Archive for December, 2005

Online shops and refunds

Please allow 57 business days for money refund.

This is what most big online shops tell you when you cancel the order. That’s really goes on my nerves. I don’t have such luxury when buying from them – I pay up-front for the goods. If I have canceled in time and received the email saying that cancellation is fine and I will not be charged anything – then why don’t you give me my money back that very same moment.

Makes me think twice of ever buying anything again.

Automatic tab focus — no more

Today I experienced the revelation. Firefox is my browser and FeedDemon is my feed reader. Each time I clicked on the links in FD, they would open in Firefox and the newly opened tab would take focus. Switching back and forth was a pain.

I say was, because it no longer happens, since I installed Firefox 1.5. I think there was an option in 1.0.x that promised something like that, that I tried it and it didn’t work. Whatever the reason, now it works.

Happy times.