Browser for Intel Tiger

[timidpimpin]

I thought of a possible solution for you...

Use VNC to use both Intel Tiger for work apps, and a newer OS on another Mac and use VNC or Screen Sharing to run a more modern browser. Or do the opposite... and use the newer OS as your main, and remote into Intel Tiger for work apps. This keeps everything on one screen, and will seem like one system in some ways.

The browser support for Intel Tiger is just too limited to have success or any kind of good experience browsing.

 

[sawpits]

I have the Tiger machines for work, I can boot into Snow Leopard already. It's just that I don't want to leave Tiger to browse the web.

See:

@OlgaTPark's Intel TenFourFox fork is a bit unusual in that it is based on 45.9 (yes, back before the FPR releases began), so it is missing later updates in the FPR series. On the other hand, it does support Tiger (mainline Intel TenFourFox requires at least 10.5), it additionally supports several features not supported by TenFourFox, i.e., by enabling Mozilla features in some of its operating system-specific flavours that are disabled in TenFourFox for reasons of Tiger compatibility, and also includes support for H.264 video with ffmpeg.

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2019/03/another-choice-for-intel-tenfourfox.html

 

[amagichnich]

Please have a look over here

Edit: Too late, I didn't reload for quite some time ^^

 

[MagicBoy]

I'm trying on Intel...

I'll give it another go later.

Tried again with the MacPorts one and it just fails with a number of errors relating to updated pre-reqs that can't update by the looks of it.

However, checking the TFF blog someone's compiled 45.9 for 10.4 Intel. Installed that and it's working nicely.

 

[ZStech]

I have a few machines running Intel Tiger, and I can't find any browsers for them... TenFourFox refuses to install on Intel

Wow, Tiger still alive?

 

[MagicBoy]

Wow, Tiger still alive?

Helpful post. Would read again. 10/10.

 

[alectrona6400]

why would you want to use intel tiger?
couldn't you just slap a tiger theme onto snow leopard or something?

 

[Dronecatcher]

why would you want to use intel tiger?
couldn't you just slap a tiger theme onto snow leopard or something?

I have Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro - apart from a web browser all the apps I use would work in Tiger - a cast iron browser would facilitate a move back and doubtless some performance gains.

 

[MagicBoy]

why would you want to use intel tiger?
couldn't you just slap a tiger theme onto snow leopard or something?

To run Tiger software. It's nothing to do with the look, plus I don't theme anything. i'm more interested in the engineering under the interface.

 

[eyoungren]

Has anyone seen this?: http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2019/03/another-choice-for-intel-tenfourfox.html

Available here for Intel 10.4(32-bit)/10.5 (32-bit)/10.6, 10.7, 10.8 (32 and 64-bit): https://github.com/OlgaTPark/tenfourfox/releases/

 

[MagicBoy]

Yep, I'm running it. See Post #29...

 

[eyoungren]

Yep, I'm running it. See Post #29...

Gotcha. Missed that earlier.

 

[MagicBoy]

No worries. Seems to work well from what I've tried so far. Not managed to get the H.264 plugin trick to work though.