IE7 - Life Without a Throbber

Is there no outrage?

from WinCustomize Forums
Opera doesn't have a throbber. I'm an Opera user, but I use IE for MLB Game Day Audio & a couple of other things that don't work in Opera. Recently I installed the IE7 beta & found that MS has made it much more like Opera, adding tabs and dropping the throbber, among other things. As indicated in the picture below, (1) there's a circle animation on the tab that rotates clockwise until the page rendering finishes. (2) Then the circle is replaced by the website favicon



Throbbers have been the subject of such passion & heat in WC forums that I have been surprised at the silence regarding this new development. Maybe people are still in shock and can't bring themselves to utter their words of anguish. Maybe there have been silent vows resolving never to upgrade to IE7. Maybe nobody cares. Maybe there is a throbber & I just don't see it. It's just that after the outcry when one Troll lost his throbber, I expected someone would say something about the end of the throbber as we know it.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The thought of no Throbber makes me
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I haven't tried IE7... as you know, I'm also an Opera user. I don't miss having a throbber in the least. I'm much happier with Opera's 'pop-up at bottom' Progress Bar .....
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This thread has a very good chance of going downhill real fast.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't miss having a throbber


Throbbers have been the subject of such passion


Maybe there is a throbber & I just don't see it.


one Troll lost his throbber


dropping the throbber,


the end of the throbber as we know it.


LOL Fight
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have only one reaction to this subject...
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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In a tabbed world, it only makes sense for each tab to have its own throbber. Even though Firefox has both, I think the overall throbber is redundant.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Most "Throbbers are!
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top


This needs to be the Throbber on a SA skin.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good F*****g riddance!
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Good F*****g riddance!


I.R.,you're allowed to say flaming on WC....no need to replace the middle bit with stars.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In checking my e-mail this morning...I have several messages from oriental countries that promise great prices on pharmacuticals to get any throbber back into working order.

However, if your throbber operates for more than four hours...you should see a doctor.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like the idea of many, smaller throbbers; one huge throbber can get boring after a while.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In checking my e-mail this morning...I have several messages from oriental countries that promise great prices on pharmacuticals to get any throbber back into working order.


Okay, I'll bite and ask for copies of these fantastic offers....ANY throbber, they say!

Just wondering now if I'd be able to afford the huge shipping costs (about 4 or 5 seconds max, rather than 4 hours) so I'm gonna need a shi!load of the stuff.

BTW, any info on how these pharmacueticals are administered....intravenously, CD or a floppy disc? What about downloading them to cut out the postie altogether? Just worried that my edlerly postman might figure out the contents of the package and decide to keep 'em for himself.

There again, could always go back to dial up to increase throbber duration.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's rumoured that various parts of a bear's anatomy does wonders for throbber dysfunction if administered in a timely manner...

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I thought "flaming" was verboten here.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm with I.R. It's one less thing I'll have to skin.  

 

...until some future version of WindowBlinds makes them skinnable.   

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's rumoured that various parts of a bear's anatomy does wonders for throbber dysfunction if administered in a timely manner...


Which various parts?

P'raps somebody shoulda mentioned this to Bichur back when his was broken....rhino horn and oysters failed to do the trick, and the splints became too impractical a cumbersome during normal throbber function.

I thought "flaming" was verboten here.


Well there's flaming (artists, works, etc)....and there's flaming nuiscance; good time; drunk and etc. The former is verboten...the latter is permissible in moderation/small doses.

Your: "Good F*****g riddance", however, was pefectly acceptable in context of the conversation, but flipping is okay if you're not too comfortable with flaming.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This thread has a very good chance of going downhill real fast.


No thread is safe from 'Po ( my squiggle isn't even safe from him )
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
In all fairness...your squiggle, fairyy...is actually a tilde
Po has had a thing about tildes for the longest time...
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Throbber removal tool here https://forums.wincustomize.com/?forumid=144&aid=56907#455723

works great and is reversible...once applied,reset your toolbars(see the readme)    
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Throbber removal tool here.....


OUCH! Sounds quite painful, even if it is reversible.

Nah, not for me....I'm placing great faith in those pharmecueticals and hoping they'll fix mine.



BTW, just for curiosity sake, that Throbber removal tool wouldn't be nicknamed Lorena Bobbit, would it?
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Which various parts?


Inuits call one the oosig[/B]
Removal of which makes the bear extremely unpleasant, [B]immediately