Oh. It all changed in the blink of an eye

"... I'm the only person still using 1024x768 again?"

No, BertieB, you're not the only one, and on Firefox (v3.6.15, on Win XP) the thing to close isn't visible because of the up/down scroll bar at the right-hand side.

Good to see it can now be disabled completely.

I've also just removed the Twitter box too :)

Well I never normally use Last 15mins but have just done that and yes, the box that says "Logout" now says "LogIn" and the Welcome to Mumsnet Join it for Free banner appears above the list of the threads that have been active in the last 15 minutes. Intriguing.

Thanks to being able to hide the dangle bars ...

DamianTech - to give you something else to work on fix, when I click I'm On I get a list of posts. If I then click Last 15 Minutes it appears to log me out of Mumsnet. It doesn't actually do that as I can click I'm On and it gives me the list, so not sure exactly what Last 15 Minutes is doing.

Anyone seeing the Wecome To Mumsnet Become A Member For Free and the Log In and Join buttons when clicking on Last 15 Minutes ?

I guess they may want to use the bunny for things other than easter. Possibly playboy day or something!? [bugrin]

oh, I see. makes sense now, thank you Rusty [busmile] (couldn't they have done e for Easter?)

[bgrin] etc is for Burns Night - if you look at the code behind the page the various festive emoticons are all still there, just disabled and hidden, so they can be used again next year.

did you do [bubear]?

CAn I just ask, tis only a question - why bu in front of the smiley names, instead of just b? It amuses me though, when I see things like bushock and bugrin in my post [bugrin]

Ta! [bugrin]

although some of the Easter bunnies are wrong.

biscuit is wrong
and confused is wrong.

[buhmm]

Thanks for the Threads I'm on link!
[bugrin]

And the Easter bunnies!

"viewpoint bar aka slide bar"
why not "aka dangly bar" ?

Thanks!
I have disabled mine..

and breathe...

Yes this is good old MN - us all on here complaining and hyperventilating about Change. Excellent effort - shall continue to dislike any and all changes and moan and grumble.

Makes me glad I'm still here

Malvapoeding - I think you make a valid point. Some people do use Mumsnet whilst at work and don't want it being so obvious. So having a way of permanently hiding the drop down bar I feel would be good.

This Machine Info is a bit more user friendly.
What browser am I using?
You appear to be using Google Chrome 10.0.648.205.
What operating system am I using?
You appear to be using Windows Vista

Oh, Chrome just updated!

Jeez!

What Browser Am I On?
This will give you some techy info. Copy and paste it.

Mine says:
language: en-GB
product: Gecko
mimeTypes: [object DOMMimeTypeArray]
appVersion: 5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16
plugins: [object DOMPluginArray]
onLine: true
platform: Win32
vendor: Google Inc.
appCodeName: Mozilla
cookieEnabled: true
geolocation: [object Geolocation]
appName: Netscape
productSub: 20030107
userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16
vendorSub:
javaEnabled: function javaEnabled() { [native code] }
getStorageUpdates: function getStorageUpdates() { [native code] }

Which in non tech speak is: Google Chrome ver 10.0.648.204

mine hasn't come back at all.

Behind - um, try pressing F1 and it will tell you which version of Internet Explorer you are using, if you are. (Mine is IE8, for e.g.) Or you might have Firefox loaded instead - dunno how you'd know that, sure someone else will!

MN version - go into Customise at the top of the page and see which version matches what you normally see

Hardware - are you on iPad, Mac, laptop running Windows, laptop running some other operating system, Blackberry, or whatever other options there are for getting on the internet.

HTH

thumbbunny - how would I know what I am using? (techno-ignoramus-in-the-extreme)

Argh! I think you have to banish it from every thread. I may be going mad. It went, it really did. Sometimes it tries to come back. It isn't here now

Limp dangler back on every thread I go into....
It is a wee bit beyond irritating.

May have to go out in the sunshine and read a book!