addendum to this, can't find a safari download earlier than X either.... On 8/9/06, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend of mine has been telling me how much trouble she is having > getting on the web and/or getting email.... I finally rolled my eyes and > went over to her house and began to see her point as I tried to sign her > up for gmail and did not get past the authentication page, then hotmail only > to find after filling out a long signup page that the submit button did not > display. This was IE on... probably OS 8 by the look of it, though I could > not remember where to look to find out. Yahoo at least displayed a little > notice suggesting she download mozilla or safari. I reassured her that these > are both reputable software, but did not start the download at the time as > she is on dialup and slow dialup at that. I just left her instructions on > how to do it and suggested she start it before going to bed one night. > > I know she won't though, so I was going to do it for her, assuming her Mac > has a USB port (anyone know?)... but the immediate problem I am having is > that Mozilla does not appear to have a Mac download for earlier than OS X, > which, yes, is very different than 8. I am looking at the Safari page, but I > am also remembering something from the days when I had a Mac... something > baout the data fork being different. So my question is that if I download to > my thumb drive, which is FAT32, will it even do her any good? > > And before someone suggests a hardware upgrade -- not going to happen. I > actually do have an interest in solving this as this woman frequently takes > my daughter to the homeschool coop and event updates go out by email, so > solving this would get me out of a lot of making sure she has heard about x > y and z... > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > Dana > > > -- > "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a > confession of their character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson >
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