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For detailed information on security updates, please visit this website: Apple security updates. The Best Browsers for Older Macs Running Tiger. Last week fellow Low End Mac columnist Simon Royal posted a feature comparing nine Web browsers in the context of use on G3 and older G4 Macs. That’s a space I inhabit. While I no longer have any G3 machines in active service, my wife is still using a 700 MHz iBook G3 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger, and I have two old Pismo PowerBooks in production and road warrior service, both with 550 MHz G4 processor upgrades and also running 10.4.11. Even my main production workhorse, a 1.33 GHz 17″ PowerBook G4, is a not exactly spring’s chicken, but it runs Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Being something of a browser-follower, I enjoyed reading Simon’s article, but I was interested at how much his impressions and experiences deviated from my own, given that we’re using somewhat similar hardware and the same OS version. Opera. Simon looked at Opera 9.5.2 on his 400 MHz Pismo PowerBook G3, which he rated as having come a long way in the past year, but still way behind its competitors. He described Opera as slow to start up, slow to load pages, and the only browser not to render his website home page properly – and subjectively as having “one of the ugliest user interfaces I have seen in a long time; it looks very dated.” I use a lot of browsers, and Opera is my overall favorite for general surfing. Personally, I find it among the fastest browsers at any given time, both on my Tiger and Leopard machines. It is sluggish to start up, but that’s mitigated somewhat by its having the best, no-hassle session resume support of any Mac browser. It also has far and away the best download manager of any browser I’ve ever used, with a pause and resume feature that works dependably. I prefer the way Opera renders text, especially if it’s to be copied and pasted into a text editor, to most other browsers. I’m massively impressed with its stability even when downloading a dozen or more pages simultaneously over my dog-slow dialup connection (although stability has slipped a bit with the most recent builds, it’s still impressive) As for appearance, that’s a subjective judgment. I like Opera’s user interface, although I liked the previous version before Opera’s recent facelift better. I also love little things like buttons to toggle image loading on and off (huge when you’re stuck with dialup access) and page zooming on the main interface without having to root around in menus. Camino, Firefox, and Netscape. Simon turns out to be a big Camino fan, declaring it “fabulous”. I’m currently using Camino 1.6.4 as my Web-posting workhorse on one of my Pismos, and it’s a good browser, but I would rate it considerably lower than fabulous. Simon says Camino is incredibly fast even on his old G3 PowerBook. Perhaps it does a better job on broadband. It’s a bit of a slug on my (faster than Simon’s) Pismo on dialup. A bit of back story is in order here. My favorite of the Mozilla-based browsers, especially for older Macs, is the now-discontinued Netscape Navigator 9, which I find faster, more stable, and a happier camper on these old machines than any of its many cousins and siblings. It’s the one my wife uses on the old G3 iBook. It runs great on my Pismos too, but I prefer to use a current browser, so I tried Firefox 3, which is my number- two (after Opera) browser on my Leopard machine and does a good job there. However, I found that on the slower, memory-challenged (576 MB) Pismo, Firefox 3 was not a happy camper, driving me nuts with almost constant hard drive access and slowing everything else down. It doesn’t act that way on my 1.33 GHz PowerBook, which has 1.5 GB of RAM. I started using Camino 1.6.3 and 1.6.4 on the Pismo, but I find it slower than Navigator 9; menus are sluggish in responding, and it’s recalcitrant about popping to the front from the background with a click. It’s especially laggard about accepting text drags and drops from apps running in Classic Mode, which is something I do a lot of on that machine. As for appearance, Camino is attractive in a bland sort of way. I definitely prefer the Navigator 9 UI for looks, and I think I like Firefox 3’s appearance better than Camino’s as well, although the Aqua buttons in Camino are definitely nice. Simon found iCab fast; I do too, at least on some sites. iCab is usually up and running as a third browser on my Macs. He likes the way it renders pages, and I agree, but text copied and pasted from iCab requires a lot more cleanup than text from Opera, and I don’t find iCab any faster than Opera on most sites. Its download manager isn’t nearly as good. A concrete example is a download the other night that failed four times until I switched it to Opera, which brought the file down without a hitch. Shiira & Safari. Simon isn’t a fan of WebKit-based Shiira. I’m not a