It’s a perfectly good browser, but why not use the more efficient alternative? Aurorafox Takes Top HonorsĪnd so we crown Aurorafox as the best browser to use with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. TenFourFox Takes Second PlaceĪlthough the functionality is virtually identical between TenFourFox and Aurorafox, Aurorafox is optimized for OS X 10.5 Leopard and much less demanding of your old PPC Mac’s limited resources. Browsing on a 12″ PowerBook G4 with its 1024 x 768 pixel display is much better in full page mode. On a big display, it’s not such an issue, but the smaller your screen, the more you’ll relish it. That may not sound like much, since no software written in the Leopard era supports full page mode, but TenFourFox and Aurorafox are modern browsers that do support full page mode. Safari for Leopard is very outdated in terms of features, speed, and security, while Firefox (and hence TenFourFox and Aurorafox) remain under development.įurther, Safari doesn’t support full page mode. I have essentially the same capabilities as mentioned with Safari using LastPass, Adblock Plus, Flashbock, and NoScript. Mozilla ExtensionsĪs offshoots of Firefox, TenFourFox and Aurorafox can use the same extensions. This gives Aurorafox some advantages, particularly in displaying text, as it can take advantage of improved graphics routines within Leopard.Īurorafox is also available with an alpha build of Firefox 20, and TenFourFox currently has a development version of Firefox 22, but for stability, stick with the polished release version 17. The current version of TenFourFox is 17.0.7.Īurorafox is based on the same code as TenFourFox 17.0.2, so it’s a bit older and a bit less secure, and it’s compiled specifically for OS X 10.5 Leopard, where TenFourFox will also run on OS X 10.4 Tiger. TenFourFox is an adaptation of Firefox 17 for PowerPC Macs, with two different G4 versions (if you’re running Leopard on a G4, you’ll probably end up using the 7450/G4e version) and a G5 version, so any PPC Mac running Leopard can run it. These two browsers are brothers under the hood. If you click on the placeholder, you can access the Flash content, assuming it’s compatible with the version of Flash on your Leopard PPC Mac (The last supported version is Flash 10.1, although there is a workaround that sometimes does the job.)Īnother one you might want to consider is JavaScript Blocker (under the Security heading), which prevents JavaScript from executing unless you tell it to. There are also iOS and Android versions, although they are not free.īy downloading the AdBlock extension, you can get rid of a lot of the ads that clutter up pages and slow load time, although we should remind you that these ads are a big part of what keeps most of the Web free.Īnother useful Safari extension is ClickToFlash, which prevents Flash content from loading, replacing it with a placeholder. Safari Extensionsīest of all, Safari on Leopard supports LastPass, a great free password manager for modern Macs and PC and Linux systems that also supports OS X 10.4 (but only with TenFourFox) and 10.5 (with both Safari/WebKit and TenFourFox/Aurorafox). Safari supports lots of other extensions, although for some reason Apple doesn’t let you search them. And if you want a version of Safari that’s a bit more up-to-date, there’s the experimental Leopard WebKit project, which lets you run Safari with an updated version of WebKit (currently r134862, where it’s been for a long, long time). Safari is a perfectly competent browser, and Leopard supports Safari 5.0.6, which is a step forward from version 4.1.3 on Tiger. Today I follow that up by looking at two contenders for the best browser on OS X 10.5 Leopard. 2013 – A while back, I explained why TenFourFox is without a doubt the best browser option for anyone running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on a PowerPC Mac.
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