I don’t know what was happening today, but Firefox (version 2) for Mac decided to mess me about.

Perhaps it was because I had a pretty nasty, unproductive blogging day anyway, but every time I wanted to do something in Firefox, it misbehaved in some way.

Firstly, the yellow “minimise” buttons disappeared for part of the morning, yet Command-M would still minimise the window.

Other weird behaviours which I’ve observed before included:

• Window refuses to stay put when dragged from one place on the desktop to another, particularly when dragging between two monitor displays.
• The active tab changes when moving the window.
• The window’s title bar disappears above the top of the screen after dragging, requiring a minimise and maximise operation to restore it.
• Whole program hanging when trying to do inline search for text on large pages.

I’m sure there were other issues as well.

The only saving grace for the latest version of Firefox is that it regularly saves the text in form elements — this has saved a lot of time when I’ve had to restart the program, though it would be great if it didn’t crash or hang in the first place.