On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Dan<[email protected]> wrote:
> At 8:35 PM -0700 6/18/2009, irrational john wrote:
> Elaborate please - exactly what isn't working?  I've played with just
> about everything in the GMail web interface and it seems to work
> quite well with Safari 4.0.

When I use gmail on my MacBook in OSX ... which is usually Safari ...
selecting items via the checkbox and then clicking the top delete
button does nothing. The mail is not deleted. I think this also
happens in Firefox, but I tend not to use Firefox as much on the
MacBook so my memory isn't clear.

If I scroll down and, without changing anything else, I instead click
on the delete button at the bottom of the mail list, then the selected
items are deleted.

Makes absolutely no sense to me and part of me assumes it's a gmail
bug. However I never have this problem when I'm working with gmail on
my Windows desktop so if it's a gmail web bug, it's surprisingly
platform specific. I don't recall trying this in a browser in Windows
running in a Parallels VM. (Of all the reasons I can think of to have
access to Windows VM on a Mac, the ability to run a browser under
Windows is definitely *NOT* one of them.)

Still, maybe I'll give that a try just to see if I notice a difference.

I was hoping that this Safari update might have changed something
relating to this problem, but it didn't. I'm still seeing the problem.
It's just intermittent. No rational reason to expect it would fix this
problem since I'm not even sure it's a Safari problem. I was just a
wishin' and a hopin' ...

> What inputmanagers, plug-ins, etc have you installed?
> Does the problem still occur when you eliminate them?

What's an input manager? Or, to put it another way, I have no input
managers or plug-ins that I know of. I pretty much use Safari exactly
as it was installed without extending it with anything much other than
adding bookmarks.

I suppose I could try removing/uninstalling Safari in some way and
then reinstalling it. Maybe there's some weird interaction between the
former beta install and the non-beta code release code I'm using now?

But I doubt that this would really do anything. Mac apps seem to be a
lot less prone to problems generated by "partial updates".

Actually this could also have started around the time I installed the
OS X 10.5.7 update so I suppose I could as easily blame that.

FWIW I also have problems with the cursor disappearing on me. I think
that's somehow related to how full screen web video is processed. That
one's been with me for at least two months or longer.

It's all annoying and I'd like to get it fixed, but I'm not
exasperated or desperate yet. It's just very annoying.

If nothing else I'm hoping that moving to Snow Leopard will fix it.
Yeah! That's the ticket! Snow Leopard will fix *everything*! Sure it
will ... ;-)

-irrational john

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