Oh Safari, why do you hate me?

[coley_merrin]

I have been so used to using Firefox that when the Mac came into my life, that I more or less ignored Safari as a whole and went straight to Firefox.

Then Firefox melted down during an update. ...This meltdown would be fixed by a simple restart.

I think my picture is next to the example in the "Wow, you're really lazy guidebook" next to "You know you're lazy WHEN - you don't want to restart your Mac."

Anyway. It wasn't all bad. I discovered a program that lets me customize my trackpad orders, so suddenly I can use the three finger swipe up/down to go to home/end of a webpage (in Safari...Firefox already allowed this) or to the top/bottom of a writing file in Scrivener. No more function + left and right! \o/ (not having home/end keys on this keyboard initially made me quite sad...then I forgot I ever had them)

...But now watching videos on Youtube makes Safari...or something related to Safari...make the router unhappy.

/tries Safari in a different mode then! Oh computers, you do like to make our lives interesting.

Comments

[rayneweather.livejournal.com]

I think this is the first time I have ever gone "huh??" while reading one of your posts. I'm clueless when it comes to Macs & computers in general. All I understood was the home/end keys part. Hopefully your router becomes happy; it's never a good day when they decide to have PMS.

[coley-merrin.livejournal.com]

I'm semi-clueless. I can do some things and others just make my head hurt. XD But I missed those home/end keys fiercely to start with. ;____;

And seriously, who allowed routers to have emotions? It's bad enough when I do. XD

[crystaltear.livejournal.com]

I think my picture is next to the example in the "Wow, you're really lazy guidebook" next to "You know you're lazy WHEN - you don't want to restart your Mac."

Or perhaps they have a picture of the two of us. I know we had this discussion recently. XD

[coley-merrin.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes. XD We have a few pics we can submit, too~

[mayawelstead.livejournal.com]

lol yeah I never want to restart for software updates xD I've never used anything other than a mac though ('cept at school), so home keys confuse me. :D

[coley-merrin.livejournal.com]

It's not like I lose anything, unless a tab expires or something on Firefox, lol. Sigh. Just a pain, I guess. XD I'm definitely enjoying the Mac~ It's been almost two years, and before that I only used a Mac at college, and I had to google how to copy. Ohh, apple button + c. (I changed this to control + c on my own laptop because getting to command was too hard. XD)

[mayawelstead.livejournal.com]

...where is your command key? because mine is right diagonal to the c... xD easier than control which would require my pinky to do something other than shift. I love my computer~

[coley-merrin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is right diagonal to the c. Do you use your ring finger then to hit command? I think I wasn't ready to change because on a PC it is control + c, so when I work on my work PC, I don't start hitting alt (which is where command is on the mac... so confusing!)

[mayawelstead.livejournal.com]

I use my left thumb for command, index for c. right thumb for space~ :) Lol I always end up hitting the wrong keys on a pc because I'm so used to my own keyboard. xD and I freak my friends out because I know a bajillion keyboard shortcuts so I can do almost everything without the trackpad. xD but I'm good with the trackpad so I don't really use them.

[coley-merrin.livejournal.com]

Ohh, okay. That makes sense. I clearly never learned "typing for Macs" haha. I wish I remembered more keyboard shortcuts. I still squint at the keyboard symbols and have to pull up a chart to figure out certain shortcuts. >.> But I can't do without home/end shortcuts... and the three finger swipe to the end of a web page is a life saver. D: I feel bereft without it. /lazy

[miakamouse.livejournal.com]

so wait... did you ever end up restarting? or are you just going to keep going thru diff modes of safari...

[coley-merrin.livejournal.com]

lol... I did end up restarting. And turns out I wouldn't have had to restart for Firefox...but all was fixed anyway. XD <3