Hello Everyone, my company is using OneDrive on Mac - and I would like to enable 'Files on Demand' for our users. There's one particular user however, where this feature can't be enabled simply because the button is not shown. When the Mac reboots into the Bootcamp Windows installer, hold down the power button to shut down, then press and hold Option+Power to restart into the Mac bootloader. Select and boot the OS X partition. In OS X, run Disk Utility. Reduce the size of the OS X partition, then create a new partition for Ubuntu in the empty space.

It also lets you remap the Scroll Wheel Button to some useful functions like Mission Control and it features a refined Smooth-Scrolling algorithm, which I think strikes a great balance between fluidity and control. Mac Mouse Fix is very light on system resources and it's a System Preferences Plugin so there's no status bar item. Sometimes the only method to restart a Mac, especially in the situation the Mac will not restart using the power button, is to unplug the computer. Take the mac’s power plug out of the surge protector. Wait one minute before plugging the Mac back in. The power button should now function and be able to start and restart the computer. The one button is left mouse button click, or space. This game is a one button endless runner game where you avoid spikes and jump on platforms. More information.

Click here to return to the 'One-button access to Firefox's contextual menu' hint

If I'm not mistaken, every web browser since Netscape 2.x has had this feature (IE, Netscape, iCab, Opera, OmniWeb, etc.). I doubt it's been posted to many web sites, so I'm glad you did. Now everyone who's anyone will know.. 8-)
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Safari doesn't behave this way..
..and I tried it on Firefox, and it is cool!

This feature has been around in Mozilla as long as I can remember, even IE has it, which means it really has been around for years (when did the last feature update to IE happen, 2001?).

Dude, this thing is really old. You know - it's older then the whole IE on the Mac. The even older then the whole IE! I've been using Netscape since version 1.1 (was that back in '95 or am I already too senile?). I think the contextual menus were really implemented in 2.0 as the original poster said. So about '96 or so. Which is like a millennium before 2001 in web terms.
Actually, at that time, there was still System 7. No contextual menus there! And the Mac had a one-button mouse. So the Netscape engineers had to think of a work-around to implement the Windows features. That's where this click-and-hold came from.

So, just to sum it up, I believe Safari is the first Mac browser NOT having this feature. I guess Apple wanted to unify the contextual menu workings of OS and browser.

I had become so accustomed to this hold-for-drop-down behaviour in my Mac browsers (Netscape 2+, M$IE, Mozilla and now FireFox) that when I use Safari (Adobe's Help files always open in it, even though I have FireFox as my default) I wind up wondering why nothing happens when I continue to hold the button down..

I requested Apple to implement this click-and-hold-for-contextual-menu as a systemwide feature a while back. My argument is that this feature works great with Apple's one button mouse. If you click and hold any item on your dock, a relevant contextual menu will appear.

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or break down and buy a two button mouse..

it is a common keystroke for the auto-complete feature of software IDEs, and that is how i stumbled upon it.
helpful I guess if you are typing in a text field and don't want to use the mouse or something.

I've seen this in Mozilla as well. Actually, I find it somewhat annoying, since I occasionally highlight text to keep focused on what I'm reading, or to improve the contrast, and then, if I hover too long, Mozilla pops up a 'helpful' context menu over the text I was trying to read. But then, I use Safari for most things these days.

As for button use on laptops, I'd go nuts without SideTrack, and highly recommend it to all iBook/PowerBook users. Not just more mouse buttons, but also vertical and horizontal 'scroll wheels'. And freeware, at least until it emerges from beta (more stable as a beta device driver than some 'released' apps -- never had the slightest bit of trouble from it).

.. would be to *stop* the behavior from happening in the Toolbar Bookmarks area.
I have lots of folders in there, which become menus. I tend to click once to open the menu, then click and hold on a menu item while I decide if I really want to go there. The bloody contextual menu pops up and is very hard to get rid of if you hold too long. You either end up trying to ignore it or hitting escape which disappears both your contextual menu and the Bookmaks Toolbar menu you were trying to make a selection from.

Or you could use the newest version of the SIDETRACK driver on your laptop, and map a corner to 'Mouse Button 2' and have a corner to hit for the contextual menu.
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I suggest using sidetrack to map the mouse BUTTON on the powerbook to be the RIGHT-CLICK, then use the 'tapping' on the powerbooks trackpad to function as the LEFT-CLICK. Just a suggestion.

If I rember correctly, Micro$oft just recently applied for and recieved a pattent on how the mouse works and the methods in which you can do different things with it depending on the number of clicks or the length of time the button is depressed. For myself I think Micro$oft should be taken out and shot for even sugesting that they had anythng to do with the development of the Mouse, that is short of copying the idea from Apple and xerox.
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https://softwarelean.mystrikingly.com/blog/memory-pig-mac-os. The MS patent referred to in the parent comment (and in the following comment) is not applicable to the Mac. That patent is applicable only to 'substantially smaller palm-type computers'.

The MS patent referred to in the parent comment (and in the preceding comment) is not applicable to the Mac. That patent is applicable only to 'substantially smaller palm-type computers'.

And it only referred to specific type of inputting on a touch screen with a stylus. I love the slashdot herd mentality.
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Heh.. this is how contextual menus were introduced on the Mac in the first place. Control-clicking was an alien concept and appealed mostly to power users who didn't like to wait two seconds for the menu to appear. Two-button mice were even more alien.
Try holding down the mouse button on icons in the Dock, or on the back button in Safari.

