[muglo] Re: Download problem

Yes, I too know the difficulty of DLing large programs with dial-up!!!  
Since changing to HS I have now DLed the 10.3.9 update - which I would 
never have contemplated with dial-up!! I once had a program for DLing 
in pieces which I never tried so I don't know if it would work!!

paul

On Apr 29, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> The joys of dial-up :-(. Either your connection is too flakey, your
> ISP is over-burdened or FireFox's server is designed to feed high
> speed downloads (the reality is that many people are now on some form
> of high speed or other).
>
> Try downloading iCab from http://www.icab.de and see if you can
> download FireFox using the iCab web browser. Who knows, you may even
> find that iCab fills a web browsing niche!
>
> PS I presume you're not planning to use FireFox on your PPC 8500 b/c
> FireFox requires Mac OS X. The only currently developed web browser
> for Mac OS 9 is iCab. Mozilla.org actually goes as far as to recommend
> iCab for people on OS 9 rather than their own Netscape/Mozilla
> ancestors:
> <http://www.mozilla.org/download.html>
>
> "Looking for software for Mac OS 9?
>
> Due to the lack of developer interest, build machines, compilers and
> testing resources, the last mozilla.org software built for Mac OS 9
> was Mozilla 1.2.1, released in December 2002. However, versions of our
> software that old are not recommended for security reasons. Therefore,
> for Mac OS 9 users, mozilla.org recommends iCab - which is, as far as
> we know, the only graphical browser currently maintained for Mac OS
> 9."
>
> Eric.
>
> On 29/04/06, r weaver <weaverrw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've tried to download Firefox (16 Mb) from the Mozilla site about ten
>> times, but it always terminates with an error message (or a small 
>> file, 1=
> .3
>> Mb or so - that claims to be "complete"). It times-out, if that is 
>> what i=
> t's
>> doing,  at different times and lengths. The best download  so far 
>> stopped=
>  at
>> 5.6 Mb I'm using a 56K dial-up modem with Safari and Explorer on a G4 
>> and=
>  an
>> PPC 8500. Any suggestions as to what is happening here or if there is 
>> a w=
> ay
>> to restart the download at the point that it was interrupted, rather 
>> than
>> starting over?
>> Thanks for any assistance,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
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