Is there a Firefox rev I can install and use on my iMac OS 8.5?
We have an old iMac (one of the original blue plastic "bubbles") and I would like to move some files off of it. We have no writeable media hardware, but I was hoping I could attach files to email via a browser....
Suggestions?
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Even the early Firefox versions will not run on OS 8.5, they require at least OS X 10.2
You could try iCab 3.0.5.
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- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.
Q, Thanks, we'll keep this link in our pocket. Over the weekend we also discovered the only network available is apparently wireless. The Mac has none, so it seems we have to solve that before we can move forward. The problems wasn't apparent or anticipated.... I guess we just take the wireless connections so casually now that going to the effort of a wired connection seemed trivial. Thanks again. FUD
Cor-el; Too many computers, too many apps, too many updates, just too much to do.... seems like I RUN just to stay in one place. At least I hope I'm not losing ground! Thanks for the "heads-up", FUD
Doesn't your iMac has USB or Firewire ports? If so, put your files on a flash drive.
And one more point, many files in Mac formats are not compatible with Windows.
Silk... The USB flash route was our first attempt, there's nothing as quick as the sneaker-net, alas the 8.5 has no flash write support. It seemed like a no-brainer to me too..... That solution requires an OS update, something we're not anxious to attempt until this important data is recovered.... lest there's a major failure. The box is over 10 yrs old and has lived it's life in a harsh environment near the sea, so corrosion-based hardware failure is the constant threat, plus there just aren't so many expert OS reasourses around for consultation anymore... MOST people have simply moved on.
The only thing one has to do is to "flatten" the file for DOS to understand it. the glory (& waste of space) of the HFS (and it's variants) is that all "files" reall means files (with a capital S)! That is, there are two for each item the user perceives.
What DOS does with a name trailer (like " .txt ") and a systems file associations table, MacOS does with a "Resource fork file" that is paired with the "Data fork file" to help their (weak) OS figure out what applications goes with each user created data file.
Ironically an ascii-text file in MacOS is the only file that doesn't have to be flattened to be used elsewhere. (A text file is a text file, the world around - which is why one uses them to generate program source code.)
I really don't like the use of "Fork" for the file structure paradigm, either. Fork (and the subsequent Exec) has an explicit process-generating meaning in many operating systems (Linux/Unix for example) that is a significantly higher function than simple file storage organization.
Quarantine ("Q") , your name changed to TonyE.... what happened? How does that correspond to "ae"?