#Firefox for mac 10.4.11 powerpc software#

Strangely enough, my system can play DVDs at full-screen with no problem whatsoever.ĭoes anyone know of any good, lightweight, web browsers (or alternatively, a way that I can get Youtube working within TenFourFox 24?) I'm also downloading the iBook optimized Firefox 4.0 to try that out (though that seems a little outdated, seeing as the newest version is about 20 versions newer.) I've read over this thread: and it suggests changing the power to Best Performance, turning off hardware acceleration, and upping the Flash cache size to 10MB, all of which I have done. My experience of Roccat has always been terrible - even if I helped translating its menus.I have an iBook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 and I really would like to watch youtube videos, but it is very choppy and generally impossible to watch! So, be sure to test the latest version on a fresh profile on a well maintained computer. I haven't done those tests on the latest version but I can believe it would be even slower, hence the only 4 stars I give. I've done some tests on my G4, including and and both show v38.10 as a lot better than v31.8 (v45.7 is yet a bit better but not that much).īut when it comes to real life testing, it's another story: v38 takes 6s more to launch, and every site I've tried is slower (from 1 to 10s more, depending on the site's complexity).

The purpose of TFF is not to give you the fastest browser ever but to let you run a nearly up to date browser on your old machines.Īs I mentioned in a former review, if you value more speed, stick to version 31.8.

#Firefox for mac 10.4.11 powerpc software#

One word of warning though: Tenfourfox follows Firefox development, meaning that, as any growing software since computers exist, it gets slower across versions. Be careful to pick the right version for your processor and be aware that also Firefox can mess up an old profile (it happened to me in the past!), especially with some extensions) )ĭon't believe the absurd bad reviews below! :-D I've tested all recent versions on an iMac G5 2.1 GHz and a Mac Mini G4 1.25 GHz. I've also applied the fonts advice on my Intel Macs with Waterfox and Firefox. Now, with its RAM maxed out, TFF's built-in basic adblock alone is the overall best choice - if you don't mind trackers, etc.īefore applying those advices, TFF ate CPU for 50s at launch before calming down, then nearly the same time for loading very heavy sites: now I've achieved 20s launch time and even the heaviest site takes less than 20s to display ('normal' pages load between 4s and 8s). My little G4 mini was lacking RAM until today, so it was faster filtering heavy pages with uBlock +uMatrix +Decentraleyes (as calculations were made in virtual memory i.e.

final point: built-in basic adblock of TFF.

my second point is about extensions: most of you already know it, but keep them as few as possible.

Thanks to TFF's dev, I've learned that those browsers enumerate the available fonts in your system, so minimizing their number will gain a considerable amount of time, especially for slow machines.

My FPR15 review will be more of a 'best practices with TFF and any Firefox based browser': For these and other reasons, TenFourFox does not run plugins, and they cannot be enabled. Most importantly, Adobe Flash for PowerPC is no longer maintained and has known security risks that can crash or leak data, some sites require versions not available on the PowerPC, and QuickTime for Leopard will lose its own support with the release of OS X Lion. Plugins on PowerPC are of special concern because Mozilla is making updates to their plugin architecture which may require the plugins themselves to be updated, and there are certain difficult-to-correct bugs with them already on Tiger. Sites will now act as if no plugins were installed at all. TenFourFox no longer supports plugins or Flash - As of the previous TenFourFox 6.0, for the following reasons plugin support ships disabled.

On the G4 Mac open the Terminal app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the command machine. If you feel unsure what type of PowerPC processor your Mac has, go to the Apple menu and choose 'About this Mac' and check the processor field.

It comes in different tuned versions for specific PowerPC processor families: TenFourFox is a fast, efficient Web browser always based on the current version of Firefox, but unlike the main distribution TenFourFox is compatible with OS X 10.4 and 10.5 running on PowerPC processors.