This one piqued my interest as iCab has features for web developers, including Web Inspector, HTML validity checker, automatic page refresh, and Console among others. iCab: iCab is a bit more feature-rich and derived from Crystal Atari Browser as opposed to the Mozilla-based browsers above.However, as it matched the OS and processor my neighbor was running, it made the list. Browsing looks and feels much like TenFourFox, but has a more limited OS compatibility. AuroraFox: AuroraFox is another Mozilla Firefox-based browser for Power Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.When downloading, make sure you get the right version optimized for the operating system and processor your computer is using. It adds PowerPC-specific improvements and restores the glue necessary to get most of modern Firefox’s advanced features working on older computers (going back to PowerMac G3 even). TenFourFox: This browser uses the code from FireFox and is tuned for 10.4 (and compatible with 10.5).He’s back to one machine and is extremely happy that his web browsing “feels like new again.” So, when I got home I installed the following PowerMac G4 browser options on his machine and after trying them all, he said that TenFourFox “felt” the fastest of the three with Facebook, but that all of them solved the problems he had been having. After doing a little research on each, I settled on three to try. But a few suggestions for some alternative browsers were made. as a media server, file server, print server, etc.), none of the co-workers I asked were actively using their machines for web browsing. Interestingly enough, while several of us had the machines in question for tinkering, nostalgia, or stand-alone tasks (ie. I asked a few others around the office here if anyone was still actively using a PowerPC machine. I let him know I’d look into it and get back to him. None of the browsers he used could be updated to current because his computer was incompatible. He told me that browsing has pretty much slowed down to a snail’s pace and he kept getting the getting the spinning beachball of death when visiting some sites – Facebook in particular.

OK, time to be neighborly and delve a bit into the details of what exactly the browsing problems were. In the meantime he’s been using his daughter’s old PC laptop to get by, but he really misses having one machine for everything – web browsing on one and working on the other is getting a bit tedious. He informed me that was the down the road plan, but it just isn’t in the budget quite yet. When my neighbor asked me what he could do to fix his problems with browsing the internet on his G4 Mirrored Drive Door, my immediate response was to upgrade that machine to a Mac mini.

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