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Would Firefox work on 10.1?

On 7/14/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>
> I'm stuck now.  Not suer what my options are.
>
> Good News:  Unit came in today.
>
> Bad News: 10.1 Sucks.
>
> 10.1 has Internet Explorer 5.3.  It seems Safaris is only available for
> 10.3->10.4.  And I can't run any of the flash stuff that I wanted to on
> Disney's site.  Apparently Adobe wants to load the OS9 version of Flash
> I guess there is no version for IE on 10.1.  At this point I've got a
> box my daughter can not use and I'm not sure what to do.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:04 -0400, Billy Passauer wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > Here is an idea.  I have many DVD drives and even on USB DVD drive.
> > > Could I temporarily attach that to the iMac and install 10.4 using
> that?
> >
> > You might check the compatibility database at xlr8yourmac.com to see if
> > any of your drives would be compatible for booting your mac.  Oh, but
> > this is an iMac, so it has the thin tray/slot loading type of drive.
> > You might be able to boot it up, with the system disassembled, and
> > connected to a "regular/full size" ide dvd drive via some kind of
> > adapter - but that could be ugly.  I'm pretty sure that you cannot boot
> > from usb though.  The other thing you could probably do, if you know
> > someone that has a Mac, would be to get another hard drive, stick it in
> > their Mac (after removing their hd) and install Tiger to it.  Then move
> > the drive back to your computer.  I think the install is generic enough
> > that the differing hardware wouldn't matter (unless theirs was one of
> > the new Intel based macs).  As much effort as it is going to take, you
> > might as well just pay the extra $10 for the CD's.  :-)  I was going to
> > recommend getting a copy of OS X from
> > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/osx-center/ as they have pretty good
> > prices, but it looks like all of their stuff is on DVD as well (even the
> > older versions).
> >
> >   ... Billy ...
>
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