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Need help on a little computer / browser issue

Postby KleinerKiller » Thu May 10, 2018 8:01 am

About an hour ago, I got randomly booted off Chrome in the middle of doing something -- and then the Chrome icon down below completely disappeared, leaving an empty space that displayed the Chrome name when moused over but, when clicked, popped up the following message (which I didn't have the wherewithal to screencap): "You cannot open the app "Google Chrome" because PowerPC apps are no longer supported."

After a reset, I managed to get Chrome operational again and haven't encountered any problems yet, but the icon -- despite having full interaction restored -- is still gone despite all my efforts, and it's bugging the everloving fuck out of me.

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I'm on OS X El Capitan, so I'm slightly behind, but I haven't found many clear sources about a problem specifically like this. Apparently the alert is official, but it might also be linked to a bug that I might just have been fortunate enough to avoid until now, but also maybe not because I only found that on one obscure site? Hoping y'all can help.
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Re: Need help on a little computer / browser issue

Postby Grimstone » Thu May 10, 2018 12:04 pm

Try uninstalling and then re-installing chrome?
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Re: Need help on a little computer / browser issue

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu May 10, 2018 4:55 pm

Are you running PowerPC architecture or Intel? If it's Intel then re-install the program and it'll change versions to the proper version for your computer. If you're running PowerPC then you might be screwed as Apple supposedly no longer supports that architecture.
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Re: Need help on a little computer / browser issue

Postby cmsellers » Thu May 10, 2018 6:01 pm

Have you tried unlocking it from the launcher, then reopening it?
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Re: Need help on a little computer / browser issue

Postby Australia » Thu May 10, 2018 9:45 pm

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