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Is there a way to short-circuit Panther so the machine will skip past "Waiting for local disks" after a hard reboot, rather than waiting till **** freezes over?
Why can't "they" put an automatic cookies-on preference in whatever browser's bookmarks you wish? Default would be cookies off, so the next bookmark used would turn cookies off again. Or would this be Active-Xish? Duh, I dunno.
Why does anyone use any browser other than Mozilla? Even Mozilla's derivatives won't block any and all ads. An add-on toolbar for most Mozilla derivatives allows the user to kill popups and flash with mere clicks of the mouse. But only Mozilla will block with a right click any ad without resorting to that add-on block-by-ad-size kludge. Everything Mozilla creates and/or uses can be nuked from the library -- automatically with AppleScripts if you wish. Safari will never block ads, for the same reason Internet Exploiter won't. A pox on browser speed. Waiting a 10th of a second longer means nothing when the alternative is a huge flashing ad telling me I can optimize Windows.
Why do downloads sometimes create new full-screen browser windows loaded with the downloading app's code, forcing the user to close the window and start the download again with the option key down? It's not a Mozilla-only phenomenon because it happened in OS 9 before Mozilla was a sparkle in Netscape's eye.
When will Apple paper over permissions ****? It's almost as big a pain as the registry in Windows. An hour before I posted this, the internet went off-limits. Ten minutes before, the connection was fine. I rebooted in 9, and was online immediately. Back in X, I ran Disk Utilities' permissions repair, and was plugged into the world once more. Permissions are X's glass jaw.
/Deep Thoughts
Why can't "they" put an automatic cookies-on preference in whatever browser's bookmarks you wish? Default would be cookies off, so the next bookmark used would turn cookies off again. Or would this be Active-Xish? Duh, I dunno.
Why does anyone use any browser other than Mozilla? Even Mozilla's derivatives won't block any and all ads. An add-on toolbar for most Mozilla derivatives allows the user to kill popups and flash with mere clicks of the mouse. But only Mozilla will block with a right click any ad without resorting to that add-on block-by-ad-size kludge. Everything Mozilla creates and/or uses can be nuked from the library -- automatically with AppleScripts if you wish. Safari will never block ads, for the same reason Internet Exploiter won't. A pox on browser speed. Waiting a 10th of a second longer means nothing when the alternative is a huge flashing ad telling me I can optimize Windows.
Why do downloads sometimes create new full-screen browser windows loaded with the downloading app's code, forcing the user to close the window and start the download again with the option key down? It's not a Mozilla-only phenomenon because it happened in OS 9 before Mozilla was a sparkle in Netscape's eye.
When will Apple paper over permissions ****? It's almost as big a pain as the registry in Windows. An hour before I posted this, the internet went off-limits. Ten minutes before, the connection was fine. I rebooted in 9, and was online immediately. Back in X, I ran Disk Utilities' permissions repair, and was plugged into the world once more. Permissions are X's glass jaw.
/Deep Thoughts