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eBay very slow under 104Fox

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Macbookprodude

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So, I have a Titanium G4 1Ghz with an msata 256GB SSD and tenfourfox seems to be working great with all websites, except for eBay - It’s very slow going through listings.. can someone advise how to fix this and please don’t say it’s the Titanium, as this has 1MB L3 like the MDD’s have 1 or 2MB L3.

Its a very nice PowerBook and seems faster in many things due to the L3 cache, something my 2005-2006 PB G4 DLSD lacks. Also, would a SuperDrive from a DLSD fit in the titanium ?

thanks
 
try it on other machines, eBay is chunky on old machines anyway so I think your problem is actually hardware. are you using anything to block ads?
 
Yes, I have 104fox ad blocker installed.. tried it also on my Pb 1.67 DLSD. Same thing - this machine has L3 which should help.
 
While useable, ebay is a pig of a webiste & slow on all of my powerPC machines save my dualcore 2ghz Powermac G5 which is still not fast. It would be dog slow on a Titanium. I agree a mobile UA would be ideal on such ancient hardware.
 
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You might want to try using Leopard Webkit instead. It's not as widely compatible as Tenfourfox, but on sites it does work with (including eBay), it is much faster.
 
I actually browse eBay pretty frequently on G4's. It's slow but not that slow. It runs about as good as this website does honestly. I usually do it on "faster" G4's though. Like 1.5GHz+ PowerBooks.
Like anything else we do for fun around here, you just gotta have patience. I ordered Pizza from PowerPC a couple times during the PPC challenge this year; and the Mac placed the order faster than dominoes got my Pizza here!😁
 
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G4's though. Like 1.5GHz+ PowerBooks - sorry to say this, but my PB GE 1.67 feels a lot slower than the Titanium G4 1GHZ due to the L3 cache, the 7447A is a step backwards with no L3. And ebay was slow slow slow with this, at least on my ti G4 its faster. Leopard Webkit is nice, but when I disable java script, I can't log into my ebay account.
 
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G4's though. Like 1.5GHz+ PowerBooks - sorry to say this, but my PB GE 1.67 feels a lot slower than the Titanium G4 1GHZ due to the L3 cache, the 7447A is a step backwards with no L3. And ebay was slow slow slow with this, at least on my ti G4 its faster. Leopard Webkit is nice, but when I disable java script, I can't log into my ebay account.
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Yeah we've had this conversation before. I own all those models and disagree. The TiBook is good but it's not that good.
 
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How much RAM do your computers have? I would suggest maxxing it out. RAM is thousands of times faster than disk, and it seems that it takes at least a gigabyte to do anything, like view a picture, on the modern web.
 
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Just dropped ebay into a fox box and it's much better - quite usable on a single 1.33ghz ibookg4 with 1.25gb ram. Did the same to Amazon and while a bit slower as its even more of a pig of a website, it loaded up and was entirely usable as well.

@wicknix, does Arcticfox or iceweasel have a foxbox style funtionality?
 
I did modify foxbox to work with arcticfoxppc (called arcticbox..heh), but for my own personal use. I didn't release it because I didn't feel that'd be morally right. However you can do the same. Only takes a few minutes to modify tenfourfoxbox to work with other Mozilla based browsers. Just replace all entries pointing to tenfourfox.app and replace with arcticfoxppc.app or iceweaselppc.app.

Cheers
 
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You can even get creative and change the icons. Here's my personal use "foxbox" app for Arctic Fox. I created 2. One for arcticfoxppc on leopard, and one for snow leopard.

Edit: A good name for a custom iceweasel-ppc foxbox would be "IceBox" ;)

ArcticBox.png
 
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