According to what you say you don´t need Classic, which is very imortant for me with a lot of old but useful programs. Sorry to say I have nowadays the same problem with Firefox, some months ago Firefox worked OK but now K have to open the dmg-file. OSV 10.3.9 Lars-Gunnar > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Celia Lawton-Livingstone" <lawli56 at hotmail.com> > To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > Subject: [G4] Mac Classic Environment > Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:40:53 +0000 > > > QUOTE: OS9 and older is classic. I have 1 G3 1 G4 and 1 intel mac and do > not use classic at all. It you plan on running programs that are not > OSX you will need it. > > > ------------------------------ > > Hi Warren, > > I've only been running this Mac with OS X for 2 days so at the > moment I have no idea what are OS X and OS 9 applications... so I > suppose the question really should have been "am I likely to need > it?" > > Actually as primarally a PC user I've got loads of questions I want > to ask, some of them I've found the answer to myself like "how do > I/do I need to defrad/optimize the drive." > > But others like installing aps are eluding me... eg I've downloaded > Firefox and double-clicked on the file to install it but it doesn't > do what I expect it to do... install on the drive... it seems to > exist as a volume (i think that's what it's called) on the desktop > which dismounts? when I shutdown. Then the next time I want to use > it i have to double-click on the .dmg file again to "re-install" > it... what am I doing wrong? > > X11, Onyx, Open Office, MSN Messenger and The gimp all installed > on the drive. So I'm confused. ?( > > Also iChat doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it. > > Celia > > _________________________________________________________________ > Solve the Conspiracy and win fantastic prizes! > http://www.theconspiracygame.co.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >