Opera 10.63 or Safari 4.1.3, both of which are crash-prone in 10.4. Indeed, it's much more stable than either Is now at least as stable as any of the other remaining Tiger and In November seems to have been pretty much ironed out, and TenFourFox I'm happy to report that the bugginess that plagued the beta I tried So I have been doing so over the past week. Readers have suggested that it's time for me to try TenFourFox again, As I chronicled my browser adventures in Tiger, several OS X 10.4 browsing - all of which have their virtues and However, TenFourFox was well shy of being ready for prime timeīrowsing in late 2010, so I returned to SeaMonkey, Opera, OmniWeb, and recently Safari 4.1.3 for my Probably not much longer according to a Camino blog Variants, which still support PowerPC Macs and OS X 10.4 (but Smaller changes due to the older build system available to OS XĬhecking out a beta build of TenFourFox on the Pismo last fall, Iįound performance seemed to be pretty much on par with contemporaneous Such as its own JavaScript JIT accelerator, as well as a raft of Work with OS X Tiger, modified font code to remove Mozilla'sĭependency on CoreText, disables graphics acceleration and WebGL (whichĪre not compatible with Tiger), and includes PowerPC-specific code, They explain that TenFourFox contains modified widget code to Mozilla's source code, and subsequently security updates will still The developers pledge that new feature versions of TenFourFox willĬontinue to be released until it is no longer possible to compile Need them to do online for years to come, at least in theory. It will enable users'Ĭherished old PowerPC Macs, like my two going-on-11-years-old Pismo PowerBooks, to do what we Including faster JavaScript, WebM video, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 support,Īs well as new and emerging Web features. Release version of Firefox 4 and has nearly all the same features, TenFourFox, now out of beta, uses almost all the same code as the You can use Apple’s Migration Assistant to transfer everything from your old Mac or OS X, including Firefox.Last November, I reviewed the then-currentįloodGap's port of Firefox 4 for PowerPC Macs that supports bothĭeveloper,, dropped support for OS X 10.4 afterįirefox 3.6 and for PowerPC after the fourth beta of Firefox 4. If you do decide to upgrade your OS X or Mac, you don’t have to lose all of your Firefox settings and bookmarks. Officially, you’re also supposed to be running at least OS X 10.6.6 in order to upgrade via the Mac App Store (which OS X 10.5 can’t access) but there is a way to install Lion from a bootable DVD or USB drive. If you’re unsure about your Mac’s specification, go to the Apple icon in the top left corner of our screen and select “About This Mac”. To do this though, your Mac will need to be an Intel Mac with a minimum of Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor and at least 2 GB of RAM. It’s also highly likely that Apple will also stop supporting OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard soon too, so our advice is try to upgrade to at least OS X 10.7 Lion. Why You Should Upgrade Your MacĪn even more compelling reason to upgrade from OS X 10.5 is that since 2009, Apple has stopped supporting Leopard anymore meaning the entire OS is vulnerable to attack and serious stability issues. Mozilla take security very seriously and it’s also worth checking out the Mozilla Security Blog to see some of the work that goes into keeping Firefox safe. If you want to see just how many security threats have to be fixed on a regular basis by Mozilla, check out the latest Security Advisories for Firefox. Not only this, but you’ll also find that many add-ons or plugins simply won’t work with it anymore. We emphasize that using Firefox 16 is not a good idea because it is no longer updated or supported by Mozilla leaving it vulnerable to attack, malware, spyware and other online threats. Since Firefox 17 until the latest version of Firefox, you need at least OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher to run the browser safely and efficiently on your Mac. In this article, we look at the risks and problems of using Firefox 16 and highlight what your options are. In this case you’ll need Firefox 3.6 for Mac which was the last one to support PPC Macs but is even older and more vulnerable than Firefox 16. Note that this only works if you’re using an Intel Mac – if you’re still using OS X 10.5 or 10.4 on a PowerPC Mac, then we recommend this article about how to install Firefox on PPC Macs and OS X 10.4.11. However, we strongly recommend you upgrade to at least OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher as Firefox 16 is no longer updated by Mozilla and therefore not secure anymore. If you’re using OS X 10.5.8 Leopard then you can still download Firefox 16 for Macs which works on 10.5.8.
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