After it was announced that V6.2 had some UI changes I decided to install it and give it another go. Although the new summary screen is a welcome addition, V6 could still do with some improvements, which to me seem like just logical/basic UI design.
When opening Comodo windows in full screen mode (On Win 7 upwards dragging the window to the top of the monitor you want it to display full screen on), if your task bar is set to Auto-hide it isn’t possible to access the taskbar anymore by moving your mouse to the bottom of the screen to show it.
When using the mouse scroll wheel in Application rules, etc. it scrolls too much at a time. One mouse wheel position jumps half a page at a time, so I have to resort to the old fashioned way of dragging the scroll bar.
I’ve attached some screen shots to show the following, as it’s easier to see it on a screenshot, but here’s a summary:
Firewall alerts (Pic 01):
When you click on the application name in a Firewall Alert, the properties dialogue box appears behind the alert box completely hiding it from view. You have to drag the alert box out of the way in order to see it.
Application rules, Network Zones and Port Sets (Pic 02):
If you expand application rules, when you exit and re-enter they are all collapsed again
There is no way to expand all/collapse all rules like you could in V5 (by clicking on the top bar)
If you adjust the column widths, when you exit and re-enter the column widths aren’t remembered and go back to default
Network Zones and Port Sets (Pic 03, Pic 04):
It’s not possible to re-arrange Network Zones and Port Sets. New Zones/Portsets are just added to the bottom of the list with no way of moving or re-arranging them
Log Files (Pic 05):
If you adjust the column widths, when you exit and re-enter the column widths aren’t remembered and go back to default
ARP Log Events:
There doesn’t appear to be a way to disable logging of blocked ARP requests (see last screenshot of firewall logs (Pic 05) for an example).
So, all in all I don’t hate V6.2, it’s just annoying that such basic things have been over-looked and ‘looking pretty’ seems to have become more important than functionality. Apart from that, I quite like it.
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