Comments on: I just wanted to print a file http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/ just starting ... Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:30:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alan’s blog » What is Computing? The centrality of systemics http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-7021 Alan’s blog » What is Computing? The centrality of systemics Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:30:10 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-7021 [...] non-functional properties. Interestingly all the problems I cited in my recent blog ‘”I just wanted to print a file” are about systemics This demands a discussion of its own, but the basic problem is that [...] [...] non-functional properties. Interestingly all the problems I cited in my recent blog ‘”I just wanted to print a file” are about systemics This demands a discussion of its own, but the basic problem is that [...]

]]> By: Alan’s blog » HCI and CSCW - is your usability too small http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6692 Alan’s blog » HCI and CSCW - is your usability too small Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:03:54 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6692 [...] full circle, just doing (b) to ourselves. How many of the problems I noted in my recent post “I just wanted to print a file” would be picked up by a standard usability evaluation? The problem with a too heavy [...] [...] full circle, just doing (b) to ourselves. How many of the problems I noted in my recent post “I just wanted to print a file” would be picked up by a standard usability evaluation? The problem with a too heavy [...]

]]> By: bard http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6642 bard Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:40:41 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6642 Individual developers know that their software will face usage patterns they can't foresee, and they can't rely on a QA department, so they take failing software as a fact of life. The careful ones try to make that event as graceful as possible. Perhaps the difference with corporate monsters is that those *do* have a QA department, which deludes them into thinking they're in a different boat. :-) Individual developers know that their software will face usage patterns they can’t foresee, and they can’t rely on a QA department, so they take failing software as a fact of life. The careful ones try to make that event as graceful as possible.

Perhaps the difference with corporate monsters is that those *do* have a QA department, which deludes them into thinking they’re in a different boat. :-)

]]> By: alan http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6474 alan Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:27:14 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6474 Thanks, just tried it out and it works a dream :-) I just checked too what happens when FireFox crashes (by killing the process) and it still asks what to do ... essential in those times when Firefox encounters a page that makes it crashes, it restarts, restores the session, gets to the same page, crashes ... Then the only thing to do is to ask it to scrap its remembered session state. It is interesting that the most reliable apps are the ones that are either open community or written by individuals, it is the corporate monster ones (Microsoft, Adobe/Macromedia) that really die a lot and tend to be unresliant to environmental problems such as network glitches or sleep/wake-up cycles. To be fair, this may be partly a matter of scale as FireFox has some of the big-boy problems although certainly not as bad. Thanks, just tried it out and it works a dream :-)

I just checked too what happens when FireFox crashes (by killing the process) and it still asks what to do … essential in those times when Firefox encounters a page that makes it crashes, it restarts, restores the session, gets to the same page, crashes … Then the only thing to do is to ask it to scrap its remembered session state.

It is interesting that the most reliable apps are the ones that are either open community or written by individuals, it is the corporate monster ones (Microsoft, Adobe/Macromedia) that really die a lot and tend to be unresliant to environmental problems such as network glitches or sleep/wake-up cycles.

To be fair, this may be partly a matter of scale as FireFox has some of the big-boy problems although certainly not as bad.

]]> By: bard http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6472 bard Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:23:24 +0000 http://www.alandix.com/blog/2007/12/27/i-just-wanted-to-print-a-file/#comment-6472 > In fact if Firefox crashes it does recall its last state … but not when it is closed down ‘normally’. Try: Preferences -> Main -> When Firefox Starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time > In fact if Firefox crashes it does recall its last state … but not when it is closed down ‘normally’.

Try: Preferences -> Main -> When Firefox Starts: Show my windows and tabs from last time

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