Why is browsing on PPC less than stellar in 2016?

[eyoungren]

I'm not sure why people that don't care much about PowerPC Macs come down in this section of MR. I've seen it happen multiple times, and it's pretty pointless. That's like going into the Intel Mac sections and preaching about PowerPC Macs. Doesn't make sense, does it?

Sometimes our posts end up in the Forum Spy section, which is a section you can click on that shows ALL new posts regardless of the forum they are posted in.

We get transients periodically that way.

There was new activity last night and it's possible that's how this thread came up for throAU.

In any case, nothing he said was hostile to PowerPC. He was simply responding to the WHY of the question.

Can anyone here argue that without all our hard found workarounds a PowerPC Mac handles the internet of 2016 better than a year or two old Intel Mac running the latest browsers?

 

[Gamer9430]

I think I'm going to start a new thread "Why is browsing on 68k less than stellar in 2016?"... For some reason my 512ke is just too slow browsing on the modern internet. Anyone have any ideas

 

[Nermal]

It's a pity that "normal" companies don't have a Web audit. I work for an arm of the government and every year our sites are audited. A dependency on JavaScript will give us a big "fail"! It's OK to use JavaScript to enhance a site, but there are so many sites now that will completely break without it.

Case in point: My bank. After a recent redesign, the site now loads to a completely blank page; *everything* is done with JavaScript and the HTML body consists of a single div with no content. That, in my opinion, is fundamentally broken.

 

[WalkerTexasRanger]

Case in point: My bank. After a recent redesign, the site now loads to a completely blank page; *everything* is done with JavaScript and the HTML body consists of a single div with no content. That, in my opinion, is fundamentally broken.

Javascript and CSS are the FUTURE! Use them or else!

 

[MacCubed]

I'm not sure why people that don't care much about PowerPC Macs come down in this section of MR. I've seen it happen multiple times, and it's pretty pointless. That's like going into the Intel Mac sections and preaching about PowerPC Macs. Doesn't make sense, does it?

It's also the same in the Intel Mac sections where someone asks a question about an older model Mac, and they literally shoot them down, telling them to buy a new Mac.

 

[MysticCow]

It's also the same in the Intel Mac sections where someone asks a question about an older model Mac, and they literally shoot them down, telling them to buy a new Mac.

MacCubed, you should probably just buy a new Mac. Preferably, a new Mac Pro that is fully maxed out.

Now seriously, I have a mini from 2011 that runs everything just fine. As time marches on, I tweak and make sure things are going to still run strongly.

On the PowerPC side, though, TenFourFoxBox is a godsend when it comes to web browsing. However, I'd still advise MacCubed to buy a maxed out current Mac Pro.

 

[Orizence]

MacCubed, you should probably just buy a new Mac. Preferably, a new Mac Pro that is fully maxed out.

Now seriously, I have a mini from 2011 that runs everything just fine. As time marches on, I tweak and make sure things are going to still run strongly.

On the PowerPC side, though, TenFourFoxBox is a godsend when it comes to web browsing. However, I'd still advise MacCubed to buy a maxed out current Mac Pro.

So he can send you his computers? (im just taking a wild guess.)
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I used something similar called a Web Rendering Proxy on Mac OS 9 and it worked pretty well. It's a script running on another computer used as a proxy (Mac or Linux) which converts the web pages into clickable GIF images. It won't work for advanced JavaScript stuff but at least it lets you load the pages correctly even in the oldest browsers.

Now this is something I would want to try out

 

[Hack5190]

Now this is something I would want to try out

Try this then, http://pici.picidae.net/ - it's the source of that source code (if that makes sense).

 

[MysticCow]

So he can send you his computers? (im just taking a wild guess.)

I'm being silly when I say those things. Note the "fake mod notes" usually attached to them.

 

[Orizence]

I'm being silly when I say those things. Note the "fake mod notes" usually attached to them.

Trust me you did not need to clarify that (I meant to make a comment on the "naughty stool" but i guess i was already too tired to think by then)

 

[gavinstubbs09]

I'll be quite honest; the amount of content on websites eat away at performance and ever so sadly my G5 Quad struggles with some sites and the fans rev up to a unpleasant speed which makes me never want to use the thing. I had done everything possible to this G5 Quad (SSD/16GB Ram/rebuilt LCS) and it still has issues with being usable in this day and age. Step up to my 2006 MP and running ElCap it has no issues. It's all in the processor unfortunately

 

[Orizence]

I'll be quite honest; the amount of content on websites eat away at performance and ever so sadly my G5 Quad struggles with some sites and the fans rev up to a unpleasant speed which makes me never want to use the thing. I had done everything possible to this G5 Quad (SSD/16GB Ram/rebuilt LCS) and it still has issues with being usable in this day and age. Step up to my 2006 MP and running ElCap it has no issues. It's all in the processor unfortunately

On my DC G5 I have never heard the fans ramp up (except for my x1900... Dang that thing is loud), but I can say that on some websites my G5 does struggle quite a bit, and its a real shame because even a core duo that I have used didnt even struggle that much.

P.S. Do your fans ramp up when encoding in Handbreak or Toast with h.264 (mine dont even at all.)?

 

[stewart1981]

On my DC G5 I have never heard the fans ramp up (except for my x1900... Dang that thing is loud), but I can say that on some websites my G5 does struggle quite a bit, and its a real shame because even a core duo that I have used didnt even struggle that much.

P.S. Do your fans ramp up when encoding in Handbreak or Toast with h.264 (mine dont even at all.)?

I'm with you on this, my single 1.6ghz G5 is steady but ok the web but the fans very rarely fire up, my mac book 4,1 has the fans revving an awful lot both online and when I'm using Sibelius for playback despite it being more than capable, the 2 cores just kick out so much heat that I stopped using it for composing at all. The same online, even with Erik's TenFourFox tweaks in Firefox itself.

 

[Dronecatcher]

the fans rev up to a unpleasant speed which makes me never want to use the thing

Although it doesn't seem to make sense, I've found both Quads and Duals come in varying shades of noisey. My first Quad made quite a racket but my current one I hardly notice even when it's churning away.
Regarding heavy websites, I find that they also give trouble to Intels in the same performance bracket as Quads.

 

[MysticCow]

Trust me you did not need to clarify that (I meant to make a comment on the "naughty stool" but i guess i was already too tired to think by then)

*grabs his battleaxe* (I really do own one)

I AM NOT GOING BACK TO THE NAUGHTY STOOL!!!

 

[Orizence]

*grabs his battleaxe* (I really do own one)

I AM NOT GOING BACK TO THE NAUGHTY STOOL!!!

Dont let them get you again, nobody wants the naughty stool.