Wednesday, 5. August 2009, 17:04:34
Squarespace, Internet Explorer, Opera
This is my third day of using the Opera 10 beta as my default browser. I'm working toward uninstalling Firefox, but I've hit a major glitch. I use Squarespace for my main blog. It's awesome. But I can't export my blog data using Opera. I've tweaked and tweaked the settings, from pop-ups, to content, to JavaScript and identification/masking, and it just won't let me export.
To make things worse, I can't export using IE 7, either. I've added my site to the trusted sites zone. I've added *.squarespace.com to trusted sites, too. And I've set the security settings for that zone to "low". I haven't gone in and tweaked individual security settings, in part because trial and error would take a frustrating amount of time.
If any of you use or have used Squarespace, and can tell me what I need to tweak in order to make either browser work with this function, I'd greatly appreciate whatever advice you can offer.
Tuesday, 28. July 2009, 03:18:05
Opera
I'm running Opera 10 Beta 2. It's fast, it's super-quiet. It's got SIM Aquarium, and a light-weight Twitter widget. It allows me to forbid JavaScript across the board, then enable it for specific sites, sort of like Firefox with NoScript installed. And yet, I find myself using Firefox as my workhorse, with Opera as a backup; or for times like now, when my PC's resources and I just need a break.
Here's why: If I run Opera with JavaScript enabled across the board, I'm obviously vulnerable. If I run Opera with JavaScript disabled, I can't use my Opera widgets. That means not only missing out on gazing at the quiet beauty of SIM Aquarium, but having to run some other, more memory-hungry, quite likely AIR-based Twitter app alongside Opera, which totally harshes my low-resource-usage buzz.
I know -- and if you're reading blogs on My Opera, I'm guessing you do, too -- that out-of-the-box Opera is more secure than out-of-the-box Firefox. But, in order to get the perfect blend of security and functionality, Opera needs a way to separate the JavaScript preferences for widgets from that for surfing the web.
And I wish that would happen soon. It seems to me that, while Firefox is actually getting less secure, Opera is constantly improving. I'd love to have Opera as my default browser by the end of the year.
Sunday, 25. December 2005, 22:08:14
They don't seem to happen when uploading JPGs. The PNG file I've been trying to upload for days now... well, that's another story.
Sunday, 25. December 2005, 13:54:19
Sunday, 25. December 2005, 03:44:33
"Proxy Error".
I've tried numerous times today to upload an image. It's not overly large; only 2xx kb. Every time, I get the following error message:
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request...
Maybe later. But then it'll be too late for Christmas...
(On the other hand, the posting tool here at My Opera is just spiffy!)
Saturday, 24. December 2005, 02:03:54
I would blog here, if I didn't already have too much blogging to keep up with. The photo albums are nice, though. And I plan to use them to capacity, as soon as either the small town I live in gets back on Kodak's development route, or someone buys me a digital camera (you catch that, Santa Claus?), whichever comes first.
WIDGETIZE