![]() Stuff you take for granted on a modern, multi-core computer with an SSD and lots of RAM is totally different on a system this old. It’s just not a very pleasant experience compared to a modern Mac. ![]() It’s usable, and I could actually do pretty much everything I needed to do to get my job done on it. Mac OS 9 is pretty spartan by modern standards, but it's quick to respond to user input, at least as long as it's not hung up on something. ![]() One thing I’ll say about both OS X 10.4 and 10.5 on this hardware is that it’s laggy no matter what you’re doing. In any case, TenFourFox does a respectable job of rendering pages properly, and I’m sure it runs much better on newer 1GHz-and-up aluminum PowerBooks and iMacs than it does on this old titanium G4. I replaced it with the official Firefox icon to make myself feel better. It can’t use plugins, though the plugins still available for PowerPC Mac OS X are long out of date anyway. The official development blog, while very informative, makes it sound like Firefox is always a feature or two away from being completely un-port-able. The browser is RAM-hungry to a fault (it used around 206MB to load the Ars homepage, compared to 96MB for Safari). Scrolling on the 800MHz PowerBook was constantly choppy and unresponsive, where Safari is at least capable of something approximating smoothness. Update: I did go and install the QuickTimeEnabler which was not previously installed and now shows up in TFF’s addon manager.As great as it is that there are still brave souls keeping the lights on for PowerPC users, TenFourFox is not my favorite browser. I’ll be looking into this more when I get some time! I do recall installing the MacTubes enabler. However there may be one last thing, I just installed Quicktime 7.7 and I can’t recall if I installed the Quicktime enabler for TenFourFox. Maybe because I have webkit open something between the two is letting this happen? Nope. Maybe something to do with MacTubes? Even trashing MacTubes the videos still seem to play fine inside of TFF. Surprising, again I have no Extensions, the stock Theme, and no plugins. So what’s next to try out? Take a look at the Addon’s for TFF. Ok, time to see if any flash thing would work with TFF, so I go to OOKLA’s and sure enough I get the message I need flash. Now watching the same video I can actually pause the video and there is no more load circle. Go to the address bar and go to and then request the HTML5 player. To see what the deal was, I went to youtube and pulled up a Power Mac G5 intro video, which worked but the load circle remanded to spin during the video, and pause/play didn’t work. Not thinking anything of it, I click play and the video loads and then I look up top and see that I’m in TFF. ![]() Scrolling through facebook (which only works right for me in TenFourFox, WebKit refueses to load everything besides the search bar) and in this Abandoned Car group someone shares a 1967 Shelby found in Death Valley, so I open the link up and see a little article about it and a youtube video with pictures. So I had just got up and was checking the regular facebook/email/news thing with a cup of coffee on my desk. This struck me as odd because I thought you couldn’t do anything thing flash related in TenFourFox and required some other browser such as WebKit for those functionalities. ![]()
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