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Issues with Adium, mDNSResponder and Tab Inspector 



- Version: 3.0 (v355), 6/6/2009 09:13PM PST
summerstormpictures
Difficult 



- Version: 2.1 v253, 1/21/2007 12:25AM PST
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iGregMost Recent Replies: View All 6 Replies
- Difficult? (2 replies)
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Pretty darned awesome 



- Version: 2.1 v253, 12/28/2006 09:36AM PST
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julia2Most Recent Replies: View All 2 Replies
I paid for and have been trying to use this obviously inspired software for almost a year now. Unfortunately there have been several issues, one critical, which have forced me back to Microsoft Word out of necessity until they are quashed.
1. CRITICAL: Having spent a lot of email time with the techs, I am informed that there is a conflict with Adium, Bonjour and mDNSResponder that causes Notebook to fault out to the ''all licenses are in use'' dialog when mDNSResponder crashes--and then provides no way to save work before it quits out. All I'm given is an ''OK'' button to push. While I'm a bit anal in ''oversaving'' my work in progress--basically when I stop typing, I hit CMD-S to save--one day I lost over a page of work and I realized I just couldn't take this kind of chance anymore. This issue is fairly new and cropped up after the first version of 3.0. I never had this happen before that. Something changed and needs to be reversed--in my humble opinion.
(For the record, Adium is a wonderfully useful and inspired software that puts all IM chat alternatives (MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, AIM/AOL etc.) ''under one roof'' and makes interacting with them simple--without advertisements--and it's free. I will not be forced to sacrifice one good piece of software for another when I have a perfectly good alternative in Microsoft Word.)
2. USABILITY: There are ''glitches'' on CTRL-clicking on tabs to bring up the Tab Inspector. It apparently gets ''stuck'' on the previous tab and wants some sort of ''closure'' before ''moving on'' to the next tab you wish to modify. Only by ''tinkering around'' by selecting various tabs, pages at random to ''make it forget'', will it ''move on.'' This feature is definitely in need of ''therapy.''
3. USABILITY: Overall the preferences and settings are not entirely intuitive--often to the point of confusion in some cases. Things just aren't where you expect to find them. This is a big ''slow-downer'' of an issue that seems to call out for a bit more organization.
I love the presentation and organization of Notebook overall and would love to see a more stable environment--but I just can't take the chance to lose work anymore.
NOTE: I have been told that ''I am the only one having the Adium/mDNSResponder/Bonjour issue. I have a hard time believing this and would love to hear if there are any more of us out there who can perhaps fast-track resolution on this issue.