Chromium/SRWare Iron Niceties
16-Feb, 2010
I’ve been playing around with SRWare Iron as a possible Firefox replacement and I must say, I’m pretty impressed. SRWare Iron is based upon the Chromium browser and sets itself apart from Google Chrome by implementing privacy options built right into the browser. One feature that I particularly like is how the Chromium browser shows the relative location of search terms found throughout a given web page. Although the search terms are highlighted in the actual page (“hacker” in this example), this clever feature provides useful information in existing, normally unused space.
Google Gears Needs Some WD-40
17-Aug, 2009
I continue to loathe my love-hate relationship with Google. Recently, after several NeoOffice crashes and outbursts of colorful metaphors, I created a Google Docs SSB via Fluid in hopes to create a light-weight, word processing app. Well, my colorful metaphors were running out of colors — and I have the 64-box of Crayolas.
If there was ever a “cloud-based” app that needed offline access it’s Google Docs, IMO, with Gmail coming in a close second. In a nutshell is a nut. Seriously, in a nutshell, I tried enabling Google Gears in three different browsers — all of which gave me errors when trying to enable offline access in Google Docs. How many browsers was that? Three.
- Fluid 0.9.6 – An error occurred while updating software. Failed to update software for the applications: Docs Home page, Google Spreadsheets
- Firefox 3.5.2 – An error occurred while syncing documents. Failed to sync document metadata for the Docs Home page.
- Safari 3.2.1 – An error occurred while updating software. Failed to update software for the applications: Docs Home page, Google Spreadsheets
A Google Docs help search confirmed the issue, but the last time I checked, I had US English set as my default language. So…what now? Squeak, squeak.
I can confirm Google Gears does work for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs with a work-around package built as a courtesy to Mailplane users and the Mac community. It’s a workaround until an official solution is made available. Click on the button that says, “I agree and start download.”
Orange UK Must Use IE6
9-Jul, 2009
The Register slapped up a post informing us that Orange UK exiles Firefox from call centres. You know it’s good journalism when they spell centers “funny” in the title. Dear, Jenny. If I had to use IE6 at work…and nothing else, I would politely ask the support technician sitting next to me to…oh, I don’t know…jam a meat thermometer in my ear! Seriously, IE6 is that bad.
Two words: portableapps.com firefox.
