Snow Leopards, what Browser do you use?

[mectojic]

I mostly use Arctic Fox, though on occasion it does crash on heavy modern sites (including Macrumors!), and I'm wondering what other people like to use in Snow Leopard. More than one option possible.

 

[theMarble]

I use Arctic Fox for most tasks, however since version 40.0 broke more than it added, I've started using Firefox Legacy again. So far so good.

I'd be shocked if anyone still uses a decade old version version of Safari though.

 

[B S Magnet]

Interweb has worked out amazingly for me. It’s not heavy, especially after weaving in many of the pref settings from @eyoungren ’s optimizations for TFF on the PPC side (those prefs, with tweaks here and there, have found their way across every Mozilla-based browser I have across every Mac I use). I also use the Esperance DV prefPane in tandem for auto-generating at start-up a RAM-disk in SL, and I have Interweb use it for caching and other disk-heavy tasks.

Interweb, more so than Arctic Fox, behaves closest to how I use Mozilla-supported Firefox browsers on later iterations of macOS.

 

[snowy moon]

TFF intel has best all-round compatibilty with sites I use, but since a couple of days Bandcamp stopped showing it's player 🙁 (work-around for the time being is using bandcamp-embeds). And SpiderWeb is best for video. I do keep ArcticFox and InterWeb installed, but InterWeb does not work well for SL versions below 10.6.8.

 

[DiamondBlock98]

InterWeb

 

[mectojic]

Interweb has worked out amazingly for me. It’s not heavy, especially after weaving in many of the pref settings from @eyoungren ’s optimizations for TFF on the PPC side (those prefs, with tweaks here and there, have found their way across every Mozilla-based browser I have across every Mac I use). I also use the Esperance DV prefPane in tandem for auto-generating at start-up a RAM-disk in SL, and I have Interweb use it for caching and other disk-heavy tasks.

Interweb, more so than Arctic Fox, behaves closest to how I use Mozilla-supported Firefox browsers on later iterations of macOS.

I've been trying InterWeb for the past few days now, and wow I am impressed. It definitely runs very, very well.

Could you give me some advice on how to install prefs and tweaks? Any links? I saw the install package had some optimisations, I installed palefill and uBlock for instance.

 

[B S Magnet]

I've been trying InterWeb for the past few days now, and wow I am impressed. It definitely runs very, very well.

Could you give me some advice on how to install prefs and tweaks? Any links? I saw the install package had some optimisations, I installed palefill and uBlock for instance.

The baseline of “prefs” I use (and refer to) are those from the prefs.js put together by @eyoungren for TFF on the PPC side.

I’ve made my own minor adjustments on my own along the way — though I haven’t really kept very good track of them.

Perhaps the biggest one I can recall having made a significant difference is for the browser to rely on a RAM disk cache location instead of the system disk — namely, browser.cache.disk.parent_directory is set to /Volumes/.IWRD (I set the name IWRD in the Esperance DV prefPane (h/t to @eyoungren once again), which works in SL, while the dot in front is a setting in Esperance DV to hide the RAM disk from the desktop, to allow for seamless functionality).

It’s entirely your call, but I’m one who uses uBlock origin together with uMatrix (the last legacy version) to fine-tune what a web site is trying to load. It’s not necessarily something which will speed up all web sites, but if there’s one site which you know to be resource-heavy and tracking-heavy, uMatrix granular control enables you to subtract specific components from loading which might not be swept up by uBlock origin.

 

[eyoungren]

I've been trying InterWeb for the past few days now, and wow I am impressed. It definitely runs very, very well.

Could you give me some advice on how to install prefs and tweaks? Any links? I saw the install package had some optimisations, I installed palefill and uBlock for instance.

What @B S Magnet refers to is here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/my-tenfourfox-about-config-tweaks-and-my-addons.1838393/

prefs.js goes here: Macintosh HD/Users/~username/Library/Application Support/[Your Browser]/[Profile Name]

Use the prefs.js that I indicate for my Intel Macs if you use mine. The one for PowerPC causes some weird graphical glitching on Intels.