Thanks so much, Dan. Yes, TenFourFox is amazing. I can understand why
it doesn't support plugins. It's a shame it doesn't though, but I
understand why. Only reason I'd want a plugin is because of Veetle, it
streams HD video and plays great full screen on the Mac, but it uses a
plugin and not a stand-alone player.
Thanks for the thread on Flash, working great for me. Although youtube
worked better with the old flash, but then HTML 5 in TFF works
astonishingly well.
I'm still full of hate for Apple for discontinuing support, there's no
reason to pull all support out of the OS releases, unless it's part of
the agreement they had with Intel. I'm guessing Intel probably
mandated it. I have an old PC from the same era comfortably running
Windows 7, in comparison. As long as this Mac will do what I want it
to do - iTunes, DVD, download from the web, surf the web, email,
USENET, AIM, YIM and Skype, I don't see any reason to go out and spend
another $3000 on a new Mac right now, although I am tempted to get a
G5, I'm just not sure how to migrate everything from the G4 to a G5,
and if I should swap out my 128MB 4600Ti from the G4 to the G5 with
it's 32MB default card.
Thanks again,
Darryl
On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:58 PM -0500 2/21/2012, Darryl Jones wrote:
G4 Quicksilver 2002 here, with 1.5GB RAM, GeForce 4600Ti graphics,
and dual Sonnet Encore processors. Running 10.5.8 and 10.3.9 to
support my old ProTools hardware.
Nice. I'm using a QS 2002 also.
I recently found a lot of software which should keep it alive for a
while longer....a new browser based on the current Firefox, but it
doesn't do plugins, Mactubes for Youtube watching, OpenOffice, and
even a current version of Skype.
I've been using TenFourFox more and more. Cameron has done a
wonderful job with it.
RPM has a nice optimized build of Camino (and other stuff).
http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/index.html
Check out the new release of LibreOffice - the latest incarnation of
OpenOffice.
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
If only there was a new Flash or someone knows a way to spoof the
flash version number in OS X
See the thread on this list, subj "PPC Flash Player UPDATE NEWS" for
directions on how to hack the Flash plug-in. Donno how useful it
is; I haven't bothered with it, yet.
Which brings me to my question. I spoof the browser and hardware
version in Firefox. I can get to, without any nags or warnings, the
Netflix streaming site, but when it gets to actually playing a
movie, it tells me I need to upgrade Silverlight. I have the last
Silverlight that was supported for PPC. My question is, does anyone
know of a way to spoof the version number of Silverlight?
Nothing to hack - the newer Silverlight, vers 3 and newer, are x86
builds only and videos that require it simply won't play on the
older vers, afaik.
- Dan.
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