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posted by [personal profile] fallon_ash at 04:02pm on 29/08/2008 under ,
I don't get why everyone is so crazy over Mozilla Firefox. I'm currently using it out of necessity because Internet Explorer is just plain sucky, and Opera currently hates me. I love Opera. I love everything about it except for one thing. It eats CPU. Every half-hour or so I gotta shut it down and re-start because it's eaten all my CPU and all my allocated internal memory whatever it's called. If not for that tiny teeny little detail Opera is awesome, it loads faster than anything else, doesn't re-load when you hit [back], has that nifty speed dial thing, and never gives me grief about having 20 tabs at once saved from one session to the next. So now I'm stuck with Mozilla. Which takes just as long to hit [back] as it does to load a new page, and has the most annoying habit of forgetting my settings and erasing my browser history, which is unforgivable, and the colours are ugly. I do like the new feature in Firefox3 when you type in just about anything in the address field and it gives you the most relevant matches from your browser history, be they beginning of URL, or mid, or from the page title itself. And it would have been even more awesome if *it could remember my browser history*. Bah. I'm so dependant on my tabs and my browser history it's ridiculous. I never bother with bookmarks because I'm used to Opera where I had speed dial, and then everything else important was in my tabs. Remembering tabs is everything. I had a bunch of LJ post from the last day I was gonna comment on, a few articles I was gonna re-read, and a fic I hadn't finished. Which wouldn't have been a big problem if I'd had my browser history from the last 24 hours, but I DON'T. Argh! Are there any good obscure browsers out there that anyone can recommend me?

In other news, I dug up Christina's scene from Million Dollar Baby, where she gets her ass whupped by Hilary Swank. I know Hilary Swank is the lead, and it's supposed to be about her winning, and so on and so forth, but I'm all Grrrr... Git yer hands off mah woman, Oscar Winner... Of course, then Lucia Rijker showed up and beat up on Hilary Swank, and I was pleasantly assuaged by memories of her and Helena having a fine old time in that cell of theirs... Yum.
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posted by [identity profile] thedimholt.livejournal.com at 03:37pm on 29/08/2008
I've actually never had those problems, with neither the windows nor linux versions. Perhaps something went awry with your installation?

I've never though about the [back] thing, but I don't think my FF reloads, as I can go back fine even if I've broken the internet connection. I've had no problems with using many tabs at once (and I've had many), nor with it remembering which ones until next start-up (though I've used that remember-my-tabs setting for quite a while, now). Have you activated the remember tabs setting? And no loss of browser history.

Hmm, now that I look at the browser history for FF3, it doesn't look the same as for FF2 (when it was neatly sorted into days). I'll look around and see if I can find anything out.

Re: colours - find yourself a nice theme! ;-)
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 09:13pm on 29/08/2008
Well, it's been working fine for a few days, but today it's been all screwed up. And FF2 was the same way (and I did change the settings to 'don't delete sensitive material when closing'), every few days, or week, it would differ, suddenly everything would just be gone. Argh.

Until you've tried Opera and hit the [back] thing you'll never realize the difference. It still backs, even when I've lost the connection, but it does take a significantly longer time. Not significantly longer, maybe, but noticably longer. In Opera, it's just *there*. Right there. Like flipping the pages of a book.

All the FF3 themes are ugly! They haven't made any nice themes for it yet. I've currently got the iFox smooth, or whatever, but it's plain and gray and boring. I had a really nice green-ish theme for FF2, and I've got a lovely red one for Opera, but all the FF3 ones are either black or ugly.
 
posted by [identity profile] thedimholt.livejournal.com at 10:16pm on 03/09/2008
That is so weird - I've never had any of those problems.

Agree on the themes, though... though I actually found a compatible version of (a version of) my old favourite: Brushed (Gradient Brushed Metal).
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 10:31pm on 03/09/2008
I've been keeping track, and something similar seems to happen pretty much every time I install something new and Mozilla has to re-start. Only then my tabs and browser history show back up if I re-start the entire computer, as opposed to when they're just randomly gone, then they're gone. It's very very weird. And the same thing happens to my computer every few days, when I start it up, it's forgotten my layout/sounds settings, and it's back to looking like XP, and makes annoying noises...

