Dull computer question

Yamaha mechanisms are meant to be very good and loads of people make these into good external drives, or can be bought and fitted internally.

Windows you are shit.

Somehow i've clicked a button which removes icons from the taskbar. But how the shit do I get them back ?! There doesn't seem to be any option and the Help section is possibly the worst help system I've ever come across.

How do Microsoft sleep at night?

In a bed stuffed with dollar bills and condoms. MAGNUM CONDOMS

Which side of the taskbar - left (by the start button) or right?

You might have dragged them away by accident. Point the mouse at the line of dots to the right of the 'start' button - when the mouse arrow turns into l-r arrows, click and drag to the right. The icons should reappear.

Or not.

Actually, you might have to do the click and drag from the right of the taskbar....and then you do some jiggerypokery to rearrange everything how you had it.

sadly none of that worked, i think it was just bugged. In the end i rebooted and things reappeared.

thanx anyway!

(i was a bit drunk last night, after a whopping three and a half pints, so have no idea what i clicked to delete the icons)

You mean you bothered us before turning the thing off and on? For shame!

OK, I would really like to use Firefox on my G4 instead of an outdated Mozilla. But every time I go to the website, download it and install it, the program crashes irreparably the first time I try to download a file off teh interent (e.g. a ZIP file). Then it crashes immediately every time I open it afterwards, so I have to uninstall and start over. Done it three times, crashes every time. I'm running Tiger. I am importing all my bookmarks etc. from Mozilla when I start Firefox.

Can anybody tell me something obvious I am doing wrong before I dive into the Mozilla Help Forums?

Does Mozilla let you export your bookmarks into some format? If so, do that, save a copy somewhere safe then do your uninstall then do a Spotlight search of everything left in the system with Mozilla or Firefox in the filename (assuming they're all system files and you haven't been making essential Word documents called things like "My amazing book about Mozilla"), delete them all before reinstalling FF.

Oh, and go to Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions too.

I have been using Appzapper to delete all the related files but I will try a repair, thanks.

1. DL and install Firefox
2. repair permissions
3. open Firefox
4. go to blog
5 click on S3ndsp@ce ZIP link
6. Mozilla not responding, beachball for ever, force quit.
7. reopen Firefox, post my woes on ILE.

now I will try to DL a file again.

6. should be "FIREFOX" not responding

I've seen this before. In my case it had somehow lost the path to the downloads folder. My fix:
0. Quit Firefox.
1. Open Safari preferences.
2. Change "Downloaded Items" folder to something else.
3. Open firefox
4. Done.

I have a good feeling about this.

(I had no idea the download folder was something that was shared across browsers)

Hold down the option key when starting Firefox. You should get a popup that allows you to disable extensions, etc. Disable everything. See if you still have the problem.

many xposts (wow thanks for all the advice),

OK, what's going on is that it shows the beachball and "not responding" during the entire time of the download (which works as long as I just sit there and let it hang). Don't know why and it means I can't do anything else on the browser while a file is coming in. Surely this problem must be on my end... I don't get a download window or anything.

I'll check Safari (which I do also run sometimes) and see about that. Also disable extensions.

If you don't get any joy with that, try downloading an unofficial G4 optimised version of FF from here, maybe.

thanks. Beachballs everywhere right now. I set Safari and FF to DL to the same folder. Holding down option does not give me an extensions popup though :( I got through to the DL manager window once and saw all of the failed ones in it also, this is probably a clue.

OK after 2 minutes of beachball I am now watching something progress in the DL window.

I'm at my radio show now.

believe the problem is related to the download tool. I can open it up in FF and see every single thing I have DLd using a Mozilla link for the past two years. I think FF imported this huge file and is now choking on it. I went through and cancelled the 4 links that it still had active (every time I crashed it this afternoon), each time I cancelled one it beachballed for a few minutes. Then I clicked on "clean up" and left the house. Hopefully it will be done by the time I get home.

yep, that fixed it. never cleared the menu in Mozilla.

That was a weird one. I don't really understand why FF imported this file along with your bookmarks, but I'm glad it's sorted.