A while ago we mentioned Browsers for PowerPC in few of our posts. We also mentioned a few updates from those Browsers, because we believe it is important to have applications updated as much as possible. Here is our list of recently updated Browsers, which are probably the Big Four for PowerPC, these days.
* TenFourFox – 17.0 – http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com or https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37761/tenfourfox
* AuroraFox – 19.0a2 – http://aurorafox.wordpress.com/ or https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43362/aurorafox
* SeaMonkey – 2.14_1 – https://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/
* Leopard WebKit – 129056 – http://code.google.com/p/leopard-webkit/ or http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43456/leopard-webkit
Try this: runecats.com/roccat.html
It works on PPC.
Thanks for sharing that eastone. I just downloaded Roccat and it’s a very interesting browser and looks really nice and clean. It was fast loading some of the pages I visit and does have a better html5 I’ve been a Camino user for years and am wondering if they are still moving toward a Webkit version. They still update their beta with nightly releases about every 2-3 weeks and I’m hoping they stick around…
Quick question for the group here
Why is that I can view video and YouTube on my safari browser but not with tenfourfox?
TenFourFox has disabled plugins by default since they are no longer supported. You can read more about why here: http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
If you really want it you can get around it by typing about:config in the browser and then go to ‘tenfourfox.plugins.enabled’ and set it to ‘true’. But I highly recommend using the Quicktime Enabler they mention in the link above. I’ve got it installed and videos on YouTube play at much higher resolution without any lag. You can read about and install it from here: http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/QuickTimeEnabler
Thanks Red!
I knew there was something I was missing, I will try that ASAP
Still a little confused because most video out there is flash and I can play flash just fine (low res) on g4 PowerBook with safari but it seems that even with tenfourfox add on I will not be able to view flash
The Quicktime Enabler add-on is for viewing YouTube videos. After you install and you go to a video, you just right click anywhere on the page and select to open in Quicktime. There are usually 3 options that show when you right click (480, 720, 1080.) Videos that have banner ads in them or notations don’t usually work and I don’t think it works with flash sites or flash based advertising on sites, just YouTube videos. If you are looking for a way to just play flash videos, I know there’s a hack out there for getting the Flash player version 11 on powerpc. The only thing though is that because flash 10 and 11 had so many bugs it’s really not secure. You can find out how to do this here: http://lowendmac.com/ed/royal/12sr/flash-11-and-powerpc.html
Please don’t forget about:
Omniweb, superb browser, fast. Has its own webkit engine, maintained by the Omnigroup.
iCab. Version 5.01 is webkit based as well, Leopard only, and a very nice browser. Developer has a consistent history of maintaing backwards compatibility with older Mac OS versions for longer than anyone. Version 4.9 still supports Panther.
With Greasekit installed both of the above can play youtube vidoes in the browser (360p on anything faster than a 800mhz G4) using quicktime via viewtube, which can be found at userscripts dot org. Must have Perian installed for flv playback, but I find the low def mp4 works best on my 1.07 ghz ibook G4
Don’t forget Stainless for OS X – http://www.stainlessapp.com/
Thanks for the info about Stainless. I’ve been using it for a couple of days now and I really like it.
This week a new version of Leopard Webkit was released: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43456/leopard-webkit
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Puzzled that no one here mentioned TenFourKit http://code.google.com/p/tenfourkit/
Same idea as Leopard WebKit, just for 10.4.x.
My only hope is that the developer will someday update the webkit engine on it as well.
A new version of webkit for Leopard was released: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43456/leopard-webkit
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iCab has just released a universal binary version that runs fine on my Powermac G5 (Leopard). iCab is the only browser that I know of that continues to maintain its PowerPC verison with the same features as the Intel version, releasing both at the same time. I use it as my default browser. http://www.icab.de/
Thank you for sharing Richard. iCab is one of my favourite browser as well. 🙂