So, pressing and holding the mouse is nice, but I find myself with the opposite question: is there a way to bring up the contuxual menu with a key stroke in OS X? Often I'm in a text field typing and want to make a spelling correct without reaching for the mouse. Windows keyboards have a special key for it. Is there a way to do it on the Mac?

I use ittec pref pane to achieve this.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8025
It works perfectly with 10.3.5.

I found out about a browser called Shiira, which is an open-sourced browser pretty much built from the same engine as Safari. Anyway, among other features, the click-and-hold feature is offered in Shiira, which allows not only contextual menus for links, images, etc., but also a nice back/forward history simpy by clicking and holding on the respective button on the button bar. Oh, and by the way, the button bar can also be customized, a feature that I was surprised Apple left out of Safari.

Another nice feature for those of you who are into simply testing the browser alongside Safari, but not yet ready to completely ditch Safari, there's also a feature that would allow you to syncronize and share bookmark sets.

I've just started using Shiira, and I'm already in love :-)

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let's not forget good ol' finderpop [www.finderpop.com] from the OS 9 days! when i upgraded to X, i was very sad to let finderpop go.
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I can't believe anyone LIKES this. It was cool back when Netscape was brand new (or maybe 2.0, as another post suggested) but it's downright annoying now. Since every mouse I own except those that have shipped with my Macs are multi-button mice, and since I don't really mind using Control from time to time, I find that the only time I use this feature is when it rears its head when I don't want it to. If I hold the mouse down for a second for whatever reason, I get the stupid menu in my way. And there's no way I know of to disable it.
I guess I'm glad you like it, as it means it's doing some good, but I can't imagine why. For $29 (or a lot less by now) you can have a nice optical mouse with two buttons.
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Obviously you are not a laptop user - you will be one day - as Apples sales have increasingly been dominated by laptops.
For a laptop only user like me, Click-and-Hold, is the ONLY way on a flight crammed into a seat - or in a factory floor with the PB on my lap - or holding the PB with one hand and mousing wih the other in a line at the Airport counter - etc.
Click-and-hold is the ONLY reason I dont use Safari and Camino - both of which are faster than FireFox.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have all three major operating systems (OS X, Windows, Ubuntu Linux) running on your computer! This is totally possible with a Mac. Here is how to do it. Hog: hands on goblins mac os.

You might be asking yourself why would someone want to be able to run three operating systems on one device. There are some programs, apps and games that are system specific. Some older PC games can only run on Windows. Some programs are only OS X compatible and vice versa. Some individuals might need run company-specific software that requires Windows or a Linux operating system but might prefer Mac’s OS X operating system for personal use and don’t want to use multiple computers or be stuck using an operating system they are not familiar with. For these individuals installing multiple operating systems on a Mac is a convenient feature.

Warning: the following steps are for intermediate to advanced computer users. Incorrectly performing the following steps may result in damage to your computer.

(with OS X 10.10 Yosemite, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

1. In OS X, remove the Core Storage designation from your OS X partition.

• Turn off FileVault encryption in the System Preferences under Security if you have it enabled. Note: it can take up to 3-4 hours to unencrypted the drive.
• Restart in recovery mode by pressing and holding Command + R during the reboot process.
• Once in recovery mode, run Disk Utility. Turn off any disk encryption if enabled, which is at the file setting on the top bar. You might notice that your hard disk name changes.

• Restart computer again in OS X. Run Disk Utility. Now the “dragging” corner to partition your hard drive is available. Click on it and resize the Mac HD to however many GB (gigabytes) you may need to run your multiple OS’s ( Windows OS and Ubuntu).
• Restart into Windows OS. Download the free software Minitool partition. This software allows you to merge unused space on your Mac HD with your Windows partition.

2. Launch OS X Bootcamp. Create a Windows installation USB drive (I've created both Windows 8 and 10) and create a hard drive partition for Windows.
3. When the Mac reboots into the Bootcamp Windows installer, hold down the power button to shut down, then press and hold Option+Power to restart into the Mac bootloader. Select and boot the OS X partition.

4. In OS X, run Disk Utility. Reduce the size of the OS X partition, then create a new partition for Ubuntu in the empty space. File format on the Ubuntu partition shouldn't matter at this point. I used FAT.

5. Create an Ubuntu installation disk whatever way you prefer with (I believe) whatever version you prefer.

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6. Shutdown again and hold Option+Power restart to get to the Mac bootloader, then select the Ubuntu install disk (should be labeled EFI, there might be two of them, either should work). Reformat the partition you created in Step 4 for Ubuntu and complete the installation process, then shutdown. (If you reboot into the Mac bootloader at this point, Ubuntu should not be visible).

7. Power (not Option+Power) restart. Your Macbook should boot into the Bootcamp installation partition. Complete the Windows installation process normally. The Macbook will reboot several times. If ever it reboots into the wrong partition (it shouldn't), then manually shutdown, Option+Power boot, and select the Bootcamp partition manually.

8. Almost done. After Windows is fully installed and you can use it normally, Option+Power reboot into OS X, then install rEFInd.
Shutdown and perform a regular boot. You will arrive at the rEFInd menu with a 20-second timer, and all three OS’s should be visible. rEFInd is a handy piece of software that allows you to easily select the OS you want to boot into whenever you restart your Mac.

Note 1:

https://casino-ifk-online-aidbonus-juegos.peatix.com. I have had the problem, twice now, that whenever I install OS X updates, rEFInd disappears. When I power on the computer, it boots straight to OS X. This problem is fixed by simply reinstalling rEFInd from within OS X. Back to normal.

Note 2:

Some users might receive errors when returning to the Windows installation process. Julian Leland recommends clearing the hybrid MBR data from within OS X via this process.

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