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Or do Flickr image posts to your blog not render under Firefox? All I see is a little dot marking the image when I view my blog in Firefox, but Safari or IE seem fine.

So CodeTek Virtual Desktop isn't perfect. There's a bug somewhere (in CTVD or I suppose it could be a Firefox bug) that causes Firefox to do funny stuff. I sent feedback to CodeTek and got this e-mail back.

    Hi Andy,

    Since Mozilla's team did not resolve the issue with the release of 1.0, we
    will have to now see how we can fix the problems without 'breaking'
    Firefox.

    We will be working on this to get it fixed and an update released.

    In the meantime, the workarounds suggested by users are:

    "When starting Firefox, if only "Firefox" appears in the menu bar (and not
    File, Edit, etc.), changing desktops and changing back seems to fix this
    problem."

    Some report that after hiding Firefox (cmd-H) and unhiding, the Firefox
    window is blank.  Clicking on buttons (back, reload, etc.) or highlighting
    text on the web page makes the areas clicked or highlighted appear.

    And, some report that the Firefox menu is that appears after the first
    start-up (ie, all other items were missing).  Alt-tab to another app on
    another desktop brought back functionality.  ("tab-in - tab-out did bring
    menus etc back in Firefox. Bit of a nuisance though.")

    I hope these notes help.

    Best regards, Bill

    Bill Goldstein
    President & CEO
    CodeTek Studios, Inc

How often do you get an e-mail from the CEO of a problem dealing with support problems. Granted Bill probably IS the company, but it feels good nonetheless.

I don't have one of these but you can do some pretty cool stuff with it, among the coolest:

• Use a keyboard
• SSH