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| Quote: Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. | |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:56 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support | |||||||||
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support |
Time is running out for PPC Macs. 
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:01 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support | |||||||||
There's nothing to stop you or anyone else starting a PPC spin-off for Firefox. All you need is a foxy name and lots of time and knowledge. |
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| Author: | steve74 [ Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support |
If you don't like Safari, there's still Camino 2 which still works on PowerPC Macs, and as far as I know isn't dropping PowerPC support any time soon. As Camino's built on the same underlying code as its Mozilla couisin, then it should behave in the same way as Firefox. I prefer Camino as it feels more like a Mac application to me, whereas Firefox has always felt like a Windows app, dunno why but it just doesn't feel right to me. Camino's pretty damn fast, and it also has built-in banner ad blocking and Flash blocking - without relying on plug-ins that can sometime break when the browser's updated. I've been using Camino as my main browser for 2 or 3 years now, no problems with it at all. |
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| Author: | davrosG5 [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support |
Except that it's not Firefox that's dropping support for 10.4 it's the Gecko rendering engine which I presume Camino uses as well. Therefore whenever Camino moves to that version of Gecko it will also loose support for 10.4. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support |
Seeing as Gecko is open source, it would take some clever people to fork it and maintain it for PPC. Having said that, I think there is still Ubuntu for PPC, so as long as you drop Mac OS, you can take up a Linux variant... |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 10:10 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support | |||||||||
It has to be said though anyone still on OS 10.4 doesn't really sound like the kind of person who bothers to update things all that often anyway... Jon |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:22 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support | |||||||||
I'm on 10.4 using the latest Firefox, Safari, and Adobe CS4 (actually, I don't use it, I use CS3 for compatibility with next door, but it's installed). I would upgrade to Leopard, but I still need to use classic occasionally. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:32 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox calls time on Mac OS X 10.4 support | |||||||||
And that is a major problem, I still see some apps which were never ported to OS X. They are few and far between, but for people who rely on them, they are the show stoppers. |
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