I tried Opera and was never able to get the bookmarks to sync, and ran into problems with nonfunctional websites in the desktop version (more problems than I have with Safari, that is).

Interesting, Jessica.

Since I've got an extensive list of bookmarks, and I'm partial to my start page (I think Firefox does it too--the "blank" page if you don't have a home page is a series of web site tiles for instant access. So...already invested, no interest in migrating.

-t, have you ever synced successfully across desktops?

I did not know that about the 2 factor authentication, but then again, maybe I should. Now that I'm running my ecommerce (does anyone say that anymore) emails through a Gmail account to strip it of spam before the desktop (Irritatingly--I have one email address for purchases, and one for bill paying. I expect the former to get spam, fine. The latter--FUCK YOU. Clearly I trust you enough to pay you online, probably automated. Which one of you shits is taking advantage of that?)

Speaking of which, one of work's vendors started spamming me, and their unsubscribe method doesn't work. I've been trying for weeks to work out how to stop the 2 per day irrelevant marketing crap, and finally a person sent me an email, and I am not pulling any punches with my frustration. They have my address because I'm authorised to raise support tickets with them. You do not use that list of addresses to populate your "newswire" bullshit. Never mind broken unsubscription (the email address doesn't work, resulting in even more mail, as Exchange gleefully tells me how many times it's failed so far). I told him that it was sketch behaviour,, and that I considered them spammers, and also, BTW, fix unsubscribe.)

I suspect there's a way to fix the 2-factor thing, honestly I haven't looked that hard. But I also don't necessarily want the same tabs on my phone and my computer. Different environments, different uses.

-t, have you ever synced successfully across desktops?

With Opera? No, but I just have the one functional desktop now so I haven't tried, either. Back in my multiple computer having times I had Firefox and Safari synced up to my satisfaction, I think.

Different environments, different uses.

Ah, see--I want to carry a little bit of home with me when I leave the house (or caren't be arsed to go into the next room), whether it be pretty people or coding tips or online shopping. In fact, I bookmark a bunch of stuff for later review, and the ER with either tablet is the best place to work through that.

the 2-factor authentication thing is a PITA. I have it for gmail, but nothing else. I had it for dropbox, but it broke my access to dropbox, so I killed it there.

I have a question about how Google crawls. If you set up a website with no index file at the root, and various subdirectories with index.html files and no robots.txt files anywhere, how does Google find the subdirectories to index them?

We just opened a firewall to a site fitting the above description Sunday morning, and the sub-index.htmls were showing up on Google Monday morning.

We're not making that mistake twice. I've suggested robots.txt, but I don't know if that's going to happen.

In IIS at least, you can set the directories to allow a user to do a 'dir' or whatever of the current directory. Do you have that enabled?

I misstated in my post. There was an index.html. They set it up to look like t body . t /body so it's easy but not obvious to the eye that something's there. So, no links, and I'm assuming at that point you can't dir the directory, right?

those of you who like Pocket Frogs:

the update has landed!