I just updated my Minefield installation, and one of the first things I noticed was the unusual spinning direction of the Throbber. I think, by spinning anti-clockwise, it's just distracting in the "Hey look, I'm so cool by being different!!!" sense. I believe it would be better if the Throbber spinned clockwise instead. I'm not sure if this also applies to Mac and Windows, but if it does, I think this should be changed in all platforms.

It spins counter clockwise while waiting for connections then clockwise while fetching data from the site.

dupe of bug 606037

Kevin, thanks for the explanation!