Will Firefox 4 ever be compatible with Mac OS 10.4?
Will Firefox 4 ever be compatible with Mac OS 10.4, or do I need to find a new browser?
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Firefox 3.6.23 is still supported and secure at the moment. That is compatible with OS X 10.4
- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.6.23/system-requirements/
- see installing a previous version of firefox
- download from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
Post back with how you get on.
PPC/G4/G5 or Intel? I have been using the unofficial port of FF for 10.4 and 10.5 PPC called TenFourFox on my old G4 Quicksilver running 10.4 for a while now, they are up to date with FF7, but since 6.0 they have blocked the Flash plugin since Adobe dropped PPC support several releases ago and it has many "never going to be fixed" security holes, though WebM video plays ok. http://www.tenfourfox.com/ Dev blog: http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/
If that's not for you perhaps OmniWeb or iCab are your thing, or dual boot Linux as I've been doing, there are now working drivers for both ATI/AMD and Nvidia GPUs for old Macs, some even with 3D and video acceleration support working: ATI/AMD http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature Fully backed by AMD/ATI Nvidia http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix Reverse engineered only, no support from Nvidia
Been tossing around the idea of flashing a cheap these days FireGL X3 AGP into a Mac X800XL, still not cheap to this day, hear it can be done, just need the rom off the Mac card and an old AGP PC that has video BIOS flashing software... Flashing a 7800GS AGP to a Mac 7800GT would result in a faster card in OS X, but is still not as capable in Linux, while the X800XL would be equally capable in both.