Comments on: Web-Browsing Sluggishes on Mac: Disable DNS IPv6 in Firefox

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:30:29 +0000

You can disable the quarantine warning on a per-file-type basis. See this page for details.

By: Rubin Starset

Rubin Starset — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:41:20 +0000

Download warning, this is a bit of a backwards workaround for it…

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071029151619619

Also have you thought about getting IPv6 setup with your ISP? It is sort of the future that’ll never happy if folks don’t start supporting it now.

Additionally I’m curious, what did you use to color calibrate your new display?

I suppose I’m lame, but I just don’t care about IPv6 if IPv4 continues to work. I haven’t calibrated my display yet, but I have a hardware calibration device that I intend to get around to using some day soon… —Jeffrey

By: Grandma Friedl, Ohio, USA

Grandma Friedl, Ohio, USA — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:12:53 +0000

Even though, as Jeff has so often mentioned, his mother is not computer-savvy, I still sometimes read his blog and the comments. I so appreciate it when someone mentions the country they are from when they post a comment. Makes it so much more interesting, don’t you think? Cheers right back to you, Highlord in Spain! Thank you.

By: Greg Cain

Greg Cain — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:04:48 +0000

It will take a while to get used to a Mac, but eventually, you’ll learn to love it. That usually happens when you unlearn the windows habits and learn OS-X habits.

For terminal, I’d suggest visor, if you’re a heavy user of the terminal. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread – http://visor.binaryage.com/.

By: Howard Messing

Howard Messing — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:21 +0000

The idea behind the “downloaded from the internet” message is not to annoy you, but to give you a warning if someone has managed to get some “drive by” malware onto your system without your knowing….so long as if you got the message when you were not expecting it you did not ignore it. On the other hand, I’m not aware that any malware of this type exists for OSX…

The idea behind the message is to look out for user’s safety, but the idea behind not having a “show this warning every time” checkbox that can be unchecked by a savvy user like myself is to annoy me. —Jeffrey

By: Highlord

Highlord — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:44:18 +0000

As for the network.dns.disableIPv6 thingie, I found this http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-758-myth-disable-ipv6-will-speed-internet-connections, which provides an explanation. Cheers from Spain.

Thanks, that link is very helpful. I’ve gone ahead and disabled IPv6 at the OS level for my connection, so hopefully that’ll take care of that for good. —Jeffrey

By: bg

bg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:50:59 +0000

having said the above – i’ve just done some reading of the aforementioned spec and esc does cancel dialogs. perhaps you need full keyboard access on for it to work – i’m an idiot sorry!

By: bg

bg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:37:55 +0000

the defacto site for answers for this type of question is http://www.macosxhints.com/. Generally if its not there you can’t do it.

I’m sure I’ve seen somewhere that you can turn off that ‘ask to open’ thing but can’t remember where.

keyboard handling in os x is a mess – you’re supposed to use the mouse – one thing that will help is turning on full keyboard access. in preferences type ‘full key’ into the search box and that will highlight the keyboard preference, click it and pick the ‘Keyboard shortcuts’ tab, then choose ‘All controls” at the bottom. This will at least let you tab around all the controls in the dialog.

Normally a blue glowing button accepts enter (which you must have found) but a button with a blue border around it can be actioned by pressing the space bar.

These guidelines http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/XHIGIntro/XHIGIntro.html are the Apple Human Interface Guidelines – that mac apps should adhere to, these probably contain a lot of info – i just haven’t got around to reading it yet.

By: Mark Denovich

Mark Denovich — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:29:44 +0000

Second the recommendation for iTerm. Haven’t tried this… but I am about to: http://pseudogreen.org/blog/yes_leopard_i_want_to_open_it_already.html

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:43:46 +0000

For Terminal, try using a very dark grey (for example “Lead” in the crayons) – this feels “black” enough for me, while getting some value from the drop shadow.

iTerm (http://iterm.sourceforge.net/) seems to work well for many – might be worth a try. Regarding xTerm’s, I always found Apple’s X11 felt clunky (things like copy and paste were never so reliable), so xTerm never quite cut it for me.