G5 PPC & New Yahoo! Mail - Impossibly Slow

I also find Yahoo sites in general slow on our remaining PPC Macs with Safari, FireFox and Camino, but there is a browser option that, to me, offers much faster loading of yahoo pages:

http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

By default it does not support plugins including Flash, but there is a workabout to that issue here:

http://lowendmac.com/2011/tenfourfox-and-flash-the-future-of-powerpc-macs-on-the -web/

Just curious, any reason why you can't upgrade to OS X 10.5 Leopard?

You have plenty of RAM. My G4 1.25 Ghz CPU PowerMac only could take 2 GBs of RAM and OS X 10.5 Leopard ran pretty well.

I would think it may run better on a G5 with an extra 500 MBs of RAM?.

It may help because you can use more recent browsers like more recent versions of Firefox or Camino browsers.

You'll , also, have a more recent version of Safari although I do not know if that browser will be better with the new Yahoo or not.

But, at least, you'll have a choice of more recent browsers and newer OS with newer features.

Good Luck!

Have no clue about the capacitor issues I n the G5.

I do not know what effects this would have on a G5 once they failed.

If you are not having this issue, no need to worry about it.

I have heard about capacitors failing on the G5 - whilst I've never heard one pop or seen one go, what effects would it have on the machine's performance?

Although I've not personally dealt with the bad cap issues in the G5s, I get the impression from posts here that it's a rather black and white issue; if they go bad, the computer doesn't slow down---it stops. The older eMacs with bad caps would often start up but lock up hard as soon as any app was launched.

So if the computer is otherwise doing what is should but is slow, bad caps are a rather remote possibility.

As for 10.4 v. 10.5: I have a triple-bootable G4 PowerMac with 10.4, 10.5, and OS9 volumes. I don't see a noticeable improvement in web performance in 10.5 compared to 10.4. It's sluggish with both.

Michel PM wrote:

It may help because you can use more recent browsers like more recent versions of Firefox or Camino browsers.

Firefox 3.6.something is the highest that will run on a PowerPC Mac. Changing the OS will not allow a newer version of FireFox. And, alas, Camino is EOL:

http://caminobrowser.org/

Very sad--t'was agood little browser with a small footprint on resources.

Safari does benefit from an OS upgrade. 10.4.11 can only run up to Safari 4.1.3; OS 10.5.8 can run up to 5.0.6.

No more Camino!!!???😢

This is/was/still my preferred browser of choice!

It was a small footprint browser, easy, straight forward to use, very uncomplicated and a nice, clean looking browser and layout.

I use this over any other browser.

Safari has always just been okay for me and Firefox seemed to get more and more complicated and bloated with each new major release. So, I stopped using it.

Is Camino still safe to use on my iMac? I have the most recent release.

I am really bummed to learn of this. I really like Camino!

The group responsible for working on this did a really great job!

OR should I return to using Firefox.

I am on a late 2009 iMac with OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

No more Camino!!!???😢

This is/was/still my preferred browser of choice!

Camino was my wife's first-choice browser for years, and I still use it for sites that benefit from its very handy allow/deny options for cookies and pop-ups.

Safe? I don't know. The last release was 14 Mar 2012, so v2.1.2 has gone 18 months without an update--a long time.

I'll still keep it around or non-critical stuff.

Later versions of FF are not too cludgy, but I avoid extensions and plug-ins like the plague. All that stuff drags down a browser. I don't like the Chrome interface--feels too much like Windoze. The Thunderbird suite has a new browser that is getting some positive feedback here but I've not tried it.

Like you I'm still on SL for the time being on my iMac (specs below).

yahoo updated my mail this morning to their new mail and i am running firefox 3.6.24 on a g4 mac mini. i don't notice the mail running any slower than before so maybe you should look elsewhere for your problems. it gave me the option of running basic or something else, i forget what it was called. i chose basic.

I am thinking it couod be an Adobe Flash issue because there are no longer any Adobe updates for PowerPC Macs.

So, an OS X upgrade may not help with that issue, at all.

That stated, an OS upgrade would give you access to a more updated Safari and more recent version of Firefox, so that may help with Internet performance a little better.

You may still have some issues, though.

I can't be sure, but Britny is running a lesser Mac than you and is reporting no issues.

Are you running the most recent versions of Safari, Firefox or TenForFox for OS X 10.4.11?

Have you tried clearing out histories, cookies and web caches as a suggested?