You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.

Glory ,'The Killer In Me'


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tommyrot - Aug 21, 2006 5:56:28 am PDT #8663 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Grrrrrr. DTA doesn't work on the site I need it for. Oh well.

There are several versions of DTA. I don't remember what the difference is between the versions. Anyway, you might want to poke around and try another version or maybe some other similar extension.


Jessica - Aug 21, 2006 6:00:17 am PDT #8664 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm pretty sure it's the website, but I'll try out the other versions and see if that helps.


tommyrot - Aug 21, 2006 6:10:03 am PDT #8665 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

ION, Writely no longer requires an invitation to sign up.

eta: Writely is a web-based word processor that allows you to access your documents from any location with internet access. What seems to me to be the most useful feature is that it allows online collaboration.


DXMachina - Aug 21, 2006 6:55:38 am PDT #8666 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Firefox extensions I like:

AdBlock

Linkification (makes links out of plain text URLs)

Dictionary Search (right click to look up word in another tab)

LiveJournal Hook (right click to access formatting tags when posting to LJ)


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2006 7:02:33 am PDT #8667 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The extension thing is what scared me off Firefox. I didn't like the idea of having to go hunt to customise the browser. It's obvious that with good extensions the functionality exceeds that of Opera. But I'm lazy, and out of the box Opera already does enough of that stuff that I just can't be arsed.

Yet, Firefox has the alt!browser excitement, and Opera a sliver of the market share. I don't care who else uses Opera--I'm just scared it will go away.


Theodosia - Aug 21, 2006 7:27:58 am PDT #8668 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I think I'm going to split the difference, and use Firefox on my iBook, and Opera on the work computers.


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 7:29:33 am PDT #8669 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Opera is pretty good, I use it sometimes. I keep coming back to Firefox though.


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2006 7:31:07 am PDT #8670 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I keep coming back to Firefox though.

What about it draws you back? I use Firefox when I need to be logged in somewhere (like LJ, perhaps) as two different users. But, like you, I keep drifting back to my other browser.


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 7:36:22 am PDT #8671 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

What about it draws you back?

Nothing in particular. I like the way the mouse gesture works with the Firefox extension than the built-in gestures in Opera. I like the look of the UI a little better (or a lot better in GNOME). I think Opera just as good as Firefox, it's just a personal preference.


sumi - Aug 21, 2006 11:20:02 am PDT #8672 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

OMG, my printer is totally not working.

First: it was printing fine earlier today, then I put a new toner cartridge in and the test page printed find. Since then -- no printing. It's a little deskjet 5650 and pushing the on/off button has no effect, neither did unplugging it or restarting my computer. There is no paper jam.

Why does it hate me?