Sometime in 2012, Adobe Flash asked me to update it. I tried, but it didn't work because my browsers (firefox and chrome) didn't support the newest flash.
System requirements to run TenFourFox are a PowerPC G3, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.8, 100 MB of disk space, and 256MB of RAM. Performance is apparently really fast, although they do caution that video playback will be poor on PowerPC Macs that are slower than 1.2GHz. Alternatives to adobe acrobat for mac.
I tried to update my browsers, but neither firefox nor chrome supports mac os 10.5.8 anymore. Safari keeps telling me to update flash too. I know that using an older version of flash can be a security hazard, so I really want to update. My question: Are there any browsers (perhaps a firefox variant) I can use more safely now than the browsers that shipped with 10.5.8? For the impatient: You have two possibilities: • PowerPC-based Mac: and no Flash. • Intel-based Mac: (thanks to for this one!) with (beware, Flash 10.3 is an archived version and is ). Long version: • If you use an Intel processor you can use: Opera 12 OS X Leopard (10.5), or greater: 32-bit and 64-bit Intel systems supported Opera supports Flash Player plug-in.
• If you use a PowerPC processor you may want to try. TenFourFox seems to be actively developed (version 17.0.3 was released Feb 16 2013).
TenFourFox supports add-ons, but not plugins, that is, you can't use Flash at all. Please notice that Flash Player 11. You can still download for 10.5 Intel (beware, Flash 10.3 is an archived version and is ). As for other browsers: • Firefox processors (PowerBook, PowerMac): Firefox 3.6.28 is the last version of Firefox that works with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on a computer with a PowerPC processor. Is the latest version that supports Leopard on Intel-based Macs as Firefox 17 requires 10.6 or newer. • Apple no longer releases Safari updates for Mac OS X 10.5 (as stated ).
• Chrome, either: Google Chrome on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will stop receiving any updates following Chrome 21. I seem to remember that back in February (when I first answered the question) the article linked () listed a Flash Player for Mac OS X 10.5.x.
So I inferred that Adobe supported that Flash version too. However, since it wasn't stated explicitely, I chose the wording 'which seems to be supported by Adobe'. Free word for mac 2011. That's clearly no longer the case (extended support for Flash Player 10.3 expired on July 9th, as explained in the link your provided), thanks for pointing it out, I've edited my answer accordingly. – Sep 10 '13 at 7:25 •.
I recently saw an ad for a Chromebook and it got me thinking, Chrome OS is open source and Linux based. Chrome OS is all web based. This is perfect for PowerPC Mac's (Would be better if we could also get a working version of Flash Player on a Chrome OS PPC Port). So I was wondering if anyone has successfully ported it over to the PPC platform and if so, is there a download? Chrome has a moderately minimal UI that a higher end G4 and any dual G5 would be able to handle.
So if Chrome OS hasn't been ported over, calling all talented people, this would be an amazing thing to attempt for the community. Chrome OS or any web based OS like Chrome would be perfect. The only issue is we'd still need Flash. Flash is what makes most Google Chrome apps and runs the web version of Spotify. You could say just use a lightweight Linux Distro thats already available but most of them have ugly interfaces, or to intensive interfaces. Another issue with these Linux PPC ports is graphics drivers. I've tried three Linux ports on my PowerBook and my PowerMac.
They all booted on the PowerBook but where very unstable and had raging graphics issues. On my G5 two don't even boot, and Ubuntu 15 still doesn't support the GeForce FX 5200 which is in my system and are still in most G5s that are just used for casual computing. Click to expand.Although the installation and setup is long and tedious, Debian works well on Powerbook - and you can make a real bare bones install then add to it only the stuff you need. However, personally I didn't find it any faster than Tiger/Leopard and you sacrifice all the familiar OSX apps just to run a contemporary OS.