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jsw

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Mar 16, 2004
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I apologize if this has already been posted - I must have missed in in my search.

Anyway:

For those of you with Intel Macs who wish to use PPC Safari plugins which do not work with by default with Safari on Intel, here is a helpful suggestion which has worked for me for PithHelmet and the Adobe SVG viewer. It might work for the newer Flash plugin that so many people have had problems with - dunno.

Steps:
  1. Duplicate Safari to SafariPPC (or whatever you want to call it). This step is optional and useful mainly if you want to run Safari "normally" as well.
  2. Select SafariPPC (or whichever one you're doing this to) and hit ⌘-I (or control/right click to Get Info).
  3. Opt to open this app using Rosetta:
    SafariPPC.jpg

  4. This version of Safari will now run all or most PPC plugins.

You can always just toggle the setting via Get Info if you don't want to duplicate the app (which can lead to cookie issues, so it's not foolproof).
 
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