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TenFourFox comes in tuned builds for specific processor families:
If you are uncertain just what processor type your G4 Mac has, open the Terminal app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the command machine and press return. You can read more in the Wiki entry; WhichVersion.
- TenFourFox G5
- TenFourFox G3
- TenFourFox G4 - build 7450
- TenFourFox G4 - build 7400 (also for 7410)
If you are uncertain just what processor type your G4 Mac has, open the Terminal app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the command machine and press return. You can read more in the Wiki entry; WhichVersion.
What's New
Version 10.0.2:
New features in this version of TenFourFox:
- Speed improvements to the JavaScript methodjit (issue 118) on all four architectures, with specific code for the G5 processor.
- Software square root for G3 and G4 processors ( issue 96 ), improving performance with certain math-heavy operations.
- This release fixes a high-priority Mozilla security issue (Mozilla bug 727401). This issue affects all previous versions of TenFourFox as well as Firefox 3.6.
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
PPC, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
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TenFourFox comes in tuned builds for specific processor families:If you feel unsure what type of processor you have, go to the Apple menu and choose "About this Mac" and check the processor field.
If you are uncertain just what processor type your G4 Mac has, open the Terminal app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the command
TenFourFox is a fast, efficient web browser based on Firefox 7, but compatible with OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and the PowerPC.
TenFourFox does support most add-ons
The add-ons it does not support are those that contain native Intel code, or, on Tiger Macs, add-ons that contain native code that requires Leopard. You can continue to use add-ons compatible with the same version of Firefox in TenFourFox in most cases. TenFourFox no longer supports plugins or Flash
Plugins on PowerPC are of special concern because Mozilla is making updates to their plugin architecture which may require the plugins themselves to be updated, and there are certain difficult-to-correct bugs with them already on Tiger. Most importantly, Adobe Flash for PowerPC is no longer maintained and has known security risks that can crash or leak data, and QuickTime for Leopard will lose its own support with the release of OS X Lion. In addition, Flash 10.1 is rapidly becoming unsupported by many applications.
As of the previous TenFourFox 6.0, for these and other reasons plugin support ships disabled. Sites will now act as if no plugins were installed at all. For details and an in-depth explanation of this policy and other workarounds, see Why aren't plugins supported in TenFourFox?)
For Internet video, we strongly recommend the use of Perian and any of the available video download add-ons for Firefox.
For YouTube, we recommend MacTubes. If you have a high end G4 or G5, you can also use WebM for selected videos by visiting http://www.youtube.com/html5 and enabling HTML5 video. This will set a temporary cookie enabling browser-based video without Flash.
If you have more questions you can read Frequently asked questions about TenFourFox
If you are uncertain just what processor type your G4 Mac has, open the Terminal app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the command
machine and press return. You can read more in the Wiki entry; WhichVersion. TenFourFox is a fast, efficient web browser based on Firefox 7, but compatible with OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and the PowerPC.
TenFourFox does support most add-ons
The add-ons it does not support are those that contain native Intel code, or, on Tiger Macs, add-ons that contain native code that requires Leopard. You can continue to use add-ons compatible with the same version of Firefox in TenFourFox in most cases. TenFourFox no longer supports plugins or Flash
Plugins on PowerPC are of special concern because Mozilla is making updates to their plugin architecture which may require the plugins themselves to be updated, and there are certain difficult-to-correct bugs with them already on Tiger. Most importantly, Adobe Flash for PowerPC is no longer maintained and has known security risks that can crash or leak data, and QuickTime for Leopard will lose its own support with the release of OS X Lion. In addition, Flash 10.1 is rapidly becoming unsupported by many applications.
As of the previous TenFourFox 6.0, for these and other reasons plugin support ships disabled. Sites will now act as if no plugins were installed at all. For details and an in-depth explanation of this policy and other workarounds, see Why aren't plugins supported in TenFourFox?)
For Internet video, we strongly recommend the use of Perian and any of the available video download add-ons for Firefox.
