Showing posts with label workaround. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workaround. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 August 2011

An FB Workaround.

You know, I’ve got to ask, what on EARTH is all the fuss about … ?

No, really … ?

You see, what with one thing and another, there’s a lot of talk about online security, and about HTTPS versus HTTP.

Just in case you DIDN’T know, the former is a somewhat more secure version of the latter, and used by both Twitter and Facebook to improve their users online security.

Or partially used by Facebook, I should add.

You see, a lot of the time, when you use many of the games on FB, it’ll ask you if you want to switch off secure browsing.

You have to, in fact, to use the games concerned.

That’s not an out-and-out criticism, I should add: but it IS fiddly.

Especially when you consider that the secure browsing feature isn’t automatically turned back on, once you’ve finished playing the game.

There’s a work around, though.

Or a couple, I should add.

First off … ?

Logging OUT of Facebook, quitting your browser, then re-strarting it, and logging back in.

Those of us using a desktop or laptop can do it the easy way, of course.

Just go to the URL bar at the top of the browser windo. And in-between the ‘http’ and the ‘:’, type the letter ‘s’.

And press ‘Enter’, or the ‘Reload’ key combo.

There.

Wasn’t that easy … ?

I’m just hoping you notice the new Favicon for Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar, while you’re there …

Saturday, 12 March 2011

Safari And YouTube: Problem Solvéd!

You know, there are times I could kick meself.

And I know perfectly well I’m going to get comments, there … !

But I’ve just been floating around YouTube’s help pages, to see if I couldn’t find something relevant.

I don’t know if you remember, but I mentioned, a few days ago, that I was having trouble accessing YouTube video on YouTube, itself … ?

And only on YouTube.

YouTube videos embedded elsewhere — like the teaser movies I have here, or anything on Facebook, for example — showed up with no problem.

The same content on YouTube, itself, would show up as soundless black boxes: just in Safari, I should add, I had no such trouble in Firefox, or in Chrome, with the YouTube extension added.

And the content still wouldn’t show up in Safari, when I recently updated to Safari 5.0.4, and updated my Flash player.

Frustrating.

Especially, when you consider I’d be to’ing and fro’ing between two different browsers, to make show I’d be accessing the correct video … !

So the fact I had some free time, today … ?

Got me thinking I should look up the relevant pages, to see what I could find.

BINGO.

I found this little hardware test, which didn’t help.

And a workaround that did.

Lord know’s why opening Safari in 32-bit mode seems to help.

But it does.

Happy days!