Thank you for reminding me about TenFourFox! I just did some browser benchmarking, and here are my results (Disclaimer: I am by no means a professional benchmarker!):
I decided to give it a try on these machines and see what happens. I found a browser benchmark called Peacekeeper from Futuremark to really see which one is better. PowerMac G4 Graphite (1GHz Sonnet Encore/ST Upgrade Processor, 1.5GB PC100 SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 40GB IDE): (Higher is better) TenFourFox 4.0: 597 Camino 2.0.7: 256 Camino errored on an unresponsive Javascript, but was able to continue. These aren't the best comparisons since Camino is based off of Firefox 3 while TenFourFox is based off of Firefox 4, however Camino was updated 2 days ago, so it will be a while to wait until both distributions can be compared to each other with the same Firefox rendering engine. The difference is significant though, TenFourFox scores much better. PowerBook G4 (667MHz PowerPC G4, 1GB PC133 SDRAM, ATI Rage M6, 45GB Laptop IDE): (Higher is better) TenFourFox 4.0: 372 Camino: 165 TenFourFox repeated the same unresponsive Javascript error while Camino didn't this time, but also was able to continue. Interestingly enough, the scores were much lower overall than the Graphite. While the bus speed is 33mhz faster, the slower hard drive and lesser video card seemed to have a pretty big impact in performance. Overall, TenFourFox is now my perferred browser on my Ten Four machines! Mike On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Fabian Fang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Nestamicky wrote: > > On 25/03/11 9:54 PM, Vic Mabus wrote: >> >>> Remember how you tried to update Firefox in Tiger and it didn't work? >>> http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ >>> This is from the Clasilla guys; it's optimized for each of the G >>> processors. The devs promise "dramatically faster JavaScript, WebM >>> video, compatibility with most Firefox add-ons, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 >>> support <http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/technology/>." >>> >>> Preliminary testing indicates "pretty snappy" on Pismo 500 with >>> gig-o-ram. >>> V Mabus >>> >> Alas, help for us poor, or shall, I say, "cheap" folks. Thanks, Vic. >> > > > The development of "TenFourFox" was announced and discussed on the LEM > Tiger Group, the logical forum, months ago. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
