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    May 8th, 2013, 04:37 PM
    dodginess replied to a thread Freezes in graphics intensive programs in Mac OS X System & Mac Software
    As per Giaguara said, it sounds like a hardware fault - it only takes one component to overheat on a circuit board for (say) the video driver circuits to cut out and random things to start happening. The way to test this I think is to get a can of compressed refrigerant and spray it on the suspect component. I had a problem like this with my 3rd generation eMac (actually the reverse of your problem) whereby the video wouldn't work until the machine had warmed up. Eventually it would only boot in single user mode, and the problem was due to a blown capacitor - the single user mode didn't load...
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    May 8th, 2013, 04:24 PM
    dodginess started a thread Switching between different versions of Firefox in Mac OS X System & Mac Software
    Hi, I have different versions of Firefox installed on my Mac as I need to make sure my sites work correctly in them. The problem that I have is that when I switch back from newer versions to older ones, my saved cookies and passwords keep getting zapped. I've temporarily got around the problem by using fast user switching to only run one copy of Firefox in any particular account, but it's fairly tedious to keep going back and forth while I'm testing style sheet layouts, etc., because I have to keep entering the password every time. I don't necessarily need each copy of Firefox open...
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