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How come you can't open a pdf on a Mac on a browser?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1416842"><p>"although it's really better to just get used to how things are done on a Mac rather than trying to get it to work like Windows"</p><p></p><p>Bears repeating.</p><p></p><p>When "natural" scrolling first came out I *hated* it. I mean I thought it was the worse move Apple had made in YEARS. So I turned it off.</p><p></p><p>Later, when I had finished a busy project, I thought to myself, "you know, there's got to be a reason Apple added this feature and made it the default. They have rarely led me astray, so I'm going to give it a real chance."</p><p></p><p>Turned it back on, suffered for a few minutes (about 20 or so) and then my brain "flipped the switch" and it really was natural. There's no way I would go back now, and it feels terribly awkward when I have to use someone else's computer (but perfectly "natural" when I'm using any kind of mobile device, which is where the "natural" scrolling comes from in the first place).</p><p></p><p>As for your pinky, control-c is something that I would think would be exceedingly rare in normal Mac use so that's probably not much of an issue. And once you get in the habit of genuinely quitting programs rather than closing them you'll again find that much more natural (and kinder to your RAM and other resources). Having used computers from back when RAM was scarce, I have always been in the habit of quitting programs the minute I was done with them anyway.</p><p></p><p>These days, when programs re-launch in about a second, I can see no real advantage of leaving them open all the time, particularly in low-RAM situations. A side benefit is that programs never re-launch on their own on the rare occasion when I restart or log out/log back in to the Mac, since they were all quit properly before shutting down or restarting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1416842"] "although it's really better to just get used to how things are done on a Mac rather than trying to get it to work like Windows" Bears repeating. When "natural" scrolling first came out I *hated* it. I mean I thought it was the worse move Apple had made in YEARS. So I turned it off. Later, when I had finished a busy project, I thought to myself, "you know, there's got to be a reason Apple added this feature and made it the default. They have rarely led me astray, so I'm going to give it a real chance." Turned it back on, suffered for a few minutes (about 20 or so) and then my brain "flipped the switch" and it really was natural. There's no way I would go back now, and it feels terribly awkward when I have to use someone else's computer (but perfectly "natural" when I'm using any kind of mobile device, which is where the "natural" scrolling comes from in the first place). As for your pinky, control-c is something that I would think would be exceedingly rare in normal Mac use so that's probably not much of an issue. And once you get in the habit of genuinely quitting programs rather than closing them you'll again find that much more natural (and kinder to your RAM and other resources). Having used computers from back when RAM was scarce, I have always been in the habit of quitting programs the minute I was done with them anyway. These days, when programs re-launch in about a second, I can see no real advantage of leaving them open all the time, particularly in low-RAM situations. A side benefit is that programs never re-launch on their own on the rare occasion when I restart or log out/log back in to the Mac, since they were all quit properly before shutting down or restarting. [/QUOTE]
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