number 9

This mornings WebKit nightly build rendering the Acid3 test:

 And look! Firefox painted me a beautiful picture too:

 That’s lovely, sweetheart. 

Guess who’s not regretting switching a couple of months back.To be fair, Opera apparently scores very highly too (both its users must be delighted). 

Firefox and me have been best friends for years, but lately it’s been messing me around.

Clint, what’s Russian for ‘just fire the fucking missile’?

I’m on a PowerPC OS X machine, and if I don’t shut it down overnight it’s leaked all free memory by the morning.
Plus it tends to sit and drool just when an auction is about to close, or a Wii turns up on game.co.uk, or you
just want do some work.

Firefox 3 fills me with dread.
I’ve heard it will be ‘faster, stabler and with more features’ which is a ‘pick 2’ situation if ever I heard one.

going native

Another reason used to be cross platform muscle memory, but I’m due a new laptop soon, and it’ll be a Mac
(because it’s the best laptop OS, that’s why. You may disagree, but you are wrong, please don’t waste everyones time saying so out loud).

I’ve tried Safari a few times, but there are a few things it can’t do that I need.

1. del.icio.us integration
2. your homepage can be multiple tabs (so they all open ot once)
3. keyword support (the real must have)

Today, Firefox forced my hand by breaking its own del.icio.us extension. The keyboard shortcuts no longer work, which for me means it might as well not exist.

exit strategy

I’ve fixed all the showstoppers above like this.

1. just use the standard del.icio.us bookmarklet
2. make a ‘hometabs’ bookmark folder and enable ‘Auto-click’. This loads all the folder contents, one per tab,
   when you click the folder name
   • (’Bookmarks → Bookmark all these N tabs’ does the same thing, but it’s easier to edit a folder)
3. use Sogudi

Sogudi was the real saviour here. I’ve found several projects that claim to do the same thing, but they either
involve hacking the search box or (shudder )the binary. More importantly, they just hack the ‘Google’ search box., instead of the location bar.

Runs fine on Leopard, and converting
all my Firefox keywords
just involved choosing ‘Safari → Sogudi’ and pasting them in.
Just remember to replace all the ’%s’ with ‘@’.

does whatever a spider can

Ceri also recommended Webkit . It’s a drop-in
nightly build of the new rendering engine, which is handy if you need to raise bugs etc.

It’s a lot less daunting than that sounds.
Shows up as a second Safari icon you can click to run Safari under it
(generally when the main icon is having trouble with a particular page).

I’m on Ubuntu for most stuff (though I escaped from GNOME a while back). Here’s a question:

Why does totem think it can play any content at all?

Whenever I go to a webpage with quicktime/real/anything video, it pops up “Totem could not play ‘fd://0’”.

Totem, we know. As we’ve established, you are fucking useless. The only shame is that you persist in trying.

Mplayer can play any video format ever, from the command line, with about 30 alternative output mechanisms for audio and video (watching star wars in an xterm is highly recommended).

Rather than put this in the base, Ubuntu decided it would be more fun to have me
alternate between swearing at ‘plugger’ and resorting to ‘view source’ and wget.

So, if you’d like to watch video on ubuntu, you need to:

1. enable the ‘multiverse’ repo
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install mplayer mozilla-mplayer
4. sudo apt-get remove totem-mozilla

Then go to the mplayer site ,download the right ‘Binary Codec Packages’ for your architecture (these work on any UNIX). It untars to make a folder called something like:
’essential-20061022’ – rename that to /usr/lib/win32 and you’re done.

No idea how to get quicktime and realplayer to do the same,