OSX 10.1.2 is out. Mozilla 0.9.7 is out.

I've noticed (at least in 10.1.1, we'll see if .2 fixes it) that when I try to connect to other machines on the appletalk LAN in the office, 10.1.1 won't see any machines that are asleep! That's not very convenient. In 9.x (and 8.x) you could hear all the machines wake up automatically when you look for available machines in the chooser. This isn't so bad for me since all the machines are physically close. I can just walk over and wake up the desired machine from its keyboard, but still...
- jim 12-22-2001 4:27 pm

Using 'connect to server' from the 'go' menu in the finder of 10.1.2 I am still not able to see sleeping 8.x or 9.x machines on the appletalk LAN. No other noticable differences in 10.1.2, but I don't use a lot of the stuff that is supposed to be updated (better firewire camera (?) support, irda support, better pc card support, etc.)

Mozilla is fine as well. The javascript controls are much finer grain. Instead of just having javascript on or off you can now have it on but with certain features turned off. Like pop under windows, or the ability for a page to mess with the status bar. Nice. Now if only they'd put the javascript on/off toggle in the top bar of the browser (I think icab does this.)
- jim 12-22-2001 8:01 pm


I didn't mention before - when I started using Moz 0.9.6 - that the best new feature is tabbed browsing. I used to use 'open in new window' all the time (in older Mozilla's and in Netscape.) This was good, but after a while you'd have so many windows open it would be hard to find the one you wanted. You can still do that post 0.9.6, but now there is an additional choice 'open in new tab...' which opens it in your same browser window but with a row of tabs visible under the toolbar. Clicking on a tab brings that window to the front. Here's a blurry screen shot of this page, with a mozilla page and slashdot opened in tabs. Not sure why, but this is much more efficient for me then having them in seperate windows. As you open more tabs each one gets smaller in width allowing for quite a few to be squeezed in before it becomes unworkable. This is actually a place where favicons really have some value. This tab thing feels like a windows type feature. Not sure why I suspect that. Anyway, I like it, so I don't care where it comes from.
- jim 12-22-2001 10:33 pm





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