Oh, btw, ever played Wink? It's adorable.
http://games.yahoo.com/free-games/wink-the-game;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDNDExBHNlYwNscG8Ec2xrA1doYXQgV29yZA--
 
posted by [identity profile] thedimholt.livejournal.com at 11:30pm on 03/09/2008
In that case, I think it might be more of a computer problem than a FF problem. ;-) Tried reinstalling XP?

Nope. But CUTE. Just spent a few minutes (half an hour? gah) on it. Now I gotta fins some lightning staff. Bah. And I died. Time for bed...
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 08:17am on 04/09/2008
Isn't it frickin' adorable? Hmm. Lightning staff. I think there's one when you're walking the top of the wall outside the castle, and then there's one right inside that door, but you gotta hang on to it for a good long while. Man, this game is too cute. And that noise he makes when he runs? Someone commented on a forum that it was annoying. I don't understand it, it's totally cute.
 
posted by [identity profile] thedimholt.livejournal.com at 02:46pm on 09/09/2008
No, it's very totally cute! :-D I found a site that allowed you to save games, but it seems to be a bit buggy... The first few times the dragon disappeared, and when I figured out what to do (reload the game), I can't seem to kill it. Nothing I do makes it lose health (and it's suppose to work if you shoot it, I've googled it :-P). Annoying.

Have you played Samorost? It's short and really psychodelic. Very cute. The sequel is better (more thought-through and more tricky), but I totally recommend both! :-D
http://amanita-design.net/samorost-1/
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 09/09/2008
Well, if you're gonna shoot at it, as far as I understand, you gotta hit specific points where he's weak. And he loses very little health if you shoot him. You gotta listen to the princess. Climb up the pillars, jump on his back and pull his ears.

eta: just tried it, and indeed it was very cute. Little too complicated for my tastes. I like my problems in black and white with a straight-forward beginning and end. Pretty much exactly like Shift. Those are fun! My favourite is probably 2.

http://armorgames.com/play/964/shift-2
Edited Date: 2008-09-09 03:11 pm (UTC)
 
posted by [identity profile] thedimholt.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 11/09/2008
When I tried jumping on his back last time, nothing worked. I'll give it another go, though. Sometime. :-P

Samorost has a straight forward beginning and end! Amazingly so, actually. I'll take a look at Shift, though!
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 08:42am on 12/09/2008
But it doesn't. You have to spontaneously click everything at random until you figure out how it all belongs together. (Kinda like how Shift 3 is too complicated because there are inter-connecting rooms and you gotta do stuff in other rooms to get things to happen in the first. Too complex.)

Strange with the dragon. I mean, it took a few tries for me to figure out how not to get really really killed by him before I had time to jump on his back, but if you're on the top platform on the pillars he can't reach you, and then you jump as close as his head as possible and hit A to pull.
 
posted by [identity profile] thedimholt.livejournal.com at 11:11am on 18/09/2008
Shift 1 was nice (quick :-P), Shift 2 is a bit too complicated for my tastes. Escpecially since I can't find anywhere to save the game, which means you have to start from the beginning everytime you've restarted the computer and such. Gah.

I'm quite fond of this one at the moment: http://armorgames.com/play/505/sonny
Zombiefighting on a simple level, nice. And with a backstory.
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 11:22am on 18/09/2008
You sure there's no way to save?? I feel like there's a save-option on Shift 2... I know that there is one on Shift 3 (I've used it).

Sonny is too much thinking and talking for me... I've been playing a bit of this lately: http://armorgames.com/play/2091/the-egg :P
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 09:15pm on 29/08/2008
Thanks, I'll check it out!
 
posted by [identity profile] mandysbitch.livejournal.com at 02:00am on 30/08/2008
Grrrr... Git yer hands off mah woman, Oscar Winner...

Heh heh heh...

Also, we know Christina can totally kick Hilary Swank's arse. Hilary should totally thank Christina for making her look good (and not hurting her pretty face).
 
posted by [identity profile] fallon-ash.livejournal.com at 07:44am on 30/08/2008
She totally could. I'm sort of firmly in the corner of 'Christina could kick *anybody's* arse! Bring it on, Vin Diesel! (or macho stunt people)'. There's a pretty funny interview where she talks about how she had this mantra in her head Don't hit the Oscar Winner, Don't hit the Oscar Winner..., and they just kept saying 'Harder!'. So she did. But of course now I can't find it.

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