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Mac OS X 10.3.9 Now Available

rikers_mailbox said:
How much RAM are you running on?

I recently upgraded from 256Mb to 768Mb, and the difference is night and day. I have had no more Safari beachball problems.
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1GB. No problems with the update yet but the Safari beachball, she still spins.
 
Serious problem with Safari + more

Have some serious problems with Safari. It crashes on certain websites. Found the support update on:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301380

But there is one MAJOR snag.

If you download and install the Security Update first, it locks for the ability to take the Java 1.4.2 update later.

I have given Applecare Support some serious issues to solve.

All this is experienced on an iMac G5 1.8.

May feedback - DON'T INSTALL THIS UPDATE.
 
daveL said:
Sounds like a great update for you guys. I didn't, and haven't, had problems with OS X updates, which you wouldn't expect if you read through this thread (or any update thread on MR).
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We did have the Java glitch but it only affected our Xsan nodes....
They are the only servers we use Java on (Raid Admin Tool)
Applied the Security Patch and that fixed us.
So all in all despite it having a little quality Assurance problem 10.3.9 works for us.
 
As per protocol I ran Repair Disk Permissions. Then I put my OWC Mercury Elite External FW HD put it in the trash and turned off the power. Then downloaded and installed 10.3.9 51.3 MB. After optimizing was completed tried Disk Permissions, all it did was bounce in the Dock. Restarted my Power Mac G4 450 successfully. Then was able to run Disk Permissions without any problems.
 
Limewire Won't Launch in 10.3.9 Same Here!!!

I update to 10.3.9 today and Viola, Same for me:

Limewire Won't Launch in 10.3.9

I emailed Limewire, but no response yet!

And I had just upgraded to Limewire PRO, OH NO!!!

Any help greatly appreciated!

Ken
 
I can now confirm that updating to 10.3.9 has fixed a minor annoyance when, upon waking from sleep, Mail needed a serious pause (up to 10-15 seconds) before it could successfully check for new mail without automatically taking itself offline. I forget when this began, maybe with 10.3.8, but it had not always worked this way. Now, in 10.3.9 I can check for new mail as soon as I wake up from sleep. Minor, but nice.
 
wdlove said:
No, I just turned off the electricity.
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FW cables need to be detached. Disconnecting the FW enclosure's power supply isn't necessary, but detaching FW cables is. It's a preventive measure and of course it's better to be safe, even if everything's backed up (because even restoring from backups is time consuming).
 
Hmmm...I'm such a 'tard, lalala, but I just now decided to try Safari 1.3 because slow text in the textbox in Firefox was bugging me (every once in a while, text entry in textboxes becomes painfully slow in FF, for me!). But wowsers, Safari 1.3 is fast.

If only someone would write something à la Tabbrowser Extensions for it. And it does seem to have some reduced compatibility with (probably incorrectly written) webpages such as Friendster.

But, oh yes, fast. And oh, oh, having inline spell-checking back is a nicety. :D
 
Fans!

10.3.8 caused my fans to become more active and throttle up/down with the slightest move of the mouse. My PM went from nearly silent to annoyingly changing fan pitch constantly. Scrolling a web page, etc, would cause the fans to ramp up with the slightest utilization.

So I went back to 10.3.7.

This time, I did a full backup, repaired permissions, and installed the 10.3.9 combo update.

The fan problems are back.

Does anyone seriously know why they've changed the fan behavior in 10.3.8 and 10.3.9? The slightest movement of my mouse or anything (checking e-mail, etc) causes my fans to ramp up. This is *SO* annoying!

I've reset NVRAM, PRAM, repaired permissions countless times, and changed my energy settings to/from Highest/Automatic but can't get back my 10.3.7 silent PM.

I really hope this "functionality" doesn't find its way into Tiger. Grrr. :mad:
 
Arrange?

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but has anyone else noticed that you can't Arrange icons by kind/name/etc on 10.3.9. It's not accessible. Try it
 
peripatetic said:
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but has anyone else noticed that you can't Arrange icons by kind/name/etc on 10.3.9. It's not accessible. Try it
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It works for me.

Try this: Select View -> Show View Options and see if you have the "Keep arranged by" checkbox checked. That would override your choice to arrange manually, causing the View -> Arrange menu choice to be dim.

