Grant Jacobs • Jan 11, 2015 •
- try uninstalling the Cisco VPN client. If you find that your Mac OS X web browsers are constantly ‘spinning the beachball’ at each scroll or click on a textbox or attempt to type text results in a long pause before anything happens* - … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Oct 07, 2013 •
(A suggestion and an informal review of the Opera WebKit* browser thus far. A trip away from science for one night!) If you are finding Safari sucking up all the RAM in your computer, locking the machine up or crashing like nobody’s business you might like to try Opera’s new WebKit-based browser. The short … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Feb 14, 2013 •
Web browser company Opera has announced it is to stop developing it's independent web page rendering engine, Presto, and take up WebKit. They're also moving to using V8 as their JavaScript engine, dropping Carakan. The author of the announcement has, separately, offered his personal thoughts on the event. The announcement … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Sep 24, 2012 •
By adding Biobar to Firefox, you can get quick access to searching more than 45 biological data collections via a drop-down menus on your web browser. Click on the Biobar link, you’ll be taken to the Mozilla Add-ons page for Biobar, click on the big green ‘+ Add to FireFox’ button. Wait for the download (it … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Mar 09, 2012 •
You know that really annoying thing, when you enter a comment on someone’s blog that lacks a preview feature, send the comment on it’s way only to discover that you forgot to close that italics tag? (Or bold, or underline.) Here’s one way Safari users can check the HTML of their comments without leaving Safari. It’s … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Aug 11, 2011 •
Reviewing and comparing my experiences with Safari 5.1 and Opera 11.5. For all the good things Safari 5.1 has added, I’ve moved back to using Opera. Perverse? Perhaps. Let me explain. When Safari hangs, it really hangs. More on this later. In the meantime it’s a bake-off. Read More
Grant Jacobs • Nov 18, 2010 •
While writing a new blog article, I have been using Google’s new ‘sneak preview’ feature. You might not know this exists as it’s not immediately obvious. (To my mind, anyway.) For those that aren’t familiar with it, here’s how it goes. If you run a Google search, you’ll see a magnifying glass icon indicating which items … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Sep 24, 2010 •
It’s Friday. Temporary freedom! (Looks around furtively.) I can post something that’s not science can’t I? Nevermind the silly introduction. Below is a quick tip to a common problem for users of the Safari web browser. Update: This tip applies to Safari versions 5.0 and earlier. As of Safari 5.1, Flash is a plugin. Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jul 06, 2010 •
As a bit of trivia, here are a few random tips I’ve garnered while using Safari. Share your own in the comments. You’re welcome to add features from other web browsers (I encourage people to use different browsers for different tasks). Some of my tips may work with other browsers, try them just in case: I … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jun 20, 2010 •
Previously I wrote about the main web browsers that have versions running on both Windows and Apple’s Mac OS X. Here I’d like to show readers even more browsers! But first, what’s with ’part not-quite 2’ you ask. Fair enough. It is odd, eh? What has happened is that I have lost access … Read More