![]() Sites will now act as if no plugins were installed at all. TenFourFox no longer supports plugins or Flash - As of the previous TenFourFox 6.0, for the following reasons plugin support ships disabled. On the G4 Mac open the Terminal app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the command machine. If you feel unsure what type of PowerPC processor your Mac has, go to the Apple menu and choose "About this Mac" and check the processor field. It comes in different tuned versions for specific PowerPC processor families: (OS X 10.4.11 Tiger PowerPC and OS X 10.6.TenFourFox is a fast, efficient Web browser always based on the current version of Firefox, but unlike the main distribution TenFourFox is compatible with OS X 10.4 and 10.5 running on PowerPC processors. TenFourFox: A fork of Mozilla Firefox for the Power Macintosh *PowerPC users also have an option instead of using Firefox 3.6.28 as an alternative for Safari/Webkit: That's a summary of things as things stand as of April 20, 2013, and part of the point of listing the information in a clear fashion is also so that OS X 10.6.8 Intel users won't waste their time downloading WebKit r127852 for Snow Leopard at this time. Many longtime Mac users have several older PowerPC machines and a newer Intel CPU machine running side by side (all counted by Apple Corporate as "Intel" CPU users for advertising purposes), so there are clear reasons that users track software compatibility - including web browser engines - for a number of the operating systems they run on multiple hardwares. OS X 10.6.8 Intel users don't have a functional WebKit engine to use alongside Safari Version 5.1.9 (6534.59.8) - unless either an individual user finds or creates a fix, or the next Safari update for OS X 10.6.8 Intel from Apple just happens to fix the issue. Leopard-webkit - builds of current WebKit frameworks for Mac OS X 10.5 (PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel) - Google Project Hosting OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC* and Intel users do have: ![]() OS X 10.4.11 PowerPC* and Intel users do have a functional version of WebKit r81558 engine to use alongside Safari 4.1.3 WebKit-533.21.1-Tiger after install, gives "Safari Version 4.1.3 (4533.19.4, 533+)" when launched and "contains all bugfixes that Apple made to the 533 series of WebKit after the release of Safari 4.1.3, which came with 533.19.4.". Respectfully, I was pointing out that OS X 10.6.8 Intel is quite in use, why it's quite in use, and that it is being updated by Apple (in terms of security updates, java updates, and Safari updates). * If a standalone version of the "Rosetta" dynamic binary translator compatible with OS X 10.7.x and OS x 10.8.x, that users could purchase and install is ever released, this situation might change. Note: Raymond Chen of Microsoft has pointed for many years, that "backwards software compatibility' on any computing Platform/OS is not a game", and also pointed out that was one of the primary reasons that some versions of Windows ended up being the predominant operating systems, even if other Platforms/operating systems were more advanced in some areas. Apple has also resumed selling Snow Leopard. As Computerworld and InsanelyMac recently pointed out, Apple is supporting OS X 10.6.8 for it's Intel CPU users - As 45% of the OS X Intel users are running OS X 10.6.8 for needed software compatibility (including for any program or utility that requires the QuickTransit technology "Rosetta" dynamic binary translator to run *), this shouldn't be surprising.
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