Mac Forum / General / General / July 2007

I dont like the look and feel of Safari. Are there any good alternatives? I
have heard much about Firefox, may this be an alternative?

I am running 10.3.9 on a 600MHz iMac.
Thunderbird is set as the default mail application, but Mail.app still
loads at login.
Any clues on making it go away (I just thought of deleting it!!)

I've tried using VideoDownloader with Firefox (and even Safari) which
works great with most sites including Youtube, but I've been
unsuccessful with downloading anything from MySpace even though
VideoDownloader claims to handle this as well.

With 10.4.9, I thought I could repair the disk right from Disk Utility
instead of using the installation CD. Now the repair button is grayed
out and I can only verify it. Has it always been so and I'm just senile?
Most grateful.

In the past what has happened to the price and availability of apples
current notebook line when a new model is announced?
Do they lower the price on the shelf?
Do they leave the price and suddenly pull the old of the shelf and

Do Safari browsers accept
https://www.myctfs.com
as a secure site?

I have noticed that lately my internet speed has gone slower on my
Mac.
I have both Vista and Mac on my MacBook Pro and i done this speed test
on both systems and found out that i get rely double the speed in

I'm curious to know if there are any OS X 10.4.10 system components
that I can safely delete without compromising the system's integrity on
my G4 Quicksilver. I'd like to remove things that I don't need, and
that the system doesn't need, but I don't want to delete in haste, and

The ball in my Mighty Mouse won't scroll down, but will scroll up and
sideways.  How does one clean it?  I recall that one should not use
alcohol.

Safari defaults to Preview when downloading a PDF. Note I said
downloading, not clicking on a link. It gives the downloaded PDF
Preview's file type/creator/icon.
I've looked in Help and on the Apple support pages for a way to change

I have the most bizarre problem, my Apple keyboards no longer will
"work" in the Finder, I cannot use keyboard commands to delete, create
new folders, type file/folder names, etc.
The keyboards works perfectly fine in every other application, the

I have been through the Apple Help, and system prefs, plus finder prefs.  
Is there any way to get rid of the drop shadows around windows?
I have OS 10.4.10 on a g4 Al power book.

This was today
I suppose one advantage of getting gays confident and open about their
'way of life' will help them be 'identified' when the time
comes !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought an iMac and wanted to import my certificates
*.p12 and *.cer into the key chain.
It does this as certificates but not
into My Certificates, hence I cannot

Machine: iMac 2.16 GHz Intel; 1 GB RAM
OS: 10.4.10
Software: iTunes 7.3
Problem: Every time I start iTunes, it throws up this error -