TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Vic Mabus
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,

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Nestamicky
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,

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Fabian Fang
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

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Mike
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

Re: TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox 4 for the Power Macintosh and Mac OS X Tiger PowerPC

2011-03-25 Thread Mike
Sorry for the double-email, but I completely forgot about Safari. PowerMac G4 Graphite AGP (1GHz Sonnet Encore/ST Upgrade Processor, 1.5GB PC100 SDRAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 40GB IDE): (Higher is better) Safari 4.1.3: *763* TenFourFox 4.0: *597* Camino 2.0.7: *256* Camino errored on an

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-12 Thread Bill Connelly
This thread gave me the idea to go back and re-connect with Safari 4.0.4 (under Leopard 10.5.8 on my DA Dual 533). It seems to load pages so much faster than Firefox 3.5.7. I've been using Firefox solely for a year or so ... Export Booksmarks to an html file on the Desktop, then Import

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-11 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I just downloaded Camino. Seems to work ok (I've been using Firefox 3.5.7 or iCab). I am not getting any music to play on www.myspace.com though. Any suggestions? When I switched to Camino, I had to re-install some itemslike Flash Player. I got everything working by making a

Netscape Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-11 Thread DAN A CURRIE
Hello All, I have been using one version or another of Netscape since I got my first MAC (Performa 630CD) back in '95. Now that old horse is slowly fading away and slowing down. I have been getting acquainted with Firefox, but I would like to move my Netscape bookmarks over to Firefox.

Re: Netscape Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:47 AM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: Hello All, I have been using one version or another of Netscape since I got my first MAC (Performa 630CD) back in '95. Now that old horse is slowly fading away and slowing down. I have been getting acquainted with Firefox, but I would

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Evan Thomas
On 10 February 2010 07:48, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 9, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mozilla announced they will drop tiger for future Firefox releases. So, will Tiger using folks be forced to move up to Leopard? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Evan Thomas wrote: Very happy with Firefox 3.5.2. You should update to 3.5.7 for the bug and security fixes; or 3.6 which is the current GM version. I think 3.6 has one really nice new feature, that is new tabs open next to the active tab rather than at the

Mozilla Firefox vs Camino

2010-02-10 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I've already dropped Firefox and have been very happy with Camino on 10.4.11 10.5.8 10.6.2 John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Camino is a very fast reliable browser. I gave up Firefox in favor of Camino a few months agoand I rarely look back. Larry -- You received this message

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Nestamicky
On 2/10/10 12:57 AM, Mike Linnett wrote: Mozilla announced they will drop tiger for future Firefox releases. So, will Tiger using folks be forced to move up to Leopard? This is getting really tiring. What's next...computers with Tiger will no longer be able to go online? -- You received

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Kasey Smith
Nope, we will still use Safari, Opera, Camino... the list goes on. On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mozilla announced they will drop tiger for future Firefox releases. So, will Tiger using folks be forced to move up to Leopard? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Kasey Smith
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Evan Thomas wrote: Very happy with Firefox 3.5.2. You should update to 3.5.7 for the bug and security fixes; or 3.6 which is the current GM version. I think 3.6 has one really nice new feature, that is new

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:24 AM, Kasey Smith wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Evan Thomas wrote: Very happy with Firefox 3.5.2. You should update to 3.5.7 for the bug and security fixes; or 3.6 which is the current GM version. I think

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread JoeTaxpayer
At some point updates to software won't run on a given OS. That's life, no? My prized G4 MDDs cannot load Snow Leopard (that I know). At some point, I'd imagine, Firefox will want an Intel chip, and won't run on the G4 or G5 for that matter. On Feb 10, 9:06 am, Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Brown
On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:30 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: At some point updates to software won't run on a given OS. That's life, no? My prized G4 MDDs cannot load Snow Leopard (that I know). At some point, I'd imagine, Firefox will want an Intel chip, and won't run on the G4 or G5 for that matter.

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Dan
At 1:39 AM -0600 2/10/2010, Stephen Conrad wrote: Mozilla announced they will drop tiger for future Firefox releases. This is a great example of the press creating FUD for the frack of it! The announcement, by the Mozilla Foundation, was put out back in September 2009 -- 5 MONTHS AGO! But

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread John Martz
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote: I'd imagine, Firefox will want an Intel chip, and won't run on the G4 or G5 for that matter. Depends on what you mean by won't run on the G4 or G5. Since Firefox is open source it's always possible (in theory at

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Dan
At 9:59 AM -0600 2/10/2010, Jason Brown wrote: To an extent yes. However I see no reason that someone cant trick the newer versions of Firefox to install on 10.4. It will be possible, of course, to take specific patches out of the trunk (Minefield) and wedge them back into the 3.6 fork, even

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread Dan
At 11:24 AM -0500 2/10/2010, John Martz wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote: I'd imagine, Firefox will want an Intel chip, and won't run on the G4 or G5 for that matter. Depends on what you mean by won't run on the G4 or G5. Since Firefox is

Re: Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-10 Thread John Niven
I just downloaded Camino. Seems to work ok (I've been using Firefox 3.5.7 or iCab). I am not getting any music to play on www.myspace.com though. Any suggestions? -- 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

Mozilla Firefox

2010-02-09 Thread Stephen Conrad
Mozilla announced they will drop tiger for future Firefox releases. So, will Tiger using folks be forced to move up to Leopard? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space.