Tenfourfox

[eyoungren]

Yeah i hate this rapid release, it's completely screwing up the versions!!!
Firefoxes 4-28 all should be just 4 and firefix 29-present should be firefox 5

Look at the differences between 1, 2, 3, and 4. Now look at the differences bettween 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.

Who person came up with this idea?! ¬_¬

Mozilla came up with the release schedule. The same Mozilla that abandoned PowerPC with version 3.6. The same Mozilla that abandoned Tiger and Leopard for Intel years ago and the same Intel that is a hairsbreadth away from abandoning 10.6 and 10.7.

If not for the efforts of Cameron Kaiser we'd all still be running Firefox 3.6.

Maybe the release schedule is a bad thing, but it's not Kaiser and TenFourFox that are setting the pace it's Mozilla. Kaiser is just trying to keep up and give us all a stable, secure and modern browser.

But hey, I use old apps too, so if you aren't happy with the latest versions of TenFourFox, use what you wish. But at the same time we can't be upset that someone out there is trying to keep PowerPC in the modern era.

 

[roadbloc]

TFF works fine for me. It sometimes gets sluggish if I have a lot of tabs open, but with my usual use (2-4 tabs) it functions fine.

 

[76ShovelHead]

I've found Tenfourfox to be resource intensive on pretty much everything I've used it on. It will run the processor(or both processors) up to close to 100%. Scrolling is also a bit "choppy" even on my single 1.8 G5(although it is fine on my 2.0 Dual Core)

I still like it, but have mostly switched over to Webkit for this reason.

I average 60-70% usage when using TFF. I really love the idea, just wish it were implemented a little better. But I supposed what can you do? FireFox will even choke my brother-in-law's core i5 PC.

Now, it would've been pretty slick if someone decided to develop Chrome for PPC. Though I suppose Chrome was never released on this architecture (Then again, wasn't Chromium available to PowerPC Linux?)

TenFourFox should run good on that Mac, but it uses a lot more RAM than Camino or even Safari will. Make sure you've got the full 1.5GB of RAM in there. If you're trying to run on a 1GB of less, it is gonna be a poor experience.

It's maxed out. 1.5 GB, 1.42 Ghz, The only upgrade left is an SSD... But I recently purchased a Black Macbook C2D for about the same price!

TFF is never going to be a super-fast, well-polished browser, and really it isn't supposed to be either. I always saw it as a means to give PowerPC Macs the features and security of modern browsers, with speed as an afterthought. It's a shame we can't have our cake and eat it to, but with the massive amount of workarounds and back-ported code necessary to make the browser secure and compatible with todays web standards, a trade-off had to be made somewhere.

For what it's worth, I really can't complain about the browsers' performance on my eMac; it chokes a bit with multiple windows each with multiple tabs, but that's to be expected. My PowerBook G4 has a bit more trouble with it, but it's still usable with four or five tabs going, if not a bit laggy.

If I recall correctly TFF performed pretty well on my old eMac 1.25 GHz 2GB. I wonder how different the desktop chips are from the laptop G4 chips. My iBook is always plugged in and the power setting is set to max performance, and at 1.42 GHz, well I'm not impressed. This is an older machine though, it's not a 1.4 GHz i7 MBA lol.

I looked around in the settings to find where to disable Javascript, but I did not see anything. How did you do so? And does it speed things up quite a bit?

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Ugh, what is their need to update web standards/browsers every 5 minutes and each time make them slower and more bloated? What a key to computer obsoleteness... Things like this cause people to want faster/newer computers more often. I wish the web standards would be left the h3ll alone, with the exception of ridding the web of Flash. On a side note, I bet once Flash is finally gone, Adobe will come out with a new product with a different name, which then will become adopted yet again by everyone and their brother.

I often wonder If we didn't notice how slow these machines were back in their day, being quite powerful they were. With everything happening so instantly, patience has really taken a back seat or better yet flew out the window.

Yeah i hate this rapid release, it's completely screwing up the versions!!!
Firefoxes 4-28 all should be just 4 and firefix 29-present should be firefox 5

Look at the differences between 1, 2, 3, and 4. Now look at the differences bettween 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.

Who person came up with this idea?! ¬_¬

I couldn't agree more, awful idea... I'm not liking these yearly OS release cycles either. It puts pressure on the developers and half-baked software is result. Mavericks is a fine OS, but you can clearly tell it's not as polished as Leopard/Snow Leopard was. Plus, I liked the radical new features of Major releases (to mention a few Time Machine and Spaces). I also miss the intro videos, they added to the allure.

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TFF works fine for me. It sometimes gets sluggish if I have a lot of tabs open, but with my usual use (2-4 tabs) it functions fine.

What are your specs? Also, you're on Tiger... My iBook is running Leopard. For usability's sake perhaps I should downgrade.

 

[roadbloc]

What are your specs? Also, you're on Tiger... My iBook is running Leopard. For usability's sake perhaps I should downgrade.

iMac G4 800MHz. 1GB RAM. OS X 10.4.11.
I would personally run Tiger on all PPC models since it is undoubtedly more lightweight and faster. However, it does comes with disadvantages. Not as many apps will work and you don't get all that eye candy.

I'm a self admitted Tiger fanboy, so my opinion has plenty of bias. Before considering downgrading, maybe another forum user has some tips on how Leopard can be sped up so TFF can run smoother.

 

[Altemose]

iMac G4 800MHz. 1GB RAM. OS X 10.4.11.

I would personally run Tiger on all PPC models since it is undoubtedly more lightweight and faster. However, it does comes with disadvantages. Not as many apps will work and you don't get all that eye candy.



I'm a self admitted Tiger fanboy, so my opinion has plenty of bias. Before considering downgrading, maybe another forum user has some tips on how Leopard can be sped up so TFF can run smoother.

Intell, eyoungren, and I wrote one a few months back on this forum. Perhaps it will help.