@matigo Not I. I was using Netscape Navigator 3 on a G3 iMac running Mac OS 9.2.2. After about 18 months I upgraded to Jaguar (OS 10.2.6) and started using Safari. Then a glitch caused by an app that went overboard with stripping out excess language files corrupted things so Safari & Mail stopped working. This was rectified with the arrival of Tiger, but until then I used Firefox & Thunderbird, both of which were indirect spin-offs of Netscape. Then Netscape Navigator 9 came along & I used that on Tiger until they dropped support in 2008. I dabbled with SeaMonkey for a while before coming back into the Apple fold with Safari & Mail. I have 4 G4 & 2 G3 Macs in my collection & they use TenFourFox, itself a fork of Firefox for PPC Macs. It’s a slow web browser though.
These days, if something doesn’t look or work properly in Safari, I’ll use either Edge or Vivaldi as alternatives.
Whilst showering yesterday, both my ears became blocked, the left one improved in a few hours but not so the right. The doctor this afternoon after examining me reported that water, which at best is an irritant to the inner workings of ears, had combined with ear wax and swollen to cause the blockage. The problem with the right ear, he said, was there was also an infection in the outer ear canal. Until that is fixed, nothing can be done with the wax buildup.
So I’m on a course of antibiotics and some eardrops containing another antibiotic plus cortisone, the latter being prescribed to deal with the inflammation caused by the expansion of the spongy wax/water mix & the infection itself. I’m due to see him again on Friday. If the infection is gone, then the irrigation syringe can be employed to remove the wax buildup.
The awkwardness of the blockage is exasperated by sitting & standing, I’m a little more comfortable lying down.
@variablepulserate We have the ability, tools and material to construct a secure & sturdy cabinet to store it in. One that looks like an ordinary kitchen cupboard. The venue where we rent our premises is installing monitored security cameras all over the place.
@matigo We could double the RAM for under $60 cos this machine has user-accessible RAM
Men’s Shed insurance claim will be paid out tomorrow. An electrical/music store has a 6-day sale on Macs, 10% off until Sunday. So ½ the insurance payment will go to a new 2020 base model 27-in iMac. That’s $280 off normal price.
@sumudu That's more or less how I acquired my cat. She had been abandoned at the age of 5½ (when they left to go overseas) and taken to an RSPCA animal shelter.
@sumudu Of course he didn’t. If he had brought one, there would have been no rain. That’s how umbrellas work, they deter rain. Bring one with you, no rain. Fail to do so & you get wet.
// @matigo
2019 iPad Mini has the same RAM; GPU & CPU as the current 10.2 in iPad 8.
But the Mini scores higher in the Geekbench 5 multi-core CPU test. I put this down to having 60% of the screen area of the bigger unit.
A year ago I ran Geekbench 5 on my 5th gen iPad. A few days ago I did the same with my 8th gen iPad. Significant difference.
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