/1.0

Throttleable: 1

URL:

Vendor: Mozilla

Version: 3.5.5

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

The bit in bold was edited...

[Andy Millne]

funnily enough, somethings crashing my firefox browser since the snow toggle appeared.

Is there anything i could supply to pin-point the problem?

Is the whole browser freezing? excuse the pun, or just the snow? Certain things will cause the snow to stop in it's tracks in Firefox but it shouldn't crash the whole browser.

[Mr Darn]

completly crashed it, to the point of the little box saying "sorry, but firefox crashed, submit this to firefox so we can analyze it" sort of thing, then on restart the tabs cant be reloaded.

I only have the one tab open, and nothing else running in background, not even messenger.

If theres any other place a report is saved that may help, let me know.

Windows Vista home premium on an acer aspire. not yet at SP1 due to reinstalation of OS.

[Andy Millne]

Might be a memory handling issue with FireFox. I've reduced the amount of "snow" on screen at any one time, see if that makes any difference.

[Mr Darn]

Ok, re-enabling snow now... see what happens.

[Mr Darn]

seems fine now (the result was pretty instant before) but the level of snow is disapointing

If i'm the only one having trouble, i'll just disable it untill i'm fully updated. no point spoiling everyones fun!

I only use this laptop briefly anyways

[Mr Darn]

Spoke too soon!

[threegee]

Bug Report: The Change Wind should be greyed when the snow is disabled.