Real player for Mac download site hangs Safari
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From: James Jolley on 17 Jan 2010 16:12 On 2010-01-17 19:26:23 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said: > On 2010-01-17 19:21:03 +0000, Richard Tobin said: > >> In article <D.Gray-42A6F8.19042617012010(a)nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk>, >> Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: >> >>> It hangs Safari 4.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. Good work Real. >> >> Surely you mean "Good work Apple". > > Hard to say - it doesn't hang Safari here. Though Safari 4.0.4 on 10.6.2. Same here, it works as expected at least. Having no 10.4 machine these days I can't help.
From: Rowland McDonnell on 17 Jan 2010 18:23 jonny <jonny(a)no-email.org> wrote: > Dorian Gray wrote: > > This is the URL advertised to download the free Real player for Mac OS X > > (don't click on it without reading below): > > > > <http://www.real.com/mac/realplayer> > > > > It hangs Safari 4.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. Good work Real. > > I downloaded 11.1 for Mac last month, and it refused to run on my > machine, even after deleting the .plist files from ~/Preferences folder. > > I don't think Real want to play with Mac users anymore, I think they are > too upset about iTunes. :) Who cares? The BBC's dropped Real audio streams, hasn't it? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: James Taylor on 17 Jan 2010 20:50 Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Who cares? The BBC's dropped Real audio streams, hasn't it? Not entirely. There are still some Real streams available, although they're slightly harder to find because the BBC site emphasises their iPlayer instead. I use the Real streams to listen to Radio 4 and the World Service here in Thailand on my Linux desktop. -- James Taylor
From: Rowland McDonnell on 17 Jan 2010 21:15 James Taylor <usenet(a)oakseed.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell wrote: > > > Who cares? The BBC's dropped Real audio streams, hasn't it? > > Not entirely. There are still some Real streams available, although > they're slightly harder to find because the BBC site emphasises their > iPlayer instead. I use the Real streams to listen to Radio 4 and the > World Service here in Thailand on my Linux desktop. <surprised> I'm sure the Beeb told me it had stopped doing the Real stream for R4. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Dorian Gray on 18 Jan 2010 09:09
In article <1jchdjd.pgxpcw1s3gyrmN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > >> It hangs Safari 4.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. Good work Real. > > > > > > Surely you mean "Good work Apple". > > > > Hard to say - it doesn't hang Safari here. Though Safari 4.0.4 on 10.6.2. > > Certainly doesn't hang Firefox 3.5.7 in OS 10.4.11. Nor, as far as I can > see, Safari 4.0.4. What do you mean "as far as you can see"? Did you try it, and if so, did it hang it or not? Here it hangs Safari every time, never gets past the Loading whirlygig at the right-hand end of the location bar, cannot interrupt the endless loading, other Safari windows can be selected from the Dock list but all of them are frozen, menus don't work, application not responsive to keypresses. Does not recover in many hours. Force quit required (the menu does not tell me the application is not responding). Same thing happens after a force quit. Same thing happens after a machine restart. |