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Can you please tell me how to turn off your "Update plugins" pop up window? My Quicktime is updated although you say it's not. My Java is updated, although you

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say it's not. My shockwave is out of date, but can't be updated as there is not a newer version for powerpc based Macs. Thank you.

say it's not. My shockwave is out of date, but can't be updated as there is not a newer version for powerpc based Macs. Thank you.

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hello, enter "about:config" into the address bar of the browser, confirm the info dialog, then search for the preference named "plugins.hide_infobar_for_outdated_plugin" & double-click it in order to toggle it to "true".

please note that firefox also won't support the ppc architecture any longer, however if you want to use an up-to-date browser based on firefox you can switch to "tenfourfox" , the downside would be: it doesn't support plugins at all - Firefox no longer works with Mac OS X 10.4 or PowerPC processors

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Thank you very much!