Is that the case in the window where you can't arrange?
 
Doctor Q said:
It works for me.
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For me, neither the view options keep arranged by option nor the View->Arrange method are available for any view except icon view. Doctor Q, did you try this in views other than icon?

In list view, you have to do it by clicking on the appropriate column, and AFAICS, there is no way to do it. On the other hand, I'm getting more into this icon view with show view options. Did it exist before, and I never noticed it? Honestly I don't know which things are changes, which are bugs to my system, and which I just never noticed in this case. :)
 
mkrishnan said:
Hmmm...I'm such a 'tard, lalala, but I just now decided to try Safari 1.3 because slow text in the textbox in Firefox was bugging me (every once in a while, text entry in textboxes becomes painfully slow in FF, for me!). But wowsers, Safari 1.3 is fast.

If only someone would write something à la Tabbrowser Extensions for it. And it does seem to have some reduced compatibility with (probably incorrectly written) webpages such as Friendster.

But, oh yes, fast. And oh, oh, having inline spell-checking back is a nicety. :D
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I'm confused by your post :confused:
Are you saying that you want TAB browsing in Safari?
If you are then go to preferences and enable it, then "command T" creates new TAB
If not then just disregard my post.
 
~loserman~ said:
Are you saying that you want TAB browsing in Safari?
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No, I'm not. :D Well, I *do*. But I already have it. Tabbrowser Extensions doesn't add tabbed browsing to Firefox, either. FF already has it too. What it adds are a bunch of power-user-ish enhancements to tabbed browsing:

  • You can force FF to always only use one window, and force pop-ups and offsite links into new tabs, preventing them from ever opening new windows (and you can also create exception lists, etc, to this)
  • You can undo closing of tabs
  • You can move tabs around (maybe? this might be a default FF feature)
  • You can start FF with a default tab list, or recreate the set of tabs open on close (I don't use this so much, since I found it unreliable)
  • You can do a lot of things to customize the look and feel of the tab bar (although most of these are moot in Safari because it looks like the way I configure FF already :))

There are more that I use and forgot, and many more than I don't use. Mostly it's the first three things, above, that I miss. Tabbrowser Extensions is actually deprecated but still under development. There is also Tabbrowser Preferences, or something like that, which does many of these things, but is not quite as configurable.

Oooh, side note, though, that's relevant to this thread...for those of us switching back to Safari. So, does it annoy you that PithHelmet now seems to constantly hit you up for money, when the equivalent (better) feature in FF is free? AcidSearch, which recreates not only free, but built-in features of FF, is also now shareware. Have any of you who switched back to Safari with 10.3.9 pay for either of these? I guess paying is a bad-bad idea until we at least have Tiger installed.

I've paid for several pieces of shareware in the year since I've moved over to the Mac, but...hmmm...somehow this annoys me. And makes me hope FF1.1 really rawks.
 
mkrishnan said:
For me, neither the view options keep arranged by option nor the View->Arrange method are available for any view except icon view. Doctor Q, did you try this in views other than icon?

In list view, you have to do it by clicking on the appropriate column, and AFAICS, there is no way to do it. On the other hand, I'm getting more into this icon view with show view options. Did it exist before, and I never noticed it? Honestly I don't know which things are changes, which are bugs to my system, and which I just never noticed in this case. :)
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In List View, I've always clicked on columns to select the order, and used Arrange only for icon view. I can't tell for sure that nothing has changed, but I haven't noticed a difference. All my Macs are now upgraded now I can't easily do a side-by-side comparison.
 
Doctor Q said:
In List View, I've always clicked on columns to select the order, and used Arrange only for icon view. I can't tell for sure that nothing has changed, but I haven't noticed a difference. All my Macs are now upgraded now I can't easily do a side-by-side comparison.
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Yes, I do the same. But on your computer too, if you try these options, they are only available in icon view, right?
 
Disclaimer: I haven't read through all 18 pages of this thread so this may already have been covered. But, after installing 10.3.9, I find that I can no longer save images from a web page to a designated location and with a different filename. Only the direct "save to desktop" option exists, which is extremely inconvenient. Am I missing something?
 
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