Ensure that freenet is actually running. Personally I run Linux and Freenet 0.5, but I'm thinking it'll probably be about the same. Just look for and run 'start-freenet.sh'. It might take a while for that to start up, so give it a few minutes before trying to get to 
<a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888">127.0.0.1:8888</a>.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Dougall</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:bend@freenet.co.uk">bend@freenet.co.uk</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br><br>I can&#39;t get Freenet working on OS X 10.2.8.<br><br>I&#39;ve installed Freenet (
0.7) which appears to have gone successfully:<br>in Applications there&#39;s a folder called Freenet with a number of files<br>inside, including welcome.html which says I&#39;ve successfully installed<br>it. The next instruction is to access 
<a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/">http://127.0.0.1:8888/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;-- this I<br>can&#39;t do. In both Safari and Firefox. I&#39;ve tried a number of different<br>things but that page can&#39;t be accessed at all.<br><br>Any ideas why it&#39;s not possible for me to follow the configure
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