Mac os 10.4.11 update problems

hi!
i ve been trying here in this forum to solve a problem im experiencing ever since i updated to mac osx 10.4.11.thing is none of my web browsers is able to open in good condition some web pages-such as google or gmai,my space,etc- the mentioned pages all come with a messed up text as well as the fonts.i ve been trying some tips i got here but my problem isnt solved.
can anyone help please?!
rui

Yes, I think I understand, btw, that one picture of scrambled fonts wasn't what I was thinking, it was just there!
One workaround to try, (I still think you have something muxed), is try Safari>Preferences>Appearance, then set the Fonts and sizes to something else, and try a different Default Encoding... we may or may not get a clue from that.
You could also View the Source, then search for 'font-family', (without quotes), and look for the affected area that has crazy fonts, though it looks like only "arial,sans-serif" here, so that might be a good one to check in Font Book.

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Mac osx 10.4.11 update problem

hi!!
i took care of the duplicate fonts but i cant manage to post a grab here-cant find the file attachment-
but from the link u send me i must tell you that it aint the same,my font problem is only concerned with my web browsers,like,if i make a search on google,the font of the matches i get are all messed up,understand?
thanx very much!!!
rui

You can delete your fonts caches with TinkerTool System 1.8
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13662>
-click on Clean UP - then Fonts Caches
Good luck,
Tom

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baltwo wrote:
A Time Machine backup is only as good as what can be restored ...
This much is true of any backup.
... since the backup isn't checkable until you restore it
Fully checking a clone (IOW, not just that it will function as a startup disk but also that all the files it contains are readable or usable) is extremely time consuming. And since it is a duplicate of the volume it is backing up, it can & usually will inherit any problems of that source, especially if the copy method is a block (as opposed to file) copy. For this reason, I use SuperDuper! to make my clones, since unlike CCC or Disk Utility it always does a safer if slower file copy.
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Like most people I know I have gotten used to just doing the suggested Software Updates from Apple.
Never again!!! Time Machine for me from now on...
I have had a trouble free existence on my 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 upto 10.6.7
Now I am in the strange position of my Mac working fine from reboot but whenever I go near the file system either through Finder or even Save As in Pages etc the following happens...
1. the left button of the mouse stops working except the Apple menu!
2. any editable field e.g. browser window address bar, password in Skype or anything in a Pages document is selectable but can´t be changed!
3. I can´t cmd-tab through the open applications!
4. the menu bar no longer changes when I change applications!
it is possible there are other issues that I have not yet found.
Everything goes fine once I reboot until I go near the File System again.
When I installed 10.6.8 it did crash at the end and asked if I wanted to send a report to Apple which I did.
I did also update the AirPort Utility, Java for Mac OS X 19.6 Update 5 and iTunes 10.3.1 at the same time.
Following other suggestions I have now installed the Mac OS X Combined Update but this did not change anything.
Until someone can help I will be rebooting my Mac a lot.

So...fixed my issue and it was not related to the updates, it was just coincidence.
What I finally did was take a video of the startup screen and was able to see that what was happening was fsck was failing, and then the system just halted. This info presumably makes it to dmesg, but not to system.log (huge oversight IMO). So its not easily discerned.
Once I figured that out I googled around and this guy's page helped me fix the problem:
http://blog.jbheren.com/post/2011/02/09/repair-hfs-volume-on-osx
Specifically I had to boot into single user (command+S at the startup sound)
and issue:
fsck_hfs -ypr /dev/rdisk0s2
Then I did
reboot
and here we are

Java broken in Firefox after Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3

After having updated my mac this morning with the latest Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, Java in Firefox is no longer working. When I open a site that contains a java applet (like javatester.org) I get the following output in the Console, and then Firefox hangs.
21.10.10 11:44:15 [0x0-0x33033].org.mozilla.firefox[649] ### MRJPlugin: getPluginBundle() here. ###
21.10.10 11:44:15 [0x0-0x33033].org.mozilla.firefox[649] ### MRJPlugin: CFBundleGetBundleWithIdentifier() succeeded. ###
21.10.10 11:44:15 [0x0-0x33033].org.mozilla.firefox[649] ### MRJPlugin: CFURLGetFSRef() succeeded. ###
Any ideas??

Problem solved!
For some reason I had an additional "Java" Folder (/Library/Java) with a different Java sdk. After removing this folder and (just to be sure) replacing it with a symlink to /System/Library/Java everyting works again.

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