Opera has come a long way in the past year, but it is still way behind its competitors.
Anyone still using Mac OS X 10.2 can’t run current versions of any of these browsers.
Of the nine browser versions reviewed here, only four can run on Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther – but that includes some of the best ones. Some of them, like Flock, while they will work on a G3, require a G4 for decent performance.Įditor’s note: For those using older versions of OS X, we sometimes include system requirements for versions earlier than the one reviewed. There are a lot of browsers for Tiger, but some of them I wouldn’t put in the lightweight category and therefore didn’t include in my testing. It is a 400 MHz with 1 GB of RAM, a new 5400 rpm 40 GB hard drive with AirPort Card and running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger with all the latest updates installed. After looking carefully at my results and some of the comments I received, I have retested some of the more lightweight browsers on my Pismo PowerBook G3. I recently tested as many browsers as I could find, but the test machine was my iMac Core Duo running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. There might be old copies of Lion, Mountain Lion, and even Snow Leopard for sale on sites like eBay.As a user of older Macs, especially G3s, lightweight apps make your day-to-day usage a lot easier, and this extends to web browsers. Non-developers can buy OS X Mountain Lion ($19.99) and OS X Lion ($19.99) from Apple directly. Apple will email you an unlock code, which you can redeem in the Mac App Store. If you have a valid Apple Developer account, you might be able to download older versions from /downloads. This will put an installation app in your Applications folder, which you should leave there. Once any of these downloads are complete, mount the.
Leave the installation app in your Applications folder.ĭirect Disk Image Links for Older macOS Downloads Once any of these downloads finishes, do not open the installer to begin the installation. Mac App Store Links for Older macOS Downloads
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