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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...

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this please: I have an eMac running 10.5.5 that won't work any more - I'm able to log-in but the system freezes up after about a minute with some hard disc thrashing going on. When it freezes there is also occasionally an odd image artifact left on the...

I've just acquired a G5 iMac today (first time ever that I've been given a good machine, and not something destined for the scrapheap - go me!) and am trying to get to grips with the dreaded fan noise. Maybe it's just me and my sensitive little ears but the noise is completely intolerable and is...

Hi All, I have a G4 and copies of Virtual PC 7 and QEMU 0.9.0. For some reason Virtual PC is no longer booting from any of my Windows CD (I wanted to use XP but also had 98 and 2000 to hand, and the same result) so I decided to give QEMU a go and so far so good. If possible what I'd like...

A friend of mine has a laptop (which I haven't seen yet, but probably a PPC-era one) that isn't booting due to no space being available on the hard drive. I already have a FireWire external hard drive (with Leopard) that I can boot from in TDM if the laptop also has a FireWire connection, but...

Hi All, Please excuse my facetiousness but I am growing more and more tired by the day of hearing that there is yet *another* new update or version of OS X on the way. Is there any chance that, just for once, we can stop all the upgrades for a while and just get to know the software we...

Hello All, Following on from my earlier short-lived success in reinstalling Classic (more details in the 'Fixing OS 9 under OS X post), I found myself in the following curious situation... 1) I changed the startup disk preferences and booted up using my new OS 9 folder 2) The OS 9 system...

Hi All, I hope somebody can offer some suggestions to what should be a straightforward situation - I can't get access to public FTP sites through any of my normal applications (including web browsers) but I can get access through the terminal. I had this problem before (and briefly fixed...

Hi All, I'm using an eMac that I bought a couple of years ago that came with a dual-boot install (just before they were phased out) and have just started having a lot of problems with OS 9 after copying some old software to the machine. I think the problem was created after I rebuilt the...

Hi All - this is my first post, so bear with me... I'm currently trying to get a *big* file off of a CD (in the region of 700MB) but because of some scratches on the disk, all the applications I've tried to use get so far then just give up. Although I've been using Macs for a while there...