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Thanks DeltaMac, you are on top of this stuff. I got on to chrome from a search for best mac browsers. Go figure. Going to post a question on firefox, which looks like a late 80s browser on my mac. But I thought I'd throw it out to the general population. Your help has been right on the money...

I'm trying to install Chrome for 10.5.8. With some great help from some of our members, I learned how to get rid of preview on my desktop so my .pdf icons appear unique and not like very other file on my d.t. Could this be what Chrome install is referring to when it doesn't like my...

Thanks earthsaver. That's the ticket. I have my icons back looking like they should. We've been offgrid since 83 and I'm typing with solar/batter energy on my paleomac G5 motorola dualey, even tho it was cloudy all day and some of yesterday. Ron

Oh yea, zippidy doo dah! That's what I needed. I very much appreciate the help. Ron

Hi earthsaver, like your username, it's a subject never far from my awareness. What I am after is never seeing preview if that's what it is. I want the red pdf icon so I can spot the files easier. Sometimes right after booting the old icons are there then the desktop is redrawn w/the new...

When I restarted the puter the icons looked like nomal pdf. files for about half a second then they reverted to black and white yuk-ness. Com. I still shows adobe as the default app to open the file. Did some disk maint. on permissions etc before shutting down. Anything else it might be? Ron

That is something I forgot about and I bet you are right. It's probably being opened by preview. Well I may need to restart. I changed to adobe reader and it opens as a .pdf file in the normal window but it still doesn't look like a pdf file on the desktop. Hoping the restart may set it right...

most of the pages on the desktop appear like.... pages with some text on them. pdf files always had a red color showing the pdf or adobe icon. Ron

Running 10.5.8 on the last motorola 2 gigahertz puter. The finder has stopped displaying the pdf file icon on the desktop. I have several pdf files on the desktop and a few days ago it displayed them the old way for about a half second then redrew the desk out the red color on those files. Can...

OS X.4.1.1 G5 2.0 4 gig ram. I turned off snap to grid and now my hard drive icons won't stay in upper right corner if I restart. With it on it began to change the location of icons from where I droped them even tho it was in a columb of icons that had been there for months. Is there a...

Maxing out the ram is not a big expense and it's one of the few options you have other than getting a newer computer. Ever look at refurb prices on gainsaver.com or other sites. If you are comfortable adding your own hds and ram they can be pretty reasonable. Over the last 10 years I've had...

Motorola G5 3.0 OS X.4.1.1 4 gig ram 7200 rpm hd. In osx email program there is often a delay in opening a new msg. or reply window. What would be some things to look into? Permissions? RB desktop? Ron

Thanks for the input. Hadn't didn't know there were add blockers. I'll consider that. Ron

Well, I must admit, I'm not a matrix dweller with all the wrong answers. Go ahead on mr biddniss man....... Ron

Thanks. It's a sad commentary on the times. Ron

I noticed that button first day I posted. It's just me but, it's about the same level of involvment as a reply to all email compared to a hand writen note. I guess it's a geezer thing. Ron

If you define entity as someone who wants money from the internet that is so. But the entity does it at the discomfort and yes even a lowering of the quality of internet viewing. But hey the entity doesn't have to look at it. The internet was a free exchange of information and services. Now it...

Thanks for the short cut. Ron

It's on the way thanks. I forgot about those. Ron

Are there any that aren't trying to strike it rich by sticking offensive commercials in everyone's emails. [ All comercials/ marketing is offensive ] I know they are from screwgle but this fourm must be allowing them here to get money for nothing. I don't like being exposed to hype of any kind...