Miraba's Journal: One week at the job.

This is the start of my second week at Houghton Mifflin (I started last Tuesday, hence this is my 6th day). I'm working on the grade school math textbooks for bilingual (or eventually such) children for California and Texas.

Unfortunately, I'm using a Mac, and so I have to relearn all of the various command shortcuts involving the keyboard. It's a huge pain when I go home and keep on hitting the wrong keys for copy and paste.

The worst problem is that my computer appears to hate Firefox, and every time I attempt to type something in a text box (Gmail, Slashdot, etc), there are problems involving the cursor being several spaces ahead, several spaces back, letters not showing, old words I've deleted still appearing underneath the new ones, etc etc etc. Anyone know what's going on?

1.5 issue?

[m50d]

I know the firefox problem you're talking about (or at least a similar one) and it seems to be avoidable by downgrading, I'm not sure quite how far is necessary (but pre-1.5 is my best guess); I've given up and just use opera. If you do find a real solution please tell me.