Archive for February, 2012
Firefox built in devtools annoyances
by Jett on Feb.23, 2012, under Computers, Internet
For those of you who might come across this, I finally got super annoyed with the built in “Inspect Element” option in the right-click menu in Firefox, it just happens to sit right above the Firebug inspect element option. So I’d continually click that first, then have to close it and then click to open Firebug.
Quite annoying really…
- Anyway, to disable it, just fire up your about:config (open a new tab, type “about:config” and hit enter).
- You’ll get a nice warning (unless you’ve disabled it), just allow it.
- Then in the filter box, type “devtools” and hit enter.
- Find: devtools.inspector.enabled
- Double click so the value goes to false.
Enjoy not having to use the built in Firefox devtools.
24″ LED Cinema Display Frustrations
by Jett on Feb.06, 2012, under Miscellaneous
Got into work this morning, and noticed something odd, so I thought I would recount it here in case anyone else is having this problem (as it took a lot of investigation to get it all sorted out).
On Friday last week, I swapped out my Macbook Pro 15″ for a new Macbook Pro 15″, the only real differences in them is that the new one’s graphics card works properly (doesn’t corrupt randomly), a Core i7 CPU vs Core i5, and a Thunderbolt port.
Today, I came into the office, and started working normally, only to find that my screen would randomly blank out. I have an older 24″ LED Cinema Display at the office, which I absolutely love and wouldn’t trade. However, I couldn’t deal with the blanking out. So, I popped open console, and initially thought it was an issue with a few of my applications, quit them and it was still happening, with nothing being written to the activity log. So then I surmised that it might be a power issue, so I swapped out the UPS under my desk for one that displays power consumption. Power was steady.
Then after much googling, and realizing that a lot of people were having this issue, I happened to come across a fix. Seems apple quietly released a firmware update for their problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4045
Hopefully google picks this up so people don’t have to search around quite as much.
