panic; and browsers

[quislibet]

Too much to do today and so much of it could have been done already and there was a good twenty minutes today when I thought I had lost the car-lease voucher and there are a few things I have to do online today and the dialup connection keeps going down so that makes everything take longer and I'm trying to back up my hard drive but the CD won't burn and I don't know why and why don't error messages tell you what exactly is wrong instead of just saying nope didn't work asshole and how the hell am I going to carry everything?

Unless I am fabulously successful in my endeavors and have free time between now and this time tomorrow, my next post of any real substance (not that this has any) will be several days from now, from Lisieux. Unless you hear that a Swiss flight from Boston to Zurich tomorrow night or one from Zurich to Paris Friday morning was abducted by aliens or something, in which case you needn't expect another post here at all.

In the meantime, ponder this: does anyone have a Mac OS X browser recommendation that works well for livejournal (or, I suppose, a client)? I have access to three: iCab, Safari, and Explorer 5.2 for Mac. The new update page makes iCab unable to deal with posting filtered posts and crashes Explorer completely; and different ones handle different aspects of using the LJ picture host with different degrees of success. Safari works for everything so far but is slow and hateful and clunky.

Comments

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

I use safari... microsoft doesn't work for me

[curtana.livejournal.com]

No good advice on the computer front, I'm afraid. But I wanted to wish you good luck with your move, and hope that any and all adventures will confine themselves to after your safe arrival! :)

[tk7602.livejournal.com]

*blink*

safari slow? clunky?

i find it to be pretty impressively quick. what sort of machine is it running on? on my G4800 it's just fine, and on my 2x1000G4 it would be hard to be faster :)

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

same here...

[julishka.livejournal.com]

i find safari gets slow if i've _also_ opened up explorer. to remedy that, restart your computer and do not start explorer. hehe. no, seriously, restart and don't start explorer, just safari.

oh yeah, dump the cache, too.

[mbayard.livejournal.com]

i have been using Explorer to read LJ and Safari to post. sad sad. :-/

good luck! things will be great. :~)

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

It's an iBook G4 running OS X 10.3.5, with a 1.07 GHz Power PC G4 processor and 512 MB DDR SDRAM.

But as I say, slow and clunky. It can take up to a full minute before I am assured it has registered my having clicked something.

[tk7602.livejournal.com]

something is definitely not right on that laptop...

i'm on an 800mhz g4 ibook now, with 10.3.5 and 640 megs of ram. i just quit safari and re-opened it (not the best test, but i don't want to reboot). it was 5 seconds until i had a useable browser.

[goat.livejournal.com]

I'm using an older mac at work, and don't have safari, can't use firefox.

My solution to this was using a client to update (Phoenix 1.9.2). I wish I could just use the update page, since I like that better.

Good luck with your move!

[christianb.livejournal.com]

yes, FIREFOX.

Firefox firefox firefox firefox. Best browser out there right now.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Make that a third on "whoah, something wrong there". Also use Safari on a G4 powerbook (with less RAM than the two above, though I keep meaning to upgrade), and it DEFINITELY is not clunky like that. Granted, I'm usually only running safari and chat together, but still.

[labyrinthman.livejournal.com]

Good luck and safe journeying!

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

YES! Firefox on OS X is fabulous. I can't really think of as problem i've had. Right when LJ updated the entry box i had a wierd date problem with the portal form; other than that i've been very happy.

Also, these extensions are good for LJ
* deepest sender - client that posts to LJ
* make link - highlight text & get a link to that URL with that text (silly, i thought, but now i love it)
* scribe - lets you save your web form entry to your hard drive

[frederic.livejournal.com]

What was recommended to me was using the portal which gets around the crashes when posting on Macs. I use Explorer with OSX.

http://www.livejournal.com/portal/

It's also neat since it tells you when your friends' birthdays are coming up...

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

Safe travels, my friend.

[kires.livejournal.com]

good luck on the whole going to france thing. i hope it works out well for you.

[klytaimnestra.livejournal.com]

I use Firefox. I also use the XJournal client. They work fine.