![]() In TenFourFox 6, we even accelerated HTML itself. In TenFourFox 5, we brought you scaling and colour conversion powered by AltiVec. In TenFourFox 4, we brought you pixel compositing and WebM video accelerated by AltiVec. But no one brought those new algorithms back to the PowerPC browser world … until now. Remember how AltiVec was going to change the world? Well, it did, because everyone else did it too and now vector and SIMD extensions are in every new Intel CPU and every new browser. We’ve sent our work back to Mozilla so others can benefit, but with TenFourFox, you can wring the best online performance from your Power Mac now!ĪltiVec Acceleration, From Server To Screen Thanks to its exclusive native tracing just-in-time compiler, TenFourFox powers through today’s JavaScript-intensive web applications faster than any other PowerPC browser on both Tiger and Leopard. No, that’s not chart trickery: TenFourFox’s JavaScript interpreter really is faster than Safari 5 and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6, as proven on both the SunSpider and Dromaeo industry-standard browser JavaScript benchmarks. You’ll find TenFourFox significantly faster overall than Firefox 3.6, yet it supports so many more new and emerging Web features that your dear old Power Mac will still be able to do what you need online for years to come Nevertheless, it’s still almost all the same code as today’s Firefox and has nearly all the same features, including dramatically faster JavaScript, WebM video, compatibility with most Firefox add-ons, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 support. It uses code tuned for 10.4 (and compatible with 10.5), adds new PowerPC-specific improvements and restores the glue necessary to get most of modern Firefox’s advanced features working on our older computers, offered in separately hand-tuned builds for G3, G4/7400, G4/7450 and G5 processors to get the most from your specific computer. Why is this TenFourFox and not Firefox? Because even though it uses the Firefox code base, it’s not Firefox. Tuned For Your Operating System And Processor So if you want something done, you do it yourself, and we did. They may not be as fast, but there’s no technical reason they can’t do everything that a MacBook can. Why shouldn’t an iBook be able to look at embarrassing pictures on Facebook, or Twitter about our lunch break? These are our computers, dang it. “But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years of using Macs, it’s that they outlast anything else out there. It’s a great hack, but Classic beats it cold.) (And don’t get us started on Sheepshaver. Heck, Lion won’t even run any PowerPC software anymore. That’s why your MacBook has the same hoary old architecture in ye old generic Wintel box, and if you want to use your perfectly good OS 9 software, you’re using Tiger or bust. “And, of course, Apple’s been giving us Power Mac users the proverbial middle digit since 2006. “A quad 2.5GHz G5 isn’t worth using to surf the web? Really? And you guys still support Windows XP? But we didn’t,” say the TenFourFox development team, noting that like many PowerPC Mac holdouts, they were horrified when Mozilla delivered the one-two punch of dropping both support for Tiger and our beloved Power Macs from Firefox. It was looking like disappearing up-to-date Web browser compatibility with OS X 10.4 Tiger would turn out to be the tipping point into obsolescent unusability for the Pismos, and it still ultimately might, but thanks to TenFourFox, not yet. Being as the old laptops are now in their 12th year of continuous service, another year or two is nothing to sneeze at. (their first life-extension was installing G4 processor upgrades). The TenFourFox Power PC Port of ’s Firefox browser, now available in version 7, has literally given my two old 2000 Pismo PowerBooks their second new lease on life, extending their production usefulness by at least anohter year or two I reckon. I am using Flash 10.1.102.64 in TenFourFox and it works just fine.TenFourFox 7 Power PC Port Of Firefox 7 Browser Released Now close TenFourFox, open it again, and Flash will now work, as it now uses the plug-ins that Safari has stored. ![]() Ignore that and click on 'I'll be careful, I promise' and you get the config file that you can edit - with great care. This gives you a warning that it might harm the application. Open TenFourFox and type in the address bar: about:config (no spaces) and click return. Unless you are prone to headaches (in which case don't) you can read about that here: Now for the interesting bit: TenFourFox, like Firefox, does not support most plug-ins. The latest versions of Firefox do not work on a PPC Mac (Intel only) but there is a version that does: TenFourFox: Internet Explorer has not been supported for the Mac for a decade. From your question I am assuming that you have a PPC iMac.
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