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POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Saturday, September 16, 2006 16:55
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Originally posted by goat:
]My first thought is that a cookie or a temp file got corrupted. I've also had issues with browsers not deleting quite everything they say they will, so something might be lurking around.
Yup this is what I think is causing me grief - I'm just clueless as to how to resolve the issue of cookies stuck in my throat!
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Try creating a new user and try to login under that. That way all of the local config files will be re-created and any problems with local cache can be avoided, too.
Now goat this is a great idea!!! Thank you I'm going to give this a go - cheers. You've also given me another alternative of logging is OSX under a different name too - that could also work. Thank you. I'll let you know if this works.
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What version of Firefox are you using? Is your OSX updated?
It's the very latest version of Firefox (I regularly update) and the os is 10.3.2... I think it's .2 I have been considering tiger, but we'll see if your suggestion of a new user works 1st.
Many thanks Goat. I really appreciate this.
Bye
The
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
It's the very latest version of Firefox (I regularly update) and the os is 10.3.2... I think it's .2 I have been considering tiger, but we'll see if your suggestion of a new user works 1st.
Run system updater and see if that helps at all. The most recent release of Panther is 10.3.9. This will be a hefty download, though so I hope you don't have dialup. If you do, you can download standalone update packages from apple so if you can find a friend who has faster internet or if you can do it at work, I imagine that would work better. I can give you more detailed information if you want it.
I can't imagine that an upgrade to Tiger will help by itself unless you wipe the machine clean and re-install which would probably be overkill unless you were planning on doing it anyways.
Is your problem just with logging in, or accessing the site in general? When you type www.fireflyfans.net into the address bar, what happens?
If you would rather do this by email since your access to the board is limited, my address is goat at tirfa dot com. I'm happy to help as much as I can, but I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow so I may not be able to help much before I leave.
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Hi Goat.
Just thought I'd reply, but I will probably email you from now on. Just wanted to say thanks again for all your concern. Sadly it didn't work. I did try the updater and just about every other browser out there in the verse... No luck. BTW it's a case of not even accesing the forum.
Here's the thing that now is really starting to concern me. I have acces to 4 Macs.
1 at my home, running OS Fireflyfans = Doesn't work
2 at work, both running OS Fireflyfans = Doesn't work
1 at my folks; running OS 9 Fireflyfans = works fine.
Now yesterday I tried loggin on on my MAC with a new login name (y'know how you can have multiple logging in aliases right) so I tried that. That also didn't work, that time I tried with Safari.. No joy.
So this has me really foxed. The common denominator is OS X - so I accessed apple for the latest downloads and found a java script bug fix for OS 10.3.9. and installed that. Restarted and tried to access this forum.....
Still didn't work... So here I am back on my old Mac running OS 9.
The curious thing was that I used to be able to access the forum just fine - until that day when the site went down.
Cheers again Goat.
Regards
The Somnambulist
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Would it be stupid to get rid of the OS-X, install the older OS9, see if that get's you on then later update to OS-X? Because as clueless as I am to most tech things)the general thing I'm hearing is your problem with OS-X. I don't claim to really know what most of that means but sounds like maybe the site is rejecting your connection because it doesn't recognize your browser? Does that make sense? Or maybe I'll just shut up now.
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I'm wondering if you've posed your predicament on any Mac forums - it's quite possible someone else out there has had the same problem, but with a different site. I'd suggest MacFixit.com, but of course there are a wealth of them out there. After all, it seems to be a computer problem as opposed to a site-related one...
I remember a couple of years back on another board I LIVE on a lot of people were having trouble connecting after a board upgrade. I don't think we ever found out what the problem was, but the FIX was to go into one or more of a particular file with a text editor and manually change some of the numbers (I know nothing about programming, can you tell?) - that's why I'm asking/suggesting if you asked on a Mac forum. The fix was really easy and took all of 2 minutes.
- Cj (10.3.9 here.)
P.S. It's also quite possible that you're not the only one experiencing this - there might be other people who only have access to one computer and can't get in to see this thread.
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Misstressahara and Caroljude.
Thank you both for your suggetions. Unfortunately you're not advised to run OS 9 on a mac that is set-up for OSX. I know they give you both formats but it's generally not a good idea for your computer. Unfortunately a reformat of the hard drive is going to be too time consuming and crippling for me as I do a great deal of my work on my mac. I just can't afford the effort of backing up all my work :(
I reckon though it is time to go to a forum to see if there are any others who share this problem. I did read a similar problem to mine whereby the panacea was to enter in a few lines of code into some sorta script, but I have no idea how one does that :( Still if I can find a suitable forum I'll maybe iron out the problem.
The frustrating thing is this Forum is the only one that it happens to. All my other bookmarks etc I can live without, but not this one, and yet its this very forum that throws my mac into a spin! Go figure! Someone somewhere is laughing at me! 
Thanks again for everyones suggestions. Hopefully I'll sort this out and be back again soon.
Meantime y'all stay frosty and be....... Browncoats
The
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