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TLS 1.3 Browser for PowerPC G5?

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Yemmy

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Hi, I know this is a long shot, but I have a Powermac PowerPC G5 With osx 10.5.8.
A website I regularly visit has just changed their certificate to a TLS 1.3 and I can't access the site anymore. Is there a browser which I can use on such an old mac?

Ive tried chrome 20, chrome 21, chrome 49, chrome32bit, tenfourG5, Tenfour7450 which all give me an error when I try to install 'application not supported on this architecture'
Ive managed to get Firefox 3.6.28 installed, but this only supports up to TLS 1.0.
 
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I want to view the website in all its glory. This shows it as text. Thanks for the info though - its handy to have.
 
Yemmy said:
I want to view the website in all its glory. This shows it as text. Thanks for the info though - its handy to have.
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You may need to change your User Agent settings to something which tells the web server you’re running something newer than you actually are. As of 2020, the latest version of TenFourFox (and by extension, the latest version of InterwebPPC, which is derived from TFF) does include TLSv1.3 support. If you grab the Classic Add-ons Archives add-on, there is a User Agent spoofer called User Agent Switcher. While it has preset user agents, you can also manually add more recent ones to trick the web server you’re trying to reach to send the page data.

Bear in mind, however, that while you may be able to do this, if the site you’re trying to reach/use incorporates Javascript calls which only came into use in the past few years, then the page(s) will probably not render or have the ajax (on-the-fly response, like clicking a button and having a pop-up appear without re-loading the whole page) functionality you’d expect on a more modern browser.
 
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Yemmy said:
Hi, I know this is a long shot, but I have a Powermac PowerPC G5 With osx 10.5.8.
A website I regularly visit has just changed their certificate to a TLS 1.3 and I can't access the site anymore. Is there a browser which I can use on such an old mac?

Ive tried chrome 20, chrome 21, chrome 49, chrome32bit, tenfourG5, Tenfour7450 which all give me an error when I try to install 'application not supported on this architecture'
Ive managed to get Firefox 3.6.28 installed, but this only supports up to TLS 1.0.
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What is the website. Let me try to access it using interweb on my titanium g4. If it works, then something on your end because even TFF works great with almost all websites, at least until 2035 when TLS 1.4 comes out but by then nothing will remain of any of us.
 
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You may need to change your User Agent settings to something which tells the web server you’re running something newer than you actually are. As of 2020, the latest version of TenFourFox (and by extension, the latest version of InterwebPPC, which is derived from TFF) does include TLSv1.3 support. If you grab the Classic Add-ons Archives add-on, there is a User Agent spoofer called User Agent Switcher. While it has preset user agents, you can also manually add more recent ones to trick the web server you’re trying to reach to send the page data.

Bear in mind, however, that while you may be able to do this, if the site you’re trying to reach/use incorporates Javascript calls which only came into use in the past few years, then the page(s) will probably not render or have the ajax (on-the-fly response, like clicking a button and having a pop-up appear without re-loading the whole page) functionality you’d expect on a more modern browser.
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He can download FoxPEP also to speed up everything. This works great on my Titanium G4 and quite fast.
 
Yemmy said:
Hi, I know this is a long shot, but I have a Powermac PowerPC G5 With osx 10.5.8.
A website I regularly visit has just changed their certificate to a TLS 1.3 and I can't access the site anymore. Is there a browser which I can use on such an old mac?

Ive tried chrome 20, chrome 21, chrome 49, chrome32bit, tenfourG5, Tenfour7450 which all give me an error when I try to install 'application not supported on this architecture'
Ive managed to get Firefox 3.6.28 installed, but this only supports up to TLS 1.0.
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Do you really have a PPC mac ? chrome 20, chrome 21, chrome 49, chrome32bit - DON'T WORK ON PPC macs, sadly.
 
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