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Someone sent me an invitation to Google+ last Friday, which didn't work after repeated tries. Yesterday two other people sent me invitations, which arrived tonight (so a one-day delay). This time it worked.
First I had to get a newer version of Firefox. I'd been meaning to move from 3.0 to 3.6 but an extension I like wasn't going to be supported, it said. Turns out they built it into the baseline, so all is fine there. (Rendering in 3.6 looks...different. Can't pinpoint it.) Google and Mozilla are both strongly pushing me to move to Firefox 4, but I remember hearing rumblings of problems there, including problems using LJ. If you're using FF4, please comment about any diminished usability you've encountered. For critical functionality -- operating systems, cars, browsers, etc -- I am not an early adopter.
So ok, I have a G+ account. If you're there and care to let me know you exist, please do. If you've figured out useful patterns, please share that. One I figured out right away (so tell me if there's a reason this is wrong): since you can share a post with any number of circles, stay away from any notions of nested circles or hierarchical circles: given the existence of acquaintances, friends, and best-buddies, put somebody in exactly one of those. Of course, there may be orthogonal circles too; that's different. (E.g. I don't currently see the need to have an SCA circle, but if I did it would include some friends, some best-buddies, and some people who aren't in any other circle.)
Yes, I acknowledge the irony of posting on LJ to discuss G+ best practices. :-)
Edited to add: FF 3.6 annoyingly changed how new tabs are placed. New tabs should go to the far right, not immediately after the current tab, thank you very much. This page has some rather colorful language, but it did tell me how to fix it. (I assume I will have to do that with FF4 and 5, too.)
First I had to get a newer version of Firefox. I'd been meaning to move from 3.0 to 3.6 but an extension I like wasn't going to be supported, it said. Turns out they built it into the baseline, so all is fine there. (Rendering in 3.6 looks...different. Can't pinpoint it.) Google and Mozilla are both strongly pushing me to move to Firefox 4, but I remember hearing rumblings of problems there, including problems using LJ. If you're using FF4, please comment about any diminished usability you've encountered. For critical functionality -- operating systems, cars, browsers, etc -- I am not an early adopter.
So ok, I have a G+ account. If you're there and care to let me know you exist, please do. If you've figured out useful patterns, please share that. One I figured out right away (so tell me if there's a reason this is wrong): since you can share a post with any number of circles, stay away from any notions of nested circles or hierarchical circles: given the existence of acquaintances, friends, and best-buddies, put somebody in exactly one of those. Of course, there may be orthogonal circles too; that's different. (E.g. I don't currently see the need to have an SCA circle, but if I did it would include some friends, some best-buddies, and some people who aren't in any other circle.)
Yes, I acknowledge the irony of posting on LJ to discuss G+ best practices. :-)
Edited to add: FF 3.6 annoyingly changed how new tabs are placed. New tabs should go to the far right, not immediately after the current tab, thank you very much. This page has some rather colorful language, but it did tell me how to fix it. (I assume I will have to do that with FF4 and 5, too.)
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IIRC the problem was something like the text boxes not showing anything you typed in them.
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Hey, since you're a Mac person you might know this... on Windows if you installed a new version of Firefox (or several other applications) there was no going back if you didn't like it -- it had too many hooks into who-knows-what in the OS or something; I never really figured it out. On the Mac, though, the notion is that everything's bundled up in the one file (bundle?) that you drag into your Applications folder -- meaning, in principle, you could archive the previous one and return to it, or maybe even have two versions installed side by side if you named them differently. (But probably not that last; I don't know where Firefox stores local files like bookmarks and cookies.) So anyway... on the Mac can you revert to a prior version, or are you hosed? Could you have rolled back from FF4 to FF3 if you'd wanted to?
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I'm not sure if you could have both versions active at once without interference. It depends on how they treat the system preferences files. (Preference and other nonstatic info tends to be kept outside the application itself.)
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You can certainly have multiple copies of an application installed in different places or under different names, but yeah, if they store anything in ~/Library/ (which is where most apps put user data), you probably will not have completely independent experiences.
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