Yes, a mac favor.
Thanks so much for the help!
Kristina
— "work gets in the way of life"
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Stewie de Young <[email protected]>wrote:
> Do yourself a favor and buy an external hard drive ( firewire preferably
> ).
> A flash drive is not a good permanent solution for backups.
> You should back up all your data to it then go through all your folders on
> your iBook and see what you can get rid of.
> Nearly 5Gb free space on your hard drive should be more than enough for OSX
> to work fine though.
>
> Stewie
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:45:43 -0400
>
> Subject: Re: PDF & Firefox issues?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> 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
>
>
>
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