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"Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:17 pm
by LigH
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Under Windows 7 SP1, I only see a placeholder for Unicode symbol U+1F5D9 (Cancellation X); I seem to miss a font which provides this symbol.

Re: "Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:20 pm
by useranon
I have this issue too. What feature is this supposed to be?

version 10.1.8.8
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0

Re: "Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:28 pm
by LigH
This seems to be a "drop zone" where you can drag&drop movable elements from a document, like images and videos.

Re: "Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:09 pm
by Giorgio Maone
LigH wrote:This seems to be a "drop zone" where you can drag&drop movable elements from a document, like images and videos.
No, it's a drop zone for the other buttons on the same strip, in order to let you customize the UI.

Re: "Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:51 am
by Quest
This was discussed long ago when this uni(que)-code gravestone appeared.
There were some problems with this (or whole menubar) then and at least one has survived:

When I run Firefox first time after rebooting the computer, the popup menu takes long time to appear (one time I measured 5 seconds). This is not a very big issue because it happens only then but still ...

Re: "Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:09 pm
by Giorgio Maone
Please check latest development build, thanks.
v 10.1.8.9rc2
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x Fixed externally handled resources opened in popups broken
by dynamic script injection (thanks rpr and paulmcg for
reporting)
x [Tor Browser, Linux] Replaced unicode glyphs not being
rendered on some browsers / platforms

x Prevent multiple canScript content messages during the same
page load

Re: "Drop here to hide": Unknown Unicode symbol

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2018 1:48 pm
by LigH
Yes, it displays a "Close" cross now. The position might be 2-3 px low, though.