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Bye Firefox 2.0!

A few days ago, Mozilla released it's final version of Firefox 2.0.  With that, Dawdle will no longer be officially supporting Firefox 2.0 for use on our site (as you should be using Firefox 3 anyway).  Old video games and video game systems are cool.  Old browsers?  Not so much.

What's New Monday, November 10

The Dawdle team has decided that we're going to post site changes onto the blog as a way to keep our faithful followers informed of what's new.  Though some changes happen in the background that a typical user would not notice, some updates do deal with what a "Dawdler" would see on the site.

Here are some of the changes from today:

• Printing something you sold used to look kind of weird because it carried a page default header and footer.  That's been removed so when you "Print Shipping Info" it should look clean and smooth.
• Who knew the original "Xbox" was still so popular?  "Xbox" games have been selling like hotcakes recently, so it's earned a spot in the top platform bar near the top of every page on Dawdle.
• Here at Dawdle, we strive to reach the ideal that if it doesn't make the experience better, we shouldn't have it.  The "auto complete" function in the search bar has been a topic of much debate among the members of the Dawdle team.  It just didn't seem to work well enough, so we've pulled it... for now.  The Development Team will work on making it work more effectively, and hopefully we'll have it back and better than ever in the near future.
• SERP's and SEO!  We already know you know about Dawdle and what you can find here, but we want EVERYONE to know about Dawdle.  One of the ways we do that (other than word of mouth, so we hope you tell ALL of your friends about us) is to make our Product Pages and Search Engine Result Pages more friendly to outside Search Engines.  Page Titles, Meta Descriptions, and <h1> text have all been updated on Product Pages and SERP's in the hopes that more people will discover just how awesome Dawdle is.  We've also modified the SERP to provide you with more useful information so you'll know more about the lowest priced listing without having to click on it.  If you've got any ideas on how we can make it even better, we're all ears!
• It was kind of annoying to start filling out your registration to Dawdle only to find that clicking on "Terms and Conditions" navigated you away from the page you were working so hard to complete.  Now clicking the link (So you know what you're getting into.  You all read those, right?) will open the "Terms and Conditions" in another window or tab.

Well, that's it for now.  Remember, if there's anything you'd like to see on Dawdle to make your experience here better, just drop us a line at team@dawdle.com or visit us at Uservoice.