OSX newbie questions

[confuzatron]

Confuzatron, please see this thread -- the issue with full keyboard access in FF is due to an idiosyncracy in the way FF's preferences are set on default, and is fixable.

Setting accessibility.tabfocus=3 did the job. Thanks!

 

[confuzatron]

::how to repair permissions::

Yep. it's working again, now. I promise not to touch anything for a while

 

[yellow]

Yep. it's working again, now.

Sweet beans.

I promise not to touch anything for a while

SuuuuUUUUuuuure. That's what they all say.

Did you, um, sort out what was pegging your CPU at 100%? I missed that in the thread..

 

[confuzatron]

Did you, um, sort out what was pegging your CPU at 100%? I missed that in the thread..

No, at the time I ended up powering the system down, and it hasnt happened since. I did try konfabulator and that 'humped' the menu bar into a locked-up state at one point - cant remember if I was still running konfabulator when the dock fell over. Anyway not to worry, I doubt it'll ever happen again

 

[andysmith]

Confuzatron, please see this thread -- the issue with full keyboard access in FF is due to an idiosyncracy in the way FF's preferences are set on default, and is fixable.

Wow thanks - I've really missed full form access

 

[mkrishnan]

Wow thanks - I've really missed full form access

It used to drive me crazy when I was typing in an address, and it always always tabbed from the State to the Telephone number or something, skipping past the zip code.