Problems with Safari 4, scrolling and the colors of the page

Just right after the keynode I installed Safari 4 on my Mac. I've allready tested the beta for a cupple of weeks and was surprised about the speed. But after the the installation of the final release I recognized, that the color was fading while scrolling. In the worst case I got a black/white page. This problem is posted in an Apple Support Discussion.

The solution provided in the discussion seams to work for me.

If you'll get this problem, open Disk-Utility app, select your HD and press Restoring Permissions. Wait some minutes, restart Safari and that's it.

Enabling the cool developer tools in Safari

All web developers love Firefox because of the awesome Firebug Add-on. Sure, me too, but what is with all the other browsers?

Well, Microsoft will maybe offer real developer tools with IE 8. But for my favorite rendering engine WebKit (e. g. in Safari or Google Chrome), there are allready some cool tools availabe. On a Mac all you need to do is typing the following command into your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitScriptDebuggerEnabled -bool true

Now open Safari's preferences and activate the develop menu on the advanced tab. That's all. You'll get a cupple of cool tools, which are as powerful as Firebug.

Here the network ananlysis of my iGoogle page:

Looking pretty nice, or?

More for Drosera (that's the name of the WebKit developer tool) can be found here.

Notes Conversation View

One of the many innovations, brought to me by Gmail, is the conversation view, what means, that mails with the same subject will be shown as a conversation and thus you will get all your mails for a conversation just by scrolling your window down.
With Lotus Notes 8 IBM brought this idea into Notes. It requires at least a Lotus Domino 8 Server and an update of your mail database to the Notes 8 template. Than you can activate it by selecting conversation from the show menu at the top right corner of your mail view.
After opening a mail, you can select conversation from the display menu on top of your mail. This brings a list of all mails, which belong to the same conversation, to the top of your mail and you can open them by double clicking it. This is not as comfortable and cool like in Gmail, but you'll get a quick way to open other mails from the conversation.
But one thing I don't understand is this conversation list. It has a fixed size. If you've got just one mail in your conversation, you'll have a big free area on top of your screen. That's not very efficient.
On my MacBook with this small wide screen it takes a lot space, like you can see:

Firebug and Firefox 3 Beta 5

After installing Firefox 3 beta 5 I had a lot of trouble with the Google Toolbar. After disabling the check for Extensions, Firefox didn't start anymore.
Now I fixed the problem by removing Google Toolbar, but an Add-on I really need is Firebug. For web development, there is no better tool for debugging your page.
Unfortunately the current version of Firebug doesn't support Firefox 3. But instead of the Google Toolbar it works after disabling compatibility check.
Or better it works pretty fine on my Mac and on a Windows XP machine, but it fails on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron machine, where Firefox 3 is the default browser.

Firebug on Firefox 3 RC1 (Mac OS X)

But thanks to Ubuntu team there is a great solution. You can install Firebug as a package from the Ubuntu repositories. This version of Firebug works great in Firefox 3 beta 5 in Ubuntu.