I switched to the Nightly build of AuroraFox 17 on the suggestion of Tobias and 1 problem went away: my virtual memory usage went down by half.
I then removed Greasemonkey 1.6 and the rest of the problems went away entirely. Actually, I switched to Scriptish and have had no problems. I would vouch for AuroraFox 17 as the best PPC browser if you want to run plug-ins. Seamonkey 2.14 is almost as fast but not nearly as elegant and has far less extensions. The speediest stock browser on my G5 is OmniWeb 5.11.2, which is a bit of a mystery to me since Leopard Webkit is actually kind of slow. Maybe because OmniWeb is a closed browser? All I know is it runs scripts and things on Yahoo faster than Mozilla browsers even with NoScript controlling what loads. On Jan 21, 7:51 pm, crimsonRE <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using AuroraFox 17 for some months now on a 1GhHz PB under 10.5.8 > - no problems for my rather light-weight browsing, e.g., mostly text while > searching forums for answers to tech questions about ancient HW/SW (the > G3-5 list, for example!). The only time it bogs down is when I have more > than a few tabs looking at eBay items... > > Cheers, > Michael -- -- 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