For YouTube, we recommend MacTubes. If you have a high end G4 or G5, you can also use WebM for selected videos by visiting http://www.youtube.com/html5 and enabling HTML5 video. This will set a temporary cookie enabling browser-based video without Flash.
If you have more questions you can read Frequently asked questions about TenFourFox
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space0matic reviewed on 21 Feb 2012
My problem is when I try to open TFF, it opens, a window appears, (just as it would in FF) but it crashes almost immediately after launching.
Any ideas on how to stop that?
I've tried quitting all of my apps and other browsers, and it still does this.
Thanks
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You can easily see this in the apple menu -> "About this computer". If it doesn't say "PowerPC" you don't have one and TenFourFox is built ONLY for these as you can see in the info above.
Unless you do have a PowerPC machine, I suggest you ask macupdate to delete your rating. Why did you start with a rating before you knew why it crashed? Didn't you see the troubleshooting alternative?
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Dual 2.0 G5, 8gb ram.
See above spaceomatic.
Thanks!
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Javascript performance is more spirited than FF 3.6.26 or the 3.6.27ENG.
FF 3.6 series will not be updated after .27 as it stands now. (Conjecture?)
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Thanks for the people behind TenFourFox for providing a compatible browser that works well. I downloaded it yesterday to a 1.33 GHz PowerBook G4.
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I first thought it was because they were distinguishing Intel ones from PPC ones, but it's the same on Camino's page.
There is probably a good explanation I haven't considered, but it looks pretty weird, as if TFF wasn't worth mentionning...
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ENIGMACODE reviewed on 14 Jan 2012
Adobe Flash Players Not Working Properly:
I'm sure this topic has been covered before. I have 3 G5's #2 Dual Core 2.0's and #1 older SP 1.8. The Dual Core machines have two Browsers installed; TenFourFox ver 4, Safari 4.1.3 with Flash Player ver 10.0 r45. Most Videos play just fine including UTube.
However my older 1.8 SP machine, (with browsers Safari 4.1.3, and TenFourFox ver 9), trying various versions of Flash DO NOT function properly. Each time I've used the Adobe uninstaller, then tried several archived players, including the latest. NONE will yield the same satisfactory results as with the Dual Core machines.
Wonder if this situation could be related to the older 1.8 SP? Or whether the tpye of Video Card has anything to do with it?
Thanx
Mike
Trailer;
http://vimeo.com/7340608
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If your quest is about Flash not working at all in TFF, see the here above troubleshooting tab, and then the trick given by venerable Mikael B on 28 Sep 2011 to enable it. :-)
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"browser.fullscreen.animateUp = 0 (prevents the stupid and sometimes very slow animation when switching to full screen)
[alternatively: browser.fullscreen.autohide=false (leaves the navigation bar visible always)]
browser.preferences.animateFadeIn = false (re-sizing is ok, but fade-in of content is non-standard on OS X anyway)
browser.tabs.animate = false (no more "Assertion Failed. Giving up waiting for the tab closing animation to finish")
browser.panorama.animate_zoom = false (instant switch from tab groups to normal window)
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http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2011/12/awoafy-are-we-old-and-fast-yet-or.html#comment-form
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Anyway, I'm still a happy TFF user and even more happy at each release!
(providing you use the various tricks to bring back Flash and the like ;-)
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friautz reviewed on 16 Nov 2011
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I'm still using Camino myself, but some sites are simply not loading correctly in it, and most of the time TFF does the job!(actually better and faster than any other browser: try a real test on a heavy page that is not in the cache yet; I still love Camino, but except for the launching time of the app itself and the laborious display of the menus in TFF, there's no comparison)
Firefox has always been slow on launching, so TFF is not to blame — actually it really got faster in recent releases.
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pixturesk reviewed on 10 Nov 2011
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One other thing: typing a z in the address field clears everything in it.
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Unfortunately it seems 1GB is the maximum for your machine and that means you'll have to use software with small memory requirements for the best experience.