particular fan of any of the WebKit-based browsers, including Safari, although Safari does start up amazingly quickly. I find Shiira’s interface interesting, and Safari’s eye-glazingly boring, so I don’t use either much. I will be interested to find out how well I like Google’s WebKit-based Chrome browser when the Mac version finally lands. The Best? Simon thinks the best all-rounder among these browsers is Camino. I can’t agree. Camino is a very decent browser, but for older Macs, my pick for best all-rounder currently would be Navigator 9, although it’s no longer being supported or upgraded, so security and compatibility issues will grow over time. If SeaMonkey (the successor to the old-school Mozilla suite browser) keeps being developed and updated, it may be the better alternative, although its interface really is very dated and uninspiring. I love Opera and would not want to have to get along without it. I’m addicted to its dependability and feature set, notwithstanding the odd site that it chokes on for one reason or another. In such instances, on a machine that supports it comfortably, it’s hard to beat Firefox for all-round compatibility and solid performance. And if you like plugins (I don’t) it’s the one you want to have. Safari is a good browser, just an uncompelling one IMHO. iCab is a little wild card. It does most things very well, but other browsers beat it on particulars. However I like having it around. Комбинированное обновление Mac OS X (Intel) 10.4.11. Обновление 10.4.11 рекомендуется всем пользователям, работающим с операционной системой Mac OS X Tiger, и включает усовершенствования операционной системы общего характера, повышающие уровень стабильности, совместимости и безопасности компьютера Mac. Данное обновление также включает в себя Safari 3 — самую новую версию веб-браузера Apple. Подробную информацию об этом обновлении можно найти, посетив следующую веб-страницу: Об обновлении Mac OS X 10.4.11. Подробную информацию об обновлениях безопасности можно найти, посетив следующую веб-страницу: Обновления системы безопасности Apple. Browser for mac 10.4.11 download. Firefox notifies me that I'm not running the latest version (I have 3.6.24 GTB7.1) and to download the version compatible with my older system (Mac Tiger 10.4.11). I click on that link and can find nothing that states what systems the version(s) there are compatible with. I have in the past downloaded and installed an incompatible version, a situation to avoid for obvious reasons. Chosen solution. You have the latest version of Firefox for PPC Macs and for 10.4.11, the Firefox 4+ versions require Intel and 10.5.8 or higher. For older Macs that aren't supported in Firefox 4 thru 8, try TenFourFox for PowerPC's running Mac 10.4.11 & 10.5.8 . http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ All Replies (3) Moderator. Chosen Solution. You have the latest version of Firefox for PPC Macs and for 10.4.11, the Firefox 4+ versions require Intel and 10.5.8 or higher. 9 Browsers for G3 and Older G4 Macs. As a user of older Macs, especially G3s, lightweight apps make your day-to-day usage a lot easier, and this extends to web browsers. I recently tested as many browsers as I could find, but the test machine was my iMac Core Duo running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. After looking carefully at my results and some of the comments I received, I have retested some of the more lightweight browsers on my Pismo PowerBook G3. It is a 400 MHz with 1 GB of RAM, a new 5400 rpm 40 GB hard drive with AirPort Card and running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger with all the latest updates installed. There are a lot of browsers for Tiger, but some of them I wouldn’t put in the lightweight category and therefore didn’t include in my testing. Some of them, like Flock, while they will work on a G3, require a G4 for decent performance. Editor’s note: For those using older versions of OS X, we sometimes include system requirements for versions earlier than the one reviewed. Of the nine browser versions reviewed here, only four can run on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther – but that includes some of the best ones. Anyone still using Mac OS X 10.2 can’t run current versions of any of these browsers. These are the browsers I choose: Mozilla Browsers. WebKit Browsers. So let’s get started. Opera 9.52. Opera has come a long way in the past year, but it is still way behind its competitors. The app was slow to load, pages loaded slowly, and it was the only browser to not render my website home page properly, dropping the navigation pane to under the rest of the page. It is also has one of the ugliest user interfaces I have seen in a long time; it looks very dated. Opera 7 requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later; 8 requires 10.2 or later; 9 requires 10.3 or later. Mozilla Browsers. Camino 1.6.4. Camino is a great browser. It is a Mac OS X exclusive browser from the Mozilla team. I have used