[G4] Browsers not opening

[Robert MacLeay]

I can think of nothing which will cause ALL of these browsers to
spontaneously quit, other than a corrupted operating system.

Forget about viruses; there aren't any.

My best suggestion, unless you want to make a career of troubleshooting this
problem, is to back up your data and reinstall the operating system.

I STRONGLY suggest moving up to Panther or Tiger.  These are night-and-day
better operating systems, and most modern browsers require at least Panther
(10.3) to be fully supported.  Safari 2.0 under Tiger is a far better
browser that the Safari 1.0 which shipped with Jaguar (10.2).

At the same time, max out your RAM; your Mac will run faster and more
reliably if you do.  OS X gets wonky if it is forced to do much disk
swapping to make up for lack of RAM.

HTH, 
Robert (also in Denver)


On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:45:00 -0700 (PDT), gary usww <garyusww at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I asked this question a few days ago, but I want to
> run it again and get some more advice.  I recently
> moved from one apartment to another about
> 1.5 miles away, and since the move I haven't been able
> to successfully open any of my browsers (Camino,
> Explorer, Safari, and Mozilla) on my G4/466, (OS
> 10.2.8), and it also affects my System Preferences
> when I attempt to open the "Internet" section.  I had
> DSL service from Qwest (I live in the Denver area),
> and I had it transferred to the new place, adding MSN
> Premium through a special offer.  Now all of my
> browsers quit immediately after starting.  Has anyone
> else had this experience?  I don't know if it's the
> service, or if I picked up a virus before moving and
> it's just coincidence that my browsers are just now
> going goofy.  I also have a Windows laptop, and that's
> still working fine.  Your advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Gary