@AlanMunn Okay great!

@daviesgeek Um, for something that's "not an option," it's been serving me well since version 1.0 in Panther. Way better than Internet Explorer for Mac, which is what came before it.

@DanielLawson Yes, I know but 1) You are not a web developer and 2) You have your own computer. I don't have my own, so all my bookmarks, history, autocompletion, etc. need to be stored somewhere where I can access them online and be able to move them easily from computer to computer.

That's been a challenge for me and all my data. I have to be able to move my data easily from computer to computer. Dropbox has been a lifesaver for that...

@daviesgeek Dropbox rocks indeed. For the past year, I have had my own computer, and it's awesome, but for much of the time since Safari's release, I have and frequently still do have to work on computers that are not mine. It's only in the past year that browser bookmarks, history, autocompletion, etc. have been features I've started to rely upon, and when I have to use Internet Explorer on the machine in my classroom or Firefox on the machine in my office, the system breaks.

@DanielLawson Ah. I see...

And FWIW, my current job doesn't involve much "web developing" – but I have been a web developer at various points in time.

IE. (shudder)

@DanielLawson You have?

@daviesgeek I'm old. I've had lots of different jobs in life. Developing web sites for various churches and organizations was something I did many years ago. I (thankfully) don't think any of them are still on the web in their current form.

Hmm....I haven't used Safari for two years now...and the problems are gone.

@daviesgeek shudder indeed.

I had hanging issues.

@daviesgeek That sounds… fatal.

@DanielLawson Don't get me started. Believe me, I know what a pain IE is

@DanielLawson Yah. I couldn't stand it and dumped it.

However, Safari is pretty fast now...it isn't bad and I really like the navigation (swiping back and forth between pages). It looks really good.

However, the downside is the syncing.

If you've got something that works for you, awesome. I'm just saying you called it "not an option." It was way better than the options that came before it.

If you think IE for Windows is bad, try IE for Mac. :-/

Well, it does get around the malware problem.

But as far as usability goes, Safari was like a glass of ice water in the middle of the desert.

Now I fire up Chrome whenever I need Flash, but it's Safari the rest of the time.

@DanielLawson Well, up until I opened up Safari just a bit ago, it wasn't an option. Now...I'm not sure. Safari is very competitive

@DanielLawson I've used that too.

I've used the Mac OS since System 9

I've also used stuff earlier than that, such as System 7

I'm gonna try the dev preview of Safari 6.

Who knows? Maybe I'll switch...

Ah ha! The omnibar!

I'm annoyed at MS for making IE 6 as yucky for web developers as they did, but almost as annoyed that it's impossible to test for without keeping an XP VM around.

I understand that they want people to stop supporting it, but for some sites that isn't an option. The least they could do is make it as easy as possible for us to make things work.

That said, I'm very happy with the direction of IE9 and 10. They're really starting to get it with those releases.

@NathanGreenstein Yes, they finally are...

@NathanGreenstein I just don't test in it...yes, yes, I know I should test it, but I don't...

@gentmatt Speyer und Sinsheim, die Jungs wollen grosse Flieger sehen :-)

@NathanGreenstein Can you walk me through setting up an action for ControlPlane? I don't really get it and the developer site isn't much help either...

@NathanGreenstein Never mind...read help pages do actually help! =D

Okay, now I do have a question. I have two contexts set up: Home and Secondary Display connected. When I leave my house, I want the firewall to turn on. However, the way it is currently set up, when I connect a monitor, the firewall turns on. How do I change that action?

@daviesgeek Not sure, I haven't actually used the app yet ;)

Just found it as a potential solution to something I'm working on and saw that it applied to your question too.

I'll let you know if I do figure it out though

@NathanGreenstein Okay, thanks! I love it though!!!

Did you see my comment?

@daviesgeek Okay, I've used the app now :) I think you'll want to select your Firewall action from the list in the Actions tab and change it's Context to 'Home' and 'On departure'.

Btw, I ended up rolling my own solution to that. I wish DockSpaces was scriptable...

@NathanGreenstein Yes, but when I connect a monitor, it changes the context to a context that isn't 'Home' and turns the firewall on...

@NathanGreenstein I like your solution. A hacky, but totally usable solution!

Hmm, can you post a screenshot of your Rules tab?

@NathanGreenstein si. uno momento...

blah, meant the Actions tab. sorry!

Oh, okay. NP

there ya are

Ahh, I get it now. So, when you connect a display, it triggers a departure from home, which turns on the firewall.

yes. Although I do see this...