New to Mac: Problem with FireFox!! HELP!!

ray_7

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just bought an imac, so plz recommend some good softwares/programs for it...

atm i got stuff like virtual pc, messenger, media player...
 
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subcons

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What do you want to do with it? Graphics, music, et al?
 

The Drizzle

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Thunderbird for emailz
Xchat Aqua for mirc chatz
Um... i know there's more

check out some mac forums, spymac.com, etc...
 

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I've been using my new PowerBook for the past week and I'm very happy so far.

Whic program works best with our own Chat Room? So far I've been just using Safari and it doesn't seem to want to work: I see the chat room load up but I can't actually interact.

Should I just use FireFox?
 

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Bobak said:
So far I've been just using Safari and it doesn't seem to want to work: I see the chat room load up but I can't actually interact.

Should I just use FireFox?

Yep, I've never been happy with Safari. FF for Mac runs like a dream.
 

ray_7

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thanks for the recommendation...

i'm prolly goin to go music wit it, subcons... sometimes in the future will definitely be graphic stuff...

i know firefox has gotta go wit me no matter what i use, pc or mac =)

more questions, can you upgrade the ram of an imac? also regarding software upgrade, now mine is osx 10.3, how do i upgrade to tiger? free download? or do i have to purchase it?
 

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ray_7 said:
thanks for the recommendation...

i'm prolly goin to go music wit it, subcons... sometimes in the future will definitely be graphic stuff...

2 words for music....Audio Logic :)

more questions, can you upgrade the ram of an imac? also regarding software upgrade, now mine is osx 10.3, how do i upgrade to tiger? free download? or do i have to purchase it?

RAM = Yep, easy install as well.

Tiger = It's an upgrade you buy. I still use 10.3 and I'm happy with it, although everyone with Tiger seems to love it.
 

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Abasuto said:
2 words for music....Audio Logic :)

Logic Audio even :glee:

Ableton Live is the future, runs much better on PC though :kekeke:
 

ray_7

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just got home from the city, went to the apple store and bought the 1gb ram kit.

installed it with no hassle, and now this thing runs fast!! in fact i'm typing this post now from my mac (hmm sweet 20" screen)... =p
 

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I've had my little 12" g4 ibook for about half a year and I absolutely love it. It comes with me everywhere I go pretty much and it's so friggin versatile. I use it for music, video, pictures, internet crap and some light gaming and it never gives me a problem. Since I jacked the ram to 1.24 gb, this little baby flies through pretty much whatever I need it to do. I also beat the hell out of this thing and the scratches hardly ever show thanks to this wonderful case. Hell I dropped it a few feet onto a hard tile floor the other nite and the computer stayed asleep and walked away with only a light scratch, no other ill effects. I'm still using 10.3 and am very happy with it. I'll wait a few more revisions before I consider moving to Tiger.

Software that I most commonly use:

Office X (I don't care what anyone says, I like it)
pretty much everything in the iLife series
Firefox/AOL
MacMAME (I have to keep a few different versions for all my romz to work)
Final Cut (in case I need to take some editing on the run)
Limewire (gotta download)
Toast (gotta burn cdz)
Macromedia Studio 2004 (I like to dabble in web dev sometimes)
 

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Kaede's Disciple said:
MacMAME (I have to keep a few different versions for all my romz to work)
Limewire (gotta download)

I tried using MacMame and I couldn't get romz to play on mine. MacMame would load up but when I tried downloading romz to it, it wouldn't take. I don't know if there are different rom types for 'mac' users though. Granted I'm a slow with computer shit, so I'm not sure. Do you download your romz from Limewire?
And I'm so behind the upgrades and shit, I'm still running 10.2, oh well.
 

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Kaede's Disciple said:
I've had my little 12" g4 ibook for about half a year and I absolutely love it.
same here. had mine since late november '04 and upgrated to 7xx mb ram. wouldn't want to part with it.

software ...

download manager : igetter
picture viewer : iview
p2p : azureus (bittorrent) & amule (emule for osx)
voip : skype
psp : ipsp (currently testing the demo, but might invest in a legit copy)
movie player : idvd (comes with the system), microsoft's media player, quick time and vlc (video lan client)
music player : itunes (air tunes rules)
ftp : transmit
cdr : toast
email : mail (comes with the system)
inet browser : firefox with an additional plugin for download manager support

office 2004, photoshop, stuffit ...
 

ray_7

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i just upgraded my os to 10.3.9 (clicking the software update link) and also installed the latest security update.

now i have a problem, my firefox won't open (error and stuff), anyone else experiencing this as well?
 

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download manager : wget
picture viewer : gqview
p2p : azureus (bittorrent), limewire, edonkey, list goes on
voip : skype
psp : :spock:
movie player : vlc (video lan client), XINE, mplayer, beep, amarok, list goes on
music player : gtkpod, XMMS, rhythmbox, beep, mplayer, list goes on
ftp : ftp, sftp,lcftp,nftp,Gftp,Kftp, list goes on
cdr : cdrecord, K3B, xcdroast,cdrdao,fireburner
email : evolution,pine,mutt,thunderbird, list goes on
inet browser : firefox with an additional plugins for pdf, java, etc

openoffice 2.0 beta, Koffice, abiWORD, staroffice,office 2004 under emulation, gimp, xpaint, dia, photoshop under emulation, tar,rar,gzip,bzip2,7z,zip,ace


price : free
machine needed: the 'constantly breaking down' pc you already just sold


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