Possible design improvement.

In OS X the minimize button (yellow -) is right next to the close-window button (red x). With a slightly careless mis-click, it is easy to close, say Firefox, which deletes all the existing tabs. I realize that Cmd-H could be used instead of the minimize button, but I really prefer a GUI.
Also, sometimes a pop-up window appears so that two close-window buttons overlap, and with the magic slate, or whatever it's called, it is very easy to click twice and inadvertently close the backmost window.
That's probably considered a minor frustration, but it could be easily fixed in several ways, so I'd like to suggest that.
Hopefully Apple won't take this suggestion as an attack on them, because it's a legitimate technical suggestion, and I'm weary of having my posts here deleted.

Hopefully Apple won't take this suggestion as an attack on them, because it's a legitimate technical suggestion, and I'm weary of having my posts here deleted.
With due respect I'd recommend reading the Terms of Use located to your right. It's easy reading so you can understand, once you do then you should understand what may and may not be posted on these forums.

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A lot of cmds are too complex to remember, they can be simplier or resemble the name of the tool or option. Its makes a chore to follow this system and competition for the smart *** who memormized all the cmds.
The way in which you loose floating side boxes, and the amount of tools or names hidden in the bars sometimes seem random and its always a constant search to find them incase you forget where they are.
The inability to open cs4 or 5 files in cs3 is just beyond extremly annoying. Whey shouldn't you be able to open cs1 or 2 files or photoshop 9 files as well? Every five years work expires as well?
The layering system gets tricky and seems that a lot of things don't work when you normally move things. Its about going back, remembering and clicking on this or that, looking it up to make everything work. Sometimes which leaves you in a rut and wastes a good amount of time. You will always find this even after you've been using it for years.
The use of the fill paint/airbrushing, clone tool, lasso tool, pen tool, history being two steps back can be vastly improved to be much better to use
Masking and tools that have more complex features should find a way be automatically done or sampled. They can also have less complex steps and tha ability to be previewed, automatic or simpler ( in case you can't remember how to do something or aren't getting it)
A lot of the special effects, and blending modes are useless, outdated, super-ugly and don't resemble true darkroom effects ( such as polarization, and bas-relief for example) which they could much more vividly done. There also could be more options that are closer to repro cameras/CTP software for halftoning and more complex digital effects.
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I think the price encorages more piracy and allows people to not have a concept of what is means to owning software.
The loss of a manual or lessening of them for certain programs is a loss because it's always useful to physical info you can flip through while looking at your program.
I think adobe should make entirely better products for professionals or people in the industry rather than spoonfeeding the same software to all.
They should also make less expensive add-ons like before for graphic software.
What do you adobe could have improved over time and if so what do you think they could have improved on?

You have this wishform to suggest improvements to Adobe products:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
and the Creative Suites forums are here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creativesuites
This specific forum is only for discussions on the forums themselves, so you are not very likely to get any change by posting your comments here.

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3. Full functionality with CK-7W using the Pop Port connection.
4. Name order of contacts only applies to list. If you choose first name first, last name is still first on messages, and when searching, they are displayed correctly, but surnames are searched first, eg. searching for "S" brings up "John Smith", then "Sam".
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ClearData
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Disconnect
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SetData
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Pause
Stop
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I found one here: Extension Interface. In this, you create a base
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Disconnect
interface IDataTransferrable
GetData
SetData
interface IPlayable
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Pause
Stop
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class TypeB : IConnectable, IDataTransferrable, IPlayable
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here's one way:
if (ob is IPlayable)
Playback(ob);
where you have a function:
void Playback(IPlayable ob)

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The design seems fine.
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Software will not update anymore and Firefox browser in particular is now out of date and causing issues with gmail etc.
I could update to OSX 10.5, but the disks on ebay are not cheap - would this upgrade even improve things at all? or is here really no point?
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I really don't have the money for a new Mac and would love to keep this going a bit longer. ANY help with improving its performance would be much appreciated!
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        sex = s;
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