Safari 5: Best Choice for PowerPC Macs Running Leopard?
I leapfrog from browser to browser, checking out latest releases and trying to find the fastest and most stable version on my older PowerPC Macs (my current workhorse is a 500 MHz TiBook). But what...
View ArticleIs Tiger or Leopard Better for Sub-867 MHz G4 Macs?
I’ve been using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on an unsupported Mac for a few months now. It is a 500 MHz Titanium PowerBook G4 with 1 GB of RAM. It runs a lot better than you might think, and I am happy using...
View ArticleTenFourFox and Flash: The Future of PowerPC Macs on the Web
Web browsing on older Macs is harder. How long can the PowerPC platform survive? I use my iBook for web work and writing – nothing heavy – but this is becoming more and more tricky as each month...
View ArticleTenFourFox Is the Hands Down Winner for OS X 10.4 Tiger
Safari held its own for years, and Camino remains a very nice, speedy browser, but for OS X 10.4 Tiger users, Firefox had them both beat – and then the Firefox team stopped supporting Tiger and PowerPC...
View ArticleTenFourFox 17 the Last to Support Plugins
The future of PowerPC web browsing is looking even bleaker with the recent announcement of no plugin support in future releases of TenFourFox. Mozilla released Firefox 4 in April 2011. This was the...
View ArticleFlash 11 Hack for PowerPC Updated to 11.7
PowerPC Mac owners can now experience Flash 11.7 with the latest unofficial hack update. Less than a week ago I informed you that the fantastic Adobe Flash hack that brought Flash 11.1 to PowerPC Macs...
View ArticleWhat Is the Best Leopard Browser for PowerPC Macs?
A while back, I explained why TenFourFox is without a doubt the best browser option for anyone running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on a PowerPC Mac. Today I follow that up by looking at two contenders for the...
View ArticleYouTube on G4 Macs: The Battle Is Not Lost
We old time G4 users have grown used to the neglect by Apple and Adobe, which want to lure us into buying their newfangled stuff by constantly locking out older hardware. But, my fellow G4 users, the...
View ArticleWhen Is Your PowerPC Mac Too Old?
Charles Moore raises a good point in Thoughts on Using Older Macs as Work Machines: As much as we may love our old Macs, some of them just don’t have what it takes to be productive in the wired and...
View ArticleSpeed Up TenFourFox on Your PowerPC Mac
TenFourFox is an amazing browser and is responsible for keeping the PowerPC platform alive. But whether on a G3 , G4, or even a slower G5 processors it needs a bit of tweaking to optimise performance....
View ArticleTenFourFox Gives Us Firefox 4 Beta 7 for PowerPC Macs
2010 – As an OS X 10.4 Tiger holdout on my two beloved 10-year-old Pismo PowerBooks, I’ve been tracking the accelerating rate of attrition in Tiger-compatible Web browser support, but there are a few...
View ArticleEnd of the Road in Sight for OS X Tiger and Pismo PowerBooks
2012 – The proverbial bell is tolling louder for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and PowerPC Macs. 19 months ago I was delighted to discover that the TenFourFox hack of post-version 3.6 Firefox had given my two...
View ArticleFoxBox: Box Your Favorite Websites on Your PowerPC Mac
If you’re a loyal Low End Mac user, chances are you’ve heard of TenFourFox, the popular Firefox fork for PowerPC Macs. Few, however, have heard of TenFourFoxBox, a program for your OS X 10.4 or 10.5...
View ArticleOS X 10.4 Tiger Is Still Very Useful
Getting an old (2002) 700 MHz iMac G4 with just 512 MB of memory up and running reminded me of what a nice – and still useful – operating system Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is, especially on that old Apple...
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