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09.10.08
Posted in Applications, Technology at 9:43 pm by Ben
This is more of a “anyone know what might be the problem?” post. I recently tried upgrading to Firefox 3 on my laptop, a 2006 MacBook Pro. The problem is that I can’t start Firefox. It continually crashes. Even in safe-mode. I even tried removing my old Firefox user profiles and starting with a new one. Still no go. So is anyone aware of why Firefox 3 continues to crash? Anyone have any tips on how to troubleshoot this?
*Update*: I just recently moved to using my laptop as my primary machine (~90%). To do this I used the excellent Migration Assistant. I basically overwrote my hardly-used user account on my laptop with my desktop’s user account. But I hadn’t upgraded to Firefox3 on the laptop wheras I had on my desktop. And it turns out Firefox 2 user accounts are not compatible with 3, thus causing much crashing and never starting after I tried to update Firefox on my laptop! So I just logged into my old desktop and copied over all the ~/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox files to my laptop into the proper location. And everything now works.
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07.30.08
Posted in Design, Technology at 10:07 pm by Ben
webkit browsers have a cool CSS animation part. Shaun Inman is experimenting with it. Now imagin imagine a site where, to see new content you just rotate the page. It’s kind of a mind-blowing experience to see and envision how this may be used someday in the future. Also note that the text in the experiment is entirely selectable.
Update: corrected mispelling of imagine. Can you imagine that?
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07.22.08
Posted in Technology at 10:11 pm by Ben
Please read this article. (h/t Francis Cheng) Right now I’m in the midst of trying to build a simple photo gallery in Flash. Although I catch glimpses of what ActionScript 3 is capable of, too often I find myself struggling against it. It shouldn’t be this hard. For a tool that was originally built to allow easy animation and interactivity on the web, Flash has certainly strayed far from those simple beginnings. I hope that Adobe is figuring out a good way to bring us not-so-programmy-types back into the fun of Flash. Because right now I’m not having fun…
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