Browser blues
The last few days, it seems that certain sites take forever to load in Firefox 2 for the Mac — especially the Boston Globe. Firefox freezes up once a day or so, too. So I played around with Safari 3...
View ArticleFlaking out with Firefox 3
For the past month or so I’ve been using Firefox 3 almost exclusively. I’m running version 3.0.4. And though it basically works fine, it does a few things that are flaky. Example: In just the past day...
View ArticleFirefox versus Safari versus Blogger
So I was enjoying my trial with Safari (for reasons that I can’t quite describe, it feels a little more nailed-down than Firefox 3) when I hit a roadblock: Blogger. I noticed a post I’d written with...
View ArticleCome on and Safari with me
Click on image for larger view Because I had a lot of writing to do yesterday, I indulged myself with some quality screwing-off time and installed Safari 5, the latest version of Apple’s Web browser. I...
View ArticleTuesday tech talk from a non-techie
Welcome to the tech blog whose author almost knows what he’s talking about. I know just enough to be dangerous, folks. Here are three tidbits for your Tuesday morning. 1. Beyond Google Reader. Last...
View ArticleThis morning’s BostonGlobe.com report
The next few weeks should be interesting as the folks at the Boston Globe work out the bugs at BostonGlobe.com. Starting last night, the site stopped working on my almost-four-year-old MacBook using...
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