I just wanted to share this with you in case you are having the same problems and are searching our Salix forum for answers.
I started having a problem last night on Facebook, or at least that's when I noticed it. When I tried to type in any open field on the Facebook website the typing would lag....the sort of behavior you would expect if you were on a Windows machine infected with a keylogger. I cleared caches....still happened. I ran BleachBit http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/....still happened. I restarted both Opera and SalixOS....still happened.
I finally decided to try Firefox and sure enough it worked fine. I am a recent Opera convert and I love it, so I was sad to discover that this is a known issue which isn't exactly being handled expediently. The thread is here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... id=1064892
Hopefully they resolve this, but in the meantime rest assured....it isn't your OS.
Dennola4 wrote: I am a recent Opera convert and I love it, so I was sad to discover that this is a known issue which isn't exactly being handled expediently. The thread is here: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/to ... id=1064892
P.S. That thread is about several different unrelated issues that have appeared after different facebook updates, most of which have been fixed. Hence it is unfair to say this "isn't exactly being handled expediently".
No need. Sorry if my comment came across too harshly. I'm probably over protective of Opera since I work there.
I have no doubt that many people would read that thread as being about a single issue, since that is how most of the participants seem to interpret it. Really I just wanted to make sure that more people didn't make the same mistake.
ruario wrote:I have no doubt that many people would read that thread as being about a single issue, since that is how most of the participants seem to interpret it. Really I just wanted to make sure that more people didn't make the same mistake.
Yes, that's unfortunately quite common. Especially on Ubuntu bugtackers I see this mentality very often, where users think if at least one symptom matches it gotta be the same problem. As if there was only one cause for headache.
On top many users don't seem to understand that not everything they look upon as a bug is actually a real bug (often even feature requests are reported as bugs). Apart from that they seem to think that the developer who introduced a bug in the first place must have been an idiot and now is just too lazy to fix it.
But it's fortunately only some of them and I'm sure as education increasingly involves IT that this gets better.
funny you mention Ubuntu, since I can only guess that this is the most common first Linux experience many Windows users have and I see this mentality prevalent on forums as well. I'm always surprised by the leaps in logic I find there. For example: "I downloaded your OS and now my laptop battery won't hold a full charge.....Linux sucks, I'm going back to Windows." I'm also surprised at the relationship new users immediately create with the developers of a FREE, open-source OS or market product. There is a sense of entitlement and a rudeness similar to what you'd expect if Royalty were having a formal dinner, discovered fruit-flies in their desserts, and addressed the in-house cooking staff about it. Completely inappropriate and a terrible way to say "thank you" to a group of talented devs working for little or nothing.
Personally I knew nothing about computers before my foray into Linux, which started with Puppy, then led to Slackware, then a handful of other distros and finally SalixOS. Learning Linux gave me opportunities to learn about what's under the hood of an OS, basic Bash scripting, building SlackBuilds, even taking my computer apart and fixing hardware issues. I have tremendous respect for the dev teams who work to provide superb quality products for general use at no cost and I am always sure to treat them with due courtesy and to donate to their projects.
That said, bugs do happen, and unfortunately I have seen cases of both end-user ignorance AND developer ignorance. Surely you'll agree that both exist. I think that a culture has been created in which the end-user feels powerless *exactly because he is technologically illiterate and knows it*, and so he is vulnerable and at the mercy of some tech-support person who is often well-versed in technological jargon yet still ultimately unable to help the user resolve his/her issue. This leads to fear, which leads to rage and blaming. I agree with Shador that with more IT education the average end-user will feel more empowered and will ultimately gain more respect for the devs and tech people upstream. He will begin to understand that we are all, in fact, teammates working together rather than some fast-food customer/servant environment, as it currently viewed. Hopefully then the language and method of group problem-solving will evolve and become more constructive.
My apologies. 
Really I just wanted to make sure that more people didn't make the same mistake.