Odd be-mac-viur
First of all when I boot, I get an message telling me that “No Updatable Devices Found”. I guess it happened after a system update, where the firmware for the device was to be updated, accurding to the Software Update program. I don’t use the drive that often, and I wouldn’t know if it did update it or not anyway. But this almost meaning less message annoys me, since it kind of shouts to my facethat the Playmoile OS doesn’t work as “Boom” as it says in the glitter adds.
While the first problem properly is a minor issue easy to solve, did I know how. This one is really odd. It concerns Firefox (Ff) and the OS X window manager, and is here parted in two issues. First; the Ff window reaches into top menu bar area. Either on top or underneath. In the picture it’s underneath. It was dragged into that area, but afterwards I can’t drag or click the bits of the Ff window that is in the menu bar area. Say it was on top and in a similar position as in this picture, then clicking the green radio-button to max the Ff window would instead unfold the Edit menu.
The other odd part is that Ff occupies the dashboard area. So when I enter the dashboard, it’s like Ff didn’t care and stay on top. Both of these two odd issues don’t happen all the time, I have to add, which makes it even more odd.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I don’t think that the first message to a drive. I have an idea that you might have some peripheral device plugged while the system prepared for an update and once it restarted to device is no longer there.
I’m just guessing, but that might be a reason.
As for you Ff problem. Now that is truly weird. Is the menu set to auto-hide or do you have any window-manipulation plug-ins installed in Firefox?
August 26th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Try right clicking (or ctrl-clicking) the “SuperDrive update” thing’s icon in the dock when it shows up. Uncheck “Open at Login”.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I’m curious. Did any of the suggestions fix the first problem?
As for the second one - it appears once in a while on my box too, at least where Firefox (or some other app) starts with part of its title bar under the menu. I’m not sure about the button reactions though. It’s happened with Finder, Poison and some other apps.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Sorry. I’ve been (and am) quite busy, so i haven’t had time to test anything yet. But I will, and hopefully soon.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Removing the SuperDirve updater from the ‘run at login’ list helped. Not surprisingly. The annoyance was fostered by the fact that it wasn’t automatically removed when the update happened - if it happened. I have no idea how to check that.
There was not external devices plugged in during the update.
September 8th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Sounds weird… That’s really all I can say…
As for the firefox thing - I just had a really weird experience with it - kinda similar to what you describe, but my screen went completely black except for firefox… Everything seemed to work as usual except that I couldn’t see anything but firefox… I think it might have something to do with the DivX plugin or something… Maybe Flash…