I have had another issue occur with my Tiger installation.
This time with the Mail app. It is a really weird one. When I click on the New Mail button, the new mail form which opens up allows me to enter the To: address info and subject but not the mail message itself!
There is no way to enter text into the mail!
Even more bizarre, if I select a mail and click Reply, the form which opens up looks exactly like the New Mail form - i.e. there is no information pre-entered, no To info, no Subject info and no way to enter message text.
I’ll update this post if/when I sort this out.
UPDATE:
Problem resolved - I fixed this by removing the com.apple.mail.plist file from User -> Library -> Preferences
This solution is not for the faint of heart because this causes you to lose all your account settings. I had eight email accounts set up in Mail and had to make sure I had Usernames, Passwords, incoming and outgoing mail servers for each account before removing the file.
You can access the account passwords using the Keychain Access.app in Applications -> Utilities if you have an administrative password for the Mac. This can save you the trouble of contacting your ISP if you have an issue like this.
I keep getting the java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: getProxyConfigURL error when trying to view certain pages with embedded java apps - ie http://www.irishisptest.com/myspeed/ and http://visualroute.visualware.com/
This was happening under 10.3 and I had hoped that the upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger) would resolve it. Other Mac users can view these pages so I know it is peculiar to my Mac.
I think what I will have to do is to do a clean install of Tiger on the Mac instead of the upgrade I did yesterday. If that doesn’t resolve it, I’m stumped!
UPDATE: I resolved this issue without re-installing the OS.
Short version:
Removing the Internet Plug-Ins folder from the Library folder and re-starting the Mac sorted this for me.
Long version:
I started by removing the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Library -> Preferences folder and re-starting the Mac.
When this didn’t work, I removed the Preferences folder from the Library folder and re-started the Mac.
This didn’t work so I re-named the Library folder and re-started the Mac - bingo! Suddenly the java apps worked. Now all I had to do was put back all the folders into the Library folder (re-starting it each time) until it broke again to find out which one caused it to break.
I eventually discovered it was the Internet Plug-Ins folder.
Hope this helps someone.
One conclusion I am quickly coming to from using Tiger this morning is that Firefox (v. 1.03) seems to be running slower on Tiger than it was on Panther (OS X 10.3). Maybe (hopefully!) it is just me!
I’ll keep an eye on it and see if things improve.
In an update to my previous post on my install of Tiger here are a few more of my observations.
After leaving the PowerBook running overnight, and re-starting it this morning it is now running at ‘normal speed’ again. That is, it is no longer noticably slower than it was before the upgrade.
Most of my applications seem to run fine (including Desktop Manager - the virtual desktop application for OS X which I posted about last week - although, to be fair, I downloaded the latest development build before the upgrade).
Spotlight appears to work quite well now except that it tries to find what I’m typing in too soon! It will start the search after the first three letters. This means I can no longer type in more letters while the laptop struggles to find everything associated with those first three letters. It might work better if it waited for a pause in typing before starting the search. (my PowerBook is a Ti G4 1ghz with 1gb of ram so it shouldn’t be a resource issue).
Dashboard is a real disappointment. It was totally over-hyped, as I mentioned previously. In a preview of Dashboard on the Mac site they looked way cool - but the ripple effect displayed there is not present on the version I received. Accessing the preferences for Dashboard (open the System Preferences and choose Dashboard and Expose or right-click on the Dashboard icon in the Dock and choose Preferences) is no help either, the only setting you can change here is the keyboard key for displaying widgets.
More observations as I come across them.
Well Tiger arrived yesterday (Thursday) and after backing up my PowerBook I set about the installation.
The upgrade proceeded without any hitches. The PowerBook is now noticably slower after re-starting but I am putting that down to Spotlight indexing the hard drive - the battery is being eaten up faster than normal as well giving me more reason to believe more disk activity is happening.
The new version of the Mail app looks well and the search works well in Mail but all previous emails had to be imported before Mail could be used and this took a considerable length of time.
Oh, don’t forget to check out the RSS Visualizer [sic] screensaver - it really is cool!
Everything else seems to have gone smoothly enough - I’ll update this post later today and say if things have sped up.
Acid2 is a page created by webstandards.org to test the web standards’ compliance of browsers as reported here on the 15th.
David Hyatt, a Safari developer, is reporting that Safari is now passing the Acid2 test.
If this is so, then Safari is the first browser to pass this test - Kudos to David. The version of Safari David is working on hasn’t been released yet but hopefully it won’t be long.
This is also a milestone for web standards and raises the bar for all other browsers.
Who will be next, Firefox or IE? I know where I’d be betting my money!
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