Having trouble with internet connections using my Apple G5. Updates turn out to be incompatible with my system. What should I do short of trashing the wonderful computer and spending cash I don't have on a new iMac?

Hi Chuck,

TenFourFox is the most up to date browser for our PPCs, they even have G4 & G5 optimized versions...

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

I'd avoid vesrion 24 though, as it no longer supports plug-ins like Flash.

SeaMonkey seems pretty fast also, with many options...

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

Might also look into iCab & OmniWeb versions.

Also...

The last really supported Flash for PPC was 10.1.102.64, but if it's for like Facebook or such, people have been fooling FB to think they have a leter version installed.

Texas Mac Man's Flash hack/post...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3599648?tstart=0

Flash player 11.1 hack on PowerPC - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3558589?answerId=16990862022#16990862022

Might be later ones around also... saw 11.3 I think.

(If you are running a PPC Mac with Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and are having problems with watching videos on FaceBook or other sites, contributor Texas Mac Man suggests the following solution which fools the site into thinking that you are running the latest version:)

Download this http://www.steelbin.com/FPforFBPPC.zip to your desktop, unzip it, and replace the current Flash Player plug-in which is in your main/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, (not the user Library). Save the old one just in case this one doesn't work.

See in each Browser which version of Flash it thinks it has...

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html

As BDAqua told you forget about Safari and Firefox, go for TenFourFox (Firefox for 10.4) and OmniWeb.

If you watch videos on Youtube get Mactubes version 3.1.6, until recently it worked for all videos.

If you chat or phone on internet you've got Skype version 2.8.0.866 which works very well, but won't let you videochat with someone with the latest Skype versions on other platforms.

If you like internetTV or internetradio you've got XBMC version 11.

You could read:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3630255?tstart=0

It may be better if we resolved your: "trouble with internet connections". Can you give further details about the nature of the trouble? Strictly browser issues should not cause internet connection difficulties.