E Mac

amylou8

I was wondering if somebody can help. My sister and I both have an e mac (older version) which we bought from a friends company that were upgrading. We are both having trouble with the safari especially going on e bay (it keeps freezing) and hotmail (casn't open any messages) we have tried upgrading to safari OS but it won't let us. Does anybody have any further suggestions as to what we can do? I have never had a mac before!

johncolescarr

I'd try firefox, most mac users I know prefer it (most windows users do as well actually come to think of it).

just to to the Mozilla website and download

isofa

Really an eMac they are quite rare? Or is it an older iMac, what model exactly (G3, G4 etc), what Mac OS version is it running (apple menu> about)...

Safari can be incompatible with a few sites (mainly some banks), but fine on eBay and Hotmail, unless a very older versiom - again check the version of that too. Also the above suggestion to use FF is a good one.

sw67

If its an emac it will be running 10.3. I have one in my kids room and it runs fine using firefox.

It must be at least 7 years old and is still going strong

knightstyle

Hi, I am answering this on my Emac. Have you downloaded, free, the latest Safri4? Have you got the latest upgrades, free, from Apple.
If all else fails ask again on this dedicated Mac UK site
http://www.macworld.co.uk/forums/forums.cfm?forum=4

amylou8

Thanks for your responses, internet connection was down over the weekend so haven't been able to get back on here. We were told it was an e mac so just took it that it was as neither of us have a clue about macs.

I will have a look tonight and see exactly what make it is and also will try firefox and see if that helps. Thanks again!

knightstyle

Just a thought, have you emptied the cache? Plus try rebooting the modem. Good luck.

AHAR

I know that certain eMac models had a problem with bad capacitors on the motherboard which could cause freezing and graphical glitches. If you open the memory hatch at the back there are a couple of capacitors near the memory slots which will have brown crusty stuff seeping out of the top of them if they've gone bad.

Here's what to look for.

isofa

Zap the PRAM too, Apple+Option (Alt) P+R on startup...

Marty_J

Safari 3 was always freezing on eBay, which is why I stopped using it. Safari 4 is so much better, but you need OS X 10.4.11 to run it, so that's out. You also need OS X 10.4 to run the latest version of Firefox as far as I know.

Camino, and Opera are both very good browsers, and either should sort out your problem.

It might be worthwhile considering buying OS X 10.4; it will make more software available to you, and is much better than 10.3.

isofa

FireFox v3 as Marty says is for OS X 10.4 and above. But you can still get older version from Mozilla (the people that create Firefox), the last version of Firefox 2 (v2.0.0.20) is available here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
FF v2 runs on Mac OS X 10.2 and above.