MacGroup: Explorer

[Alex Whitman]

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:23  PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> Are you using a one-button Apple mouse? This sounds like the 
> contextual menu when you right-click on something with a multi-button 
> mouse. Do you have anything installed that lets you program mouse 
> clicks?
>
Thanks Lee.  Yes, it is the clear acrylic "Pro Mouse" that is all one 
button.  I'm just beginning to learn not to rest my hand on it to avoid 
accidental clicks.

I have not installed any mouse software.  System preferences > Mouse 
brings a window that allows one to set tracking speed and double-click 
speed.  As far as I know, that's all there is.  Suggestions?

Alex



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MacGroup: Explorer

[Lee Larson]

On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 02:45 PM, Alex Whitman wrote:

> 1) The toolbar favorites sometimes work and sometimes don't.  As often 
> as not, clicking on either the name or the "bullseye" will pull up a 
> menu offering to open the page in a new window, among other things.  
> Sometimes holding the mouse down will make the page in question 
> appear, sometimes not.  Choosing to allow a new window always works, 
> but is annoying because:

Are you using a one-button Apple mouse? This sounds like the contextual 
menu when you right-click on something with a multi-button mouse. Do 
you have anything installed that lets you program mouse clicks?

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Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville
Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132



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MacGroup: Explorer

[Alex Whitman]

Since I'm here... :-)

I'm having some weird stuff happen with Explorer 5.2 on OS 10.2.3 which 
also happened with 10.2.2.  Perhaps someone can explain?

1) The toolbar favorites sometimes work and sometimes don't.  As often 
as not, clicking on either the name or the "bullseye" will pull up a 
menu offering to open the page in a new window, among other things.  
Sometimes holding the mouse down will make the page in question appear, 
sometimes not.  Choosing to allow a new window always works, but is 
annoying because:

2) If more than 4 or 6 or 8 or whatever windows are open (including 
pop-ups and pop-unders, which I don't necessarily know are even there), 
Explorer will sometimes (not always) flat-out quit, losing all the 
windows.  I've tried to keep track of the maximum number of windows, 
but this is challenging because of unseen pop-unders.

3) If the iMac has been asleep overnight, and the first thing I try to 
do upon waking it is go to a website requiring a log-in, the first 
character I type disappears (e.g., "alylex" becomes "lylex").  Doesn't 
seem to matter how firmly I type the letter, I have to type it twice 
(type "aalylex" to get "alylex").

4) Yesterday someone sent me a message at my hotmail address which 
included a 32k .rtf file and two 2k .txt files.  I couldn't open the 
.txt files, and downloading the .rtf file made Explorer crash.  The 
sender resent all three by pasting the text into the email, and I could 
read all three.

I'm beginning to get comfortable enough with OS X to consider switching 
browsers, unless there is an obvious fix for these idiosyncrasies.

Alex

Alex Whitman
alylex at earthlink.net
Louisville, KY
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