Unhappily, I haven't been able to download any Firefox extensions to my laptop -- when I try, it tells me extensions are disabled. So I click on options and tell it not to warn me when extensions are being installed, and it still won't install the extension. Help?

I had this happen with my Windows XP machine. In ended up having to go into a special Firefox file and changing something from "off" to "on" or vice versa. I'll see if I can dig it up.

I remember some more!

Type in your browser just words

about:config

and hit enter. Then you can right click on any line to change it's setting.

Let me see if I can find the line you need to change....

ETA: While I'm checking, here's a page of all the about:config settings:

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ETA Much later, after 'Suela found the xpinstall:

There is a page that talks about this:

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Firefox 1.5: If you previously disabled this option and then updated to Firefox 1.5, the disabled setting will be carried over. Since the option to enable software installation no longer exists in the UI, you will need to use about:config to reset the "xpinstall.enabled" preference to the default "true" value (bug 310737). Here's step by step how to do this: Type about:config to Location Bar and hit enter. Type xpi to filter and find xpinstall.enabled. Make sure it's value is true. (double click will toggle). Now you should be able to install.

Hm. I found my way there, but I can't figure out which one to change.

Woo hoo! Found it! xpinstall.enabled was set to False, dunno why. Thank you, Amych and Daniel!

You're welcome, Consuela.

Hey. I'm looking forward to upgrading to Firefox and Thunderbird as suggested to me here long ago (May-ish).

Today, I'm taking my first step. A friend gave me two P100 memory cards. I don't know how old or how much each holds.

I've relocated the Apple do-it-yourself guide Robin pointed to in June. So, I'm pretty clear on what I need to do.

My question is...are there any dangers to doing this with unknown memory units? If the memory is bad, will it hurt anything? Is there a way I can look at the card and tell how much is on it?

I see lots of numbers but no Ks or Gs.

My question is...are there any dangers to doing this with unknown memory units?

Not if they are the right style. Putting 72 pin Simms in DIMM slots would be a bad idea, but generally they will react as if they were "bad" if something doesn't work internally.

If the memory is bad, will it hurt anything?

Remotely possible, but unlikely.

Is there a way I can look at the card and tell how much is on it?

Sometimes. Give us a list of anything on stickers, or on the stick itself. The numbers on the individual chips are secondary at this stage.

Thanks for all the iPod cross-formatting info.

Turns out that he already has plugged the PC-formatted iPod into the Mac and it worked fine (it's a 3rd Gen). And it is still working fine w/iTunes on the PC as well. So that answers that question. The only problem remains a good iPod-to-PC ripper.

I'll look into ephpod and/or see if he wants to cough up $25 for the anapod explorer.

Daniel, thanks.

I toddled off and traced the serial numbers. One is this one: MT16LSDT1664AG-10EC7 SDRAM 128MB INTEL SR440BX DESKTOP

The other is 64MB. Probably not much use, right?

I've got 128 on board now. Is 256 even enough for Tiger? The Apple system requirements say yes, but I'm afraid of wasting the slots.

Should I just bite the bullet and buy new memory?

ETA: Oh. Good. Lord. Now I see that Tiger requires a dvd drive to install. I have only cd. The plan was...memory then OS then software THEN drive. Rats. I feel like the MAN is keeping me down. Frak.

Apple did later come out with a three-CD installer set, but if you don't have a DVD drive, yeah. Sigh.

And I would recommend at least 512Mb, more if you can afford it.

What model is your Mac?