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Gave it a try. I find the interface to be very confusing. For example, the opening screen has a button with text "[Del] Delete", but hitting the Delete key instead takes me back to the previous page instead of deleting anything, and clicking it doesn't do anything.

It took me a while to figure out how to get it to try to make a connection - even though it says "Enter" you actually have to press Enter twice.

It then took me to a page with a link to the FAQ, which I tried to click on, but the link was not clickable. Also, the clipboard behavior is incredibly irritating: selecting any text automatically copies it to the clipboard with a giant SELECTION COPIED popup. It's also inconsistent: double clicking anywhere flashes the same SELECTION COPIED, which turns out to be a lie. It doesn't actually modify my clipboard in this latter case. And when I actually hit Cmd-C, it unselects my selection (WHY?)

(The FAQ claims I can "disable this by setting the copy-on-select preference to false, but I wasn't easily able to find a place for preferences. After some hunting, I found that I have to control click on the app from Chrome's "Apps" page to disable this.)

Anyways it's been hung at "Loading NaCl plugin..." for the last ten minutes. Either it takes a long time to load, or I don't have the NaCl plugin installed, and so it just decided to hang instead of tell me. I tried to install it by googling "NaCl", and found the link https://developers.google.com/native-client/. Clicking "Get Started" tells me to download an SDK and work through the "Getting Started Tutorials." All this for an SSH connection?

Anyways, it was overall a frustrating and confusing experience. I've now got four identical connection entries, none of which I can figure out how to delete, and none of which ever successfully connected to anything. Argh.




That's odd, it loaded up almost immediately for me, with little effort on my part.




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