[macvoiceover] Re: Safari unusable! Help, tips?

  • From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 20:01:06 -0600

Hi Nicole

As someone else pointed out, the checkbox I was talking about is only in Lion.  
I'm sure there is a General option in Snow Leopard though… you may need to 
press the tab key to get to it, again as someone else suggested.

Apologies for the confusion Nicole.

Russell
On 2011-08-31, at 6:11 PM, Nicole Hutchins wrote:

> Russel,
> I tried to do this but I don't have a "General" option in system preferences. 
> I have "seeing" "Hearing" "Mouse and track pad" and "Keyboard". Is the 
> "General" option somewhere else?
> 
> Nicole
> On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
> 
>> Hi Olivia,
>> 
>> Try this…
>> 
>> To stop Safari, and, all other apps, from opening the last open window, go 
>> to system preferences, choose the General option, and uncheck the choice 
>> that says, "restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".  I did this 
>> and my Safari experience has been much improved.
>> 
>> Olivia, this should take care of the problem you are experiencing.
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Russell
>> 
>> On 2011-08-27, at 6:06 PM, Olivia Norman wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> My computer seems to have opened some kind of stupid advertisement, which 
>>> is causing safari to be unusable. Every time I try and open safari it tells 
>>> me safari is busy, and when I restart my machine it just goes back to the 
>>> advertisement page.  Is there some way to reset safari and clear my history 
>>> with out opening the application?  How can I make safari forget this thing 
>>> so tht I can use it again?  It's annoying, to say the least, and restarting 
>>> my computer with out resuming window positions doesn't seem to resolve it.
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>> Olivia
>>> 
>>> "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower", Steve Jobs
>>> 
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