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If Windows were a small child...
Sep. 24th, 2005 03:07 pm...it's report card would say, "Windows does not work and play well with others. Windows has difficulty respecting boundaries."
Last night I booted up into Windows for only the second time in many months. I played a few battles in Battlefield 1942 (solo games--I'm a couple of versions out of date and can't play on any servers until/unless I changed that). Then I netsurfed a little with my windows install of Firefox.
When I rebooted into Linux (SuSE 9.0), my Firefox installation was completely trashed. Nothing I could do would make it launch. All I ever got was the Feedback Agent (which as far as I can tell, never actually sent any messages out). I tried downloading a new install of Firefox, but those wouldn't install. Or if the files arrived, nothing happened when I tried to run the installation.
After a couple of hours of frustration, I carefully saved my bookmarks file elsewhere, then nuked my Firefox and Firefox-installer folders and downloaded and installed OPERA instead. It's working fine, though it's not the program I'm used to.
Which brings up a question. When I clicked on a URL in my newsreader (Gemini), I had it set to launch Firefox to view the page in question. I've set it to launch Opera now...but Opera, unlike Firefox, will not automatically load the link. It just opens to the last page I looked at. I can't figure out how to make Opera load the URL in question. Anyone know how?
Last night I booted up into Windows for only the second time in many months. I played a few battles in Battlefield 1942 (solo games--I'm a couple of versions out of date and can't play on any servers until/unless I changed that). Then I netsurfed a little with my windows install of Firefox.
When I rebooted into Linux (SuSE 9.0), my Firefox installation was completely trashed. Nothing I could do would make it launch. All I ever got was the Feedback Agent (which as far as I can tell, never actually sent any messages out). I tried downloading a new install of Firefox, but those wouldn't install. Or if the files arrived, nothing happened when I tried to run the installation.
After a couple of hours of frustration, I carefully saved my bookmarks file elsewhere, then nuked my Firefox and Firefox-installer folders and downloaded and installed OPERA instead. It's working fine, though it's not the program I'm used to.
Which brings up a question. When I clicked on a URL in my newsreader (Gemini), I had it set to launch Firefox to view the page in question. I've set it to launch Opera now...but Opera, unlike Firefox, will not automatically load the link. It just opens to the last page I looked at. I can't figure out how to make Opera load the URL in question. Anyone know how?
