Yes, Stewie, I think I need to clean out the corners. 30g HD with 4.86 left. the trouble with that is. I don't really know what I am doing. where has all this stuff has come from? I moved my photos to a thumb drive and...let's see someone once told me how to move itunes library to a thumb drive...let me start another thread.. how to move my iTunes to thumb drive and free my iBook.
humpf my SE 30 [circa 1989] had a 40 mg HD... THAT ONE was a simple HD to manage... couldn't see much...din't go far...and it WAS portable. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Stewie de Young <[email protected]>wrote: > It is just a very small but very useful plugin. > And yes I think a Firefox upgrade is what broke my ability to download > pdf's too. > Don't use it to convert a webpage to a pdf though. > It takes forever ( especially on an old G3 like yours ) and half the time > either leaves out half the page or you end up with garbled text - my > experience anyway. > Just use it to download the pdf to your desktop then view it from there in > Acrobat Reader or Preview. > It works very well for this. > By the way how much free hard drive space do you have if you have " a ton > of stuff in there " ? > You should work on having 5-10% of your hard drive as free space to give > OSX room to move and operate correctly. > > Stewie > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:02:43 -0400 > Subject: Re: PDF & Firefox issues? > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Thanks Stewie... > gee the reviews are not consistent...crashing firefox...which mine won't > even play a youtube video decently...? I will give it a try... > > I am a basic user... CS2, internet, i upload pdf files to clients and > college assignments...on my wee G3. > > All of sudden one day everything is different. Now I have to have a program > to download pdfs??? > > what's the deal? > > In looking at my Mac Profiler:applications: hoo boy I have a ton of stuff > in there. > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Stewie de Young > <[email protected]>wrote: > > You need to get "pdf download " from Nitro software - a free plugin to > Firefox. > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636 > When you click on a pdf file link on a web page this little dialogue box > will drop down from the main menu bar and ask you what you want to do with > it- Download it , Open PDF, View as HTML, Bypass PDF Download or Cancel. > There is also a pro version that costs money to upgrade to but for simply > downloading a pdf from a website this is a good plugin. > > Stewie > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:08 -0500 > Subject: Re: PDF & Firefox issues? > To: [email protected] > > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kristina Rost <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > My Firefox lately won't download pdfs [forms] from sites. > Is that because of a Firefox upgrade? > > any other ideas? > > > No problems here with that version of OS X and firefox. What version of > Firefox are you using? I haven't seen an upgrade of FF in what--at least a > month? What's your machine specs? > > Have you tried those same sites using a different browser, and can you > download using those? > > Howard > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Check out The Great Australian Pay Check Take a peek at other people's pay > and perks <http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or > share?<http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