Camino on a number of systems, and the later versions (currently in beta stages) have been fabulous. Camino is a neat and tidy browser, and with most older Macs not supporting the higher resolutions of more modern Macs, screen space is more of an issue – and this slim and trim browser helps maximise the browser window. A rock solid browser, which is incredibly fast even on my PowerBook with the usual features that are standard in browsers these days like tabs and password remembering. Camino requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Firefox 3.0.2. Okay, so Firefox isn’t exactly lightweight, but as it is the biggest Mac browser, I thought I would throw it in. I use it a lot, even on my Pismo. As you would imagine, it is a lot slower to load than the others, and pages take a little while to load, but it renders them fine. The added bonus of having hundred of plugins for everything you could think of, makes this a highly customisable browser. Firefox 2 requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later; version 3 requires 10.4 or later. WebKit Browsers. iCab 4.2.0. iCab has been around for a long time. Its maker is one of the last software developers still making OS 9 software. This is the OS X version. This was extremely fast – even on this aging G3 – and it rendered pages perfectly. Pages loaded very quickly, even those that I hadn’t been to before. iCab 4 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later. Shiira 2.2. I have never been a fan of Shiira, even on higher spec’d systems. It is very unstable, and while it has gotten better with each new revision, it still has a long way to go. The app took a few more bounces on the Dock to load than most other browsers, but once open, pages loaded quite quickly and were rendered properly. Shiira 1.2.2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later; 2.2 requires 10.4 or later. Demeter 1.5 Beta 2. I was pointed to the Demeter browser by a fellow G3 enthusiast and was looking forward to trying it. It is supposed to be a “slimline Shiira”, and Shiira in turn is a revamped Safari. Is fast speed on old machines was touted as one of its best features. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the browser to work. The app opened fine and was very quick, but halfway through rendering pages, it kept quitting. Demeter 1.0.8 (stable) and 1.5 (beta) require Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Radon 1.0. Radon started off as a good browser, it was quite fast and rendered pages properly. However version 1.0 is the last version being developed for Tiger. Newer versions are Leopard-only, which considering you need a beast of a machine to run Leopard, you wouldn’t be too worried about a lightweight browser. Radon 1.0 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Sunrise 1.7.4. Sunrise was another browser pointed out by fellow user of older Macs, and I was very impressed with it. I had never heard of it before this test, and I was very surprised by it. The app loaded blindingly quick (within 2 Dock bounces), and the pages loaded extremely fast. There was one annoyance: When you type a web address in the address bar, it searches Google for it instead of taking you directly there. Sunrise requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later. Safari 3.1.2. Apple would have you believe this is the best browser for the Mac, and it has some very good points – but being the best isn’t one of them. Safari 3.1 loads fast, and pages load fast, although not as fast as Camino and Sunrise. Pages are rendered fine, but the lack of support for WYSIWYG editing in eBay, and the random page drops makes it an unreliable browser. Hopefully Apple will resolve these niggles and put Safari where it should be. Safari 1.3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later; 3.0 requires 10.4.9 or later. Conclusion. I have thrown a bunch of browsers at you, with most of them similar in specs but missing a few vital points. The best all rounder is Camino, as it is immensely fast, but for maximum compatibility and a whole bunch of plugins, Firefox is still good, although a little slow if you have an older G3. High-end 600 MHz with lots of RAM should cope with it fine. My wife had a G3 iBook 800 MHz with 640 MB of RAM, and Firefox 3 breezed on it, as fast as my Intel iMac running Leopard. Don’t dismiss Sunrise, as it looks very promising, and I will be using a whole lot more. For very old G3s, look at Camino and Sunrise,; for faster G3s and low-end G4s, look at Camino and Firefox. G3’s and low-end G4’s still have a long life left in them, but software developers and advances in web languages are forcing slower machines out of the picture. Fortunately there are still some developers writing with older machines in mind, and for this we are thankful. Follow Simon Royal on Twitter or send him an Email. Like what you have read? Send Simon a donation via Tip Jar. keywords: #browser #9browsers #g3 #oldermac #macosx #techspectrum #simonroyal.