Thursday October 21, 2004
I'm a Mac user - I expect everything to just work. So I get frustrated when it doesn't.
The default browser on the Mac is Safari, which is great. Except it's very keen on caching, or seems to be. Which, when you're doing web page development, is a pain in the thing you sit on (no, not the chair!).
So I decided to try out other browsers. Camino, from the Mozilla folks. Great browser, happy with this. Until I notice a random extra flashing cursor in all my pages. That can't be right... So I've tracked this down to a text input field "showing through" from a different tab - if, say, I'm composing a mail in google mail, and switch to a new tab, the wretched flashing cursor from the compose box is still showing in this new tab!
So, next stop, Firefox, being a Mozilla fan. Now, Firefox doesn't, unlike every other Mac browser, understand about the location based proxy settings that MacOS X has - it expects you to set your own proxy settings. A pain, when you're moving between work and home.
Opera? Doesn't work with gmail.
Omniweb? Doesn't work with gmail.
So I find myself in this limbo state of constantly switching between 3 different browsers - I really want to use Camino, but this flashing cursor just irritates the hell out of me :-(
Posted by ajt [Mac] ( October 21, 2004 12:53 AM ) Permalink Comments [2]
The default browser on the Mac is Safari, which is great. Except it's very keen on caching, or seems to be. Which, when you're doing web page development, is a pain in the thing you sit on (no, not the chair!).
So I decided to try out other browsers. Camino, from the Mozilla folks. Great browser, happy with this. Until I notice a random extra flashing cursor in all my pages. That can't be right... So I've tracked this down to a text input field "showing through" from a different tab - if, say, I'm composing a mail in google mail, and switch to a new tab, the wretched flashing cursor from the compose box is still showing in this new tab!
So, next stop, Firefox, being a Mozilla fan. Now, Firefox doesn't, unlike every other Mac browser, understand about the location based proxy settings that MacOS X has - it expects you to set your own proxy settings. A pain, when you're moving between work and home.
Opera? Doesn't work with gmail.
Omniweb? Doesn't work with gmail.
So I find myself in this limbo state of constantly switching between 3 different browsers - I really want to use Camino, but this flashing cursor just irritates the hell out of me :-(
Posted by ajt [Mac] ( October 21, 2004 12:53 AM ) Permalink Comments [2]
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