on 03/11/04 22:58, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday, November 3, 2004, at 10:45 PM, Jacob wrote: > >> What exactly happens when you try to launch it? >> >> > > I've been able to download the .dmg file and the disk image appears. > But the icon highjacks my dock after I drag it to 'Applications' and > just pulses in and out of the dock. I can't delete it, etc. I think I > broke the cycle by force quitting and/or restarting. > > One issue that seemed noteworthy is that if one tries to reinstall > Firefox after either having an eralier version and/or an abortive > attempt of the same version, any remaining files associated with the > previous version can causes problems. I don't think this was the issue > in my case, though. > > I do want Firefox. I'm in Jaguar and Safari is less useful to me, since > Apple won't allow me to update it. Sites important to me, like orkut > and gmail don't support the jag version of Safari. Plus, I want a > standalone browser if I can have one. > > I think there were some thoughtful responses to my (and others') query, > but I'm ashamed to say that I haven't been able to make it a priority, > time-wise, to try to experiment with Firefox to get it to install. I > should. This thread reminds me to do so.
Are you sure you're not trying to run it from the dmg, which is read-only? I usually try any new application from the disk image before I install them definitely to see if I like them and I remember a similar behavior on my PowerBook. I had to kill the process to finally be able to copy it to a regular disk and launch it from there. Haven't had any problem with it since then... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fandango on core n.: [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc(3) arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'. On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
