Odds & Ends: Launch Items X conflict; JavaScript bug;

Check speed glitch in Toast?; more Launch Items X and Word X conflict John Senger writes: "I've found between Launch Items X and Word X. The problem is with the handling of Contextual Menus within Word X. Within Word X, if I control-click on a highlighted word, the contextual menu comes up as expected. If I then highlight a different word, the menu at first does not pop up. If I then try again, the menu is twice as big as expected since it is repeating itself two, three, or more times. If I have to try again, the menu adds to itself once for every time I have to try, a rather annoying occurrence since the menu now takes up the entire height of the screen instead of just a few lines. Once I uninstalled Launch Items X, the problem
went away."

IE 5.1 JavaScript bug follow-up Several readers have confirmed the item we posted last Friday on the IE 5.1 JavaScript bug. Jeff Porten's note is typical, he writes: "Regarding the IE JavaScript bug, I've seen it here too. It's apparently an issue in the window drawing routine, as you can make the message appear by dragging the window so it's mostly offscreen, then bringing it back."

Check Speed glitch in Toast 5.1.2 Julian Wright offers: "I think I've discovered a new bug in the latest Toast Titanium 5.1.2 update that wasn't there in previous versions. If you go to 'Check Speed' on the 'Utilities' menu, the 'Required for this track:' datarate number no longer changes when the 'Speed' popup is changed. On my system it's always at 1.2 MB/sec no matter what Speed setting is chosen. I've tested it on 3 Macs and in both Mac OS 9 and X. Toast Titanium 5.1.1, 5.0.1 and Toast Lite 5.0.1 & 5.0.2 all work okay."

Update: Brian Gillard adds: "I agree: the check speed dialog in the new Toast Update is innaccurate. What I have noticed is that some times it comes up at 600KB and some times it is 1.2MB and it does not change if the other settings are changed."

Dragging hard drive icon onto Dock a bad idea? Dick Huey reports that he was told by Apple level two tech support that placing a copy of your hard drive onto the Dock is a bad idea, as it can lead to problems. We suspect that Mr. Huey was given some bad advice from an Apple tech, as this is the first we've heard of such a caveat.