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[May. 1st, 2009|11:28 pm] |
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I don't know what the hell DJ's done to itself, but for some reason it's now managing to give me 403s when I load anything related to the website in IE (It still works fine in FireFox and Chrome). This irritates me, because the update page's Javascript doesn't play nice with my FireFox extensions somehow (it confuses itself into thinking I've logged out even though I haven't), so I've used IE View's "Always view in IE" to load the page into a different browser with a single click.
Unfortunately, that ability has been broken. So after waiting hopefully for a couple of days in the belief that it would mysteriously fix itself in the same way that it mysteriously broke, I finally decided to switch the application being used to Chrome. Unfortunately, I don't like Chrome all that much, despite admiring its technical innovation (which is unusual for me, I'm something of a Google fangirl); as with iTunes, it doesn't play nice with GridMove, and I have no idea where any of the options are since they've disguised the toolbars (which is why I'm still running IE6). But at least the update page works.
I might actually make a further switch and change the thing to Opera, which doesn't have the problems I've complained about for Chrome. But not tonight, Josephine.
In the process, I discovered that Bianca's copy of Chrome is installed in a retarded location; I don't know which version she's running (or who's fault it was), but it's been installed to something along the lines of:
C:\Documents and Settings\Mm\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\application.exe. WTH?
(When I recited this to Andrew Harkness, he said "Whatever happened to good old Program Files\Google\Chrome?")
Connor's, on the other hand, uses the more common path:
C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Don't ask me what the hell the difference is; I have a feeling one's running the beta and one the stable, but I'm blowed if I can remember which is which.
In vaguely related news, I now have Dreamwidth account, but more or less don't plan to use it unless people actually migrate over there (and even then, possibly not). I'll probably wait till they implement imports from DeadJournal, (they already support imports from LiveJournal) - and then cross post (they have a button for "automatically cross post this"). But that's a worry for a day when they have, in actual fact, implemented it - purely theoretical at this point. But if you happen to have an account, tell me, and I'll add you to their equivalent of the Friends list...
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From: (Anonymous)
2009-05-01 05:04 pm (UTC)
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It's in your profile directory so it can be auto-updated without admin privileges. They added support for Program Files later when they gave it to OEMs to preinstall on new computers.
trs80, not logged in because Typekey's OpenID support is broken. Also their error reporting support, but it worked when I reported that error. | |