Even with the older version you'll need to quit at least some other running applications that use up your valuable resources.
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Could you try 4.03 as well and tell us if that was faster?
And this problem "z is clearing the address field" could you please clarify how? You mean if you type "http://thezoo.com" the address field is cleared?
BTW, second hand OS X 10.5 is available for a fair price and I've found it faster and better even on a Powerbook G4 4oo mhz with 1qb of RAM.
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This happened after I downloaded a large number of bookmarks from my Xmarks backup. I also added a few add-ons so I'll inactivate them.
I don't think it's a memory problem as I have 4GB free, but the CPU usage is suspiciously high when i get the beach balls.
I'm going to try and change version too to see if the problem disappear.
I searched for known FF7 bugs involving bookmarks and CPU usage but found nothing conclusive.
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Regarding the "z" problem, a little more testing has shown that typing a letter/symbol that is not in the autocomplete suggestions the URL field clears and erases what has already been typed. Very frustrating.
I have tried Leopard on this iMac but found it more sluggish than Tiger, particularly with any animation (hey it's only 32MB vram). Besides Leopard doesn't run Classic and you can't change its theme.
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I suggest you try it from a fresh new user account (or from a new Firefox profile if you know how to do that).
For what you wrote about Leopard, I agree: on my iMac G5, it brought cosmetic changes, for the most, finder and mail are worse than in Tiger, I stick with it now that I spent so much time to upgrade, but except for Quicklook, it wasn't really worth the pain... (and I still have a Tiger partition to run some specific app!)
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I reenabled the Firebug 1.8.3 addon and I can happily report it doesn't make TFF slower except for when debugging javascripts. The Web Developer active at the same time did slow down my G5 considerably, so I'm dropping that. Firebug is much more useful anyway.
I also added the Gridfox plugin. Great stuff! I will reenable all my web development addons one at a time and see which ones affect the situation.
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Some things are better, some things are worse, some apps have not been updated for Leopard (or I don't want to pay for an update! ;-), it probably depends on what you do with your machine.
I was saying that in my case it wasn't worth the pain. And even more because I'm stuck to Tiger because of my version of Digidesign Pro Tools and some plugins that are not recognized in Leopard.
I have a friend who has Tiger on an iMac Intel and at first I wanted to install her a Snow Leopard, but, considering the pros and cons — and she being happy like that — I've just made the available updates and basta.
I have recently tried Leopard on a G4, but I'm still skeptical... The least I can say is that the improvement was far more important from Panzer to Tiger.
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I recognize your Plugin pain. Perhaps you can go the usual route and keep your PPC machine on Tiger and get a new Intel with Snow Leopard or Lion for the future. I don't see myself losing my G5 as it's the only machine that will run old looping app Infinity well. But that is a classic app so I must boot up in Tiger in orer to use it.
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About the system, I had some process going crazy and paralyzing the iMac (PubSubAgent, spindump, dashboard.advisory...).
On a practical way, I have a 2 screen config for watching TV on main screen while having other activities on the second screen: Leopard not always deals better than Tiger on heavy load.
(I think we'd better stop this digression for not "poluting" ;-)
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In the filter input type "tenfourfox".
You now see TenFourFox related preferences and can set new values by Double clicking each preference. To reenable set "tenfourfox.plugins.enabled" to true and "tenfourfox.layout.hideplugins" to false. If you want the java plugin activated set "tenfourfox.layout.hide_java_plugin" to false. Close the window or go to a web site to verify.
Verified with Flash 10.1. I assume it will work with most other plugins as well.
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Any ideas.
THX
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You could also try the now available TenFourFox 7.0.
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Windows always appear on the second monitor, no matter what I do.
I've tried disabling all add-ons, but no way: even disabling that monitor, it takes a while to default ok to my main monitor (after a number of Quit/Restart...), but when I reactivate the second monitor, it soon returns to his former bad habits! :-(
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I've checked TFF4 and it has quite the same behaviour.
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