Firefox has crashed. Would you like to restore session or lose EVERYTHING you were just doing?
You have selected to Restore Session. Firefox is now going to ignore you, and start a new session anyway.
Firefox: working at the speed of Firefox has stopped responding. Would you like to: Close this application? Wait for it to respond?
I've come up for a perfect name for a Pidgin-killer: Peregrine.
Peregrine falcons are natural predators of pigeons. Plus, it doesn't appear that anyone has used this name for anything software-related.
Update: Almost all the complaints in this post have been resolved in later Pidgin versions.
Apparently the Pidgin designers are retarded. The Pidgin UI has slowly been getting worse and worse as it tries to closely follow the GNOME philosophy of "our users are morons."
Let's take a look at the new Pidgin chat window. I've annotated it in red (craptastic text anti-aliasing by GIMP):
I've gotten my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I hope someone got a chuckle out of the various possible events listed on this site, although that would involve people actually reading the site so it probably remains as a silly little joke between me and my brother. Still, it was fun thinking them up.
In any case, here's the complete list of items.
In the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter...
In the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter camps out in line in an to attempt to buy all copies of the latest Harry Potter book by Rita Skeeter.
In the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter is about to defeat Voldemort, when the server crashes and is reset.
In the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter dies, only to be suddenly revived by an angry Warner Brother (Wakko) intent on an eighth movie. (Page 882.)