![]() ![]() Most importantly, Adobe Flash for PowerPC is no longer maintained and has known security risks that can crash or leak data, some sites require versions not available on the PowerPC, and QuickTime for Leopard will lose its own support with the release of OS X Lion. ![]() final point: built-in basic adblock of TFF.my second point is about extensions: most of you already know it, but keep them as few as possible.Thanks to TFF's dev, I've learned that those browsers enumerate the available fonts in your system, so minimizing their number will gain a considerable amount of time, especially for slow machines.My FPR15 review will be more of a "best practices with TFF and any Firefox based browser": For these and other reasons, TenFourFox does not run plugins, and they cannot be enabled. My little G4 mini was lacking RAM until today, so it was faster filtering heavy pages with uBlock +uMatrix +Decentraleyes (as calculations were made in virtual memory i.e. Now, with its RAM maxed out, TFF's built-in basic adblock alone is the overall best choice - if you don't mind trackers, etc.īefore applying those advices, TFF ate CPU for 50s at launch before calming down, then nearly the same time for loading very heavy sites: now I've achieved 20s launch time and even the heaviest site takes less than 20s to display ("normal" pages load between 4s and 8s). I've also applied the fonts advice on my Intel Macs with Waterfox and Firefox. )ĭon't believe the absurd bad reviews below! :-D I've tested all recent versions on an iMac G5 2.1 GHz and a Mac Mini G4 1.25 GHz. Be careful to pick the right version for your processor and be aware that also Firefox can mess up an old profile (it happened to me in the past!), especially with some extensions) Tenfourfox stable mac# One word of warning though: Tenfourfox follows Firefox development, meaning that, as any growing software since computers exist, it gets slower across versions. ![]()
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