Curiouser and Curiouser! on mousehole http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic mousehole Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Hands up Safari!! Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:36:50 +0100 <p>I keep hearing people talking about how <a href="http://webkit.opendarwin.org/">Safari</a> is dreadful, crap, what have you. I guess that, since I installed <a href="http://haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/index.html">Saft</a>, i've not felt that. It looks nice, it seems fast and, if the history and bookmarks leave something to be desired, well there's always version 3. And <a href="http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/">GreaseMonkey</a>? Who needs it when I have <a href="http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/theMouseholeProxy.html">MouseHole</a>? (Check it out, it's very cool).</p> <p>However, lately, I've been starting to feel that Safari is indeed cursed. One thing it seems prone to do <strong>a lot</strong> (for a MacOSX app) is crash.</p> <p>It seems that all my crashes happen at around the same point: between Safari starting and finishing loading a page. If I try and stop it, if I click a link before it's finished, or try to go back before it's finished. Well there seems to be a good chance it will crash.</p> <p>Again, Saft limits the damage by recovering the lost page addresses (if not any dynamic or form content). But you have to wonder why that feature got implemented. Was it, by any chance, because Safari crashes regularly?</p> <p>To keep things in proportion this doesn't happen that often, largely because I am learning to be patient and let Safari finish loading a page before doing anything. Also a crash on MacOSX always seems so much less serious than Windows. The app crashes, I report it, then I run it again and all is well. I've not yet seen one crash lead to anything worse.</p> <p>If I had one wish for MacOSX 1.4.3 it would be a more stable Safari.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002976.html Eat your heart out GreaseMonkey Tue, 04 Oct 2005 19:17:54 +0100 <p>It's amazing what the <a href="http://mousehole.rubyforge.org/">MouseHole</a> web proxy can do:<blockquote>See, here’s some incredible advantages over Greasemonkey and any other competition I’ve encountered. MouseHole allows user scripts to act as full web applications. In this case, the writeboard feeds are watched and applicable IDs and tokens are stored in the script’s own database. [<a href="http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/mouseholinYerWriteboards.html">RedHanded</a>]</blockquote></p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002978.html Sticking my head in the mouse hole Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:56:48 +0100 <p>So, as an experiment, I have now setup <a href="http://mousehole.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?MouseHole">MouseHole</a> as a login item for my MacOSX account and set it up as a permanent proxy for Safari.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002999.html Eugh fresh mouse droppings Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:50:28 +0100 <p>Just to make sure I <em>get it</em> I wrote my first mouse dropping this evening to go in my mouseHole. Called <em>got-links</em> (You can find it in the list of mouseHole <a href="http://mousehole.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?UserScripts">User Scripts</a>) it's very simple and silly. It just keeps a count of every site and url that you visit and lets you view the counters by going to <a href="http://mh/got-links/sites/">sites</a> and <a href="http://mh/got-links/urls/">urls</a>. Simple, neat, and all in lovely Ruby.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00003003.html