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1) Does this mean more spam in my Gmail account?
2) Is there really a person named "Heembo" out there in the world, or is it really "Himbo" pronounced very carefully?
signed,
spent many moons thinking newscaster Tom Aspwell was Tom Asshole, because he did not enunciate his consonants clearly enough.
Sorry, forgot to mention that doesn't work. At least in Firefox - wait, it does work in Safari. OK, the Firefox folks must not have enabled it.
Firefox does not use the standard Mac OS X API in a lot of cases, because of the whole cross-platformness. Opera, on the other hand, actually seems to have a more OS-dependent codebase for each OS it supports, so it actually does use the standard OS X system calls. Anyway, this basically means Firefox won't support the text reading.
Camino, on the other hand, does. Still my favorite OS X browser, for this reason among others. Sadly, Camino still doesn't support the Tiger dictionary shortcut (if you haven't tried it - on many OS X applications, if you press Apple-CTRL-D, a dictionary will pop up that defines the word under the cursor. It's really cool.)
I could probably like Opera just as much, but something about its interface still bugs. I'm happy enough with Camino that I'm just not interested in playing with it to make me like it, I guess.
NVU looks nice -- from the screenshots, it's much more full-featured than Tacos.I liked it well enough. Enough that once I had it, I stopped looking for other options. I had tried Taco previously. I also downloaded NVU to a friend's machine when I gave them the lesson in really super basic html because it worked well but also was easy to work in.
Firefox 1.5 stability issues -- anyone here experiencing them?
anyone here experiencing them?
No, but I'm not using any plugins, either.
I haven't seen any of them either, and I have several extensions installed.
I've had the problem a lot where I click on the address dropdown box and select a web site, but nothing happens and I have to select it again. On both Mac and XP. I do have about four or six plugins on each of my computers with Firefox.
Haven't noticed any of the other problems. It seems to crash about as often as it did before. I haven't really watched CPU usage while loading a web page.
I've seen the task manager problem and there have been some times with the CPU usage spiked, but they don't happen very often. I have 12 extensions installed. I can't decide if I like the Pimpzilla theme or not.
I currently use slightly-less-than-legal versions of Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Quark. In an effort to clean up my act, I'm going to take advantage of FAQ Wife's academicness and get discounted, but fully legal, versions of the software.
Questions:
I'm thinking I'll just get the Adobe CS2 package, but maybe also get the Macromedia add-on, even though I'd mostly just use Dreamweaver from the latter (I'm not Flash savvy).
Huh. I'm surfing the web and watching CPU usage on my work XP machine (two point something Ghz, 1 Gig RAM.) Firefox does take more CPU than I think it should. When I go to scifi.com (which always has a shitload of animated graphics which pegs the CPU usage on my G3 iBook), the usage on my XP box is still averages around 70%. It seems to average around 30 % on IE 6.0.