At 4:30 PM -0700 on 5/19/05, Rick Barrett wittily wrote:
>Last week iCab 2.9.8, which I've been using for a long time, suddenly
>went weird. I use a G3B&W, Sonnet 450, 1 Gb RAM, OS 10.3.9, no recent
>changes aside from update to 10.3.9 from 10.3.8, and this behavior
>started before the software updatw.
>When I open iCab I get a dropdown box that tells me that "iCab has
>pending downloads" or something like that, but this has been going on
>for months, even with no real downloads pending, so I always click
>Continue, which used to just get the opening completed. Now, as soon as
>I click Continue, the iCab window expands to fill the entire screen,
>covering the Dock at the bottom and the menubar at the top. Command-Q
>will not result in quitting iCab, and Command-Option-Esc will not
>initiate a force quit until I get the Dock back by clicking anywhere on
>my Earthlink "Taskbar", a floating pallette. Even with the Dock again
>displayed, selecting iCab from it and clicking Quit on the popup window
>doesn't do anything either.
>If I launch another application the menubar reappears, and
>Command-Option-Esc will work normally. I've trashed the iCab prefs and
>repaired permissions but the strange situation persists. When iCab
>displays in its "fullscreen" mode the URL field still works, if I click
>a button on the iCab menu, it shows as selected but nothing else
>happens.
>Any of you folks have a similar experience?
>
>Befuddled,
>
>Rick
>
>
>--
You should either register iCab so that you can download the iCab 3 beta or
you can wait a little longer and there will be a iCab 3 public beta.
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Denny
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