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Safari and Firefox out of date but what do I upgrade to ??

I have a G4 powerbook with OSX 10.5.6 ( think that is Leopard )


I am on the verge of buying an ipad at xmas but want to keep this running and useable as long as possible but I seem to almost be at a brick wall as I want to upgrade safari, firefox, itunes etc but whatever I do I always seem to be running something that needs updating first.


I know my hard disk is getting full and I need to get some space so I am on with that part of it but can someone please advise me as to what to do software upgrades wise ( and as importantly in what sequence ) so I can run the latest versions that my old trusty machine is capable of. I realise that this is an old machine and is quite restricted but any improvements will help.


It's got that bad now that I have to log in to icloud on my partners two year old "non apple" laptop !!


Many thanks


Tony

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 4:55 AM

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Nov 13, 2012 7:23 AM in response to tonybassplayer

I still use Safari 3.0.4 and Firefox 3.6.28 I think between the two of them I have yet to encounter a web page that won't work. Mind you I don't do heavy duty video streaming and I haven't visited every web site out there.


Other have had success with Tenfourfox I use too many old Firefox extensions that TFF broke so I don't use it much. Since it is a port of Mozilla you can't run TFF and FF at the same time, but I can run Safari and FF at the same time.


The "latest versions" of most software that will run on a PPC Mac are several generations out of date anyway. Pretty much everybody only develops for Intel Macs now. I figure if my old versions work, why fret about having the newest all the time?

Nov 13, 2012 10:05 AM in response to tonybassplayer

The one suggestion I can make is update your computer to 10.5.8. It is possible you may find a still-old but intermediate update which will work under 10.5.8.


Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update - http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update - extra note about repairing permissions after update: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2106528?answerId=9968141022#9968141022

Safari and Firefox out of date but what do I upgrade to ??

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