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TenFourFox for Intel is the surprise of the bunch, scoring the second highest HTML5 score, giving you full screen browsing, and still supporting all those wonderful old (and sometimes risky) plug-ins and add-ons Firefox was once so famous for. The price you pay is high memory use.įor speed, it’s hard to beat Stainless, which loads lickity-split and uses memory pretty efficiently. Overall, Chrome wins for highest HTML5 score, full screen support, and working with all three HTML5 video standards. HTML5 Video notes whether H.264, Ogg Theora, and WebM are supported. Full Screen indicates whether the browser supports full screen mode, which can be toggled using Cmd-Shift-F. In the table below, browser size on disk is rounded up to the next full MB. TenFourFox for Intel is unsupported and no longer under development, but if you’re one of those Tiger or Leopard holdouts on Intel, it is an option. Not that TenFourFox for Intel gets you a whole lot further, being the version 17 release, but it is a generation newer. So why in the world is there an Intel version of TenFourFox? Because some people are still running Tiger and Leopard on their old Intel Macs, and Firefox left them high and dry after version 16. TenFourFox began as a PowerPC-specific port of Firefox so people still using OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard on G3, G4, and G5 machines would have a more up-to-date version of Firefox than Mozilla provides. TenFourFox: What’s This Doing on Intel Macs? It’s middle of the pack for HTML5 support, but in the real world it gets the job done. Stainless loads quickly, uses RAM efficiently, and runs very nicely. Stainless: Different in Some Good WaysĪlthough Stainless only made it to version 0.8, it’s become one of my favorite browsers, especially when working with WordPress on my Macs. I can’t think of a good reason to choose it with so many solid alternatives available. It was adequate in its day, but that day is long past. Safari 5 is the reason we’re looking at other browsers.

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Then again, neither is any Intel Mac running Leopard. It’s a nice enough browser, but it’s not even close to current. Snow Leopard users can run Opera 25, the current version is 30, and Leopard only supports up to version 12.16 from 2013.

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Still, OmniWeb has been stuck at version 5.11.2 for a long time now with no sign that an update is actually coming. In this case, it’s second oldest – Safari 5 is a year older.

In my overview of Snow Leopard browsers, I point out that although OmniWeb was the first OS X browser, it was the oldest one for OS X 10.6. It’s a competent browser, and it does have full screen browsing, but you have better options. Snow Leopard users can run version 38, but Leopard users only get version 16. Like Chrome, Firefox is also way behind the times.

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To get the most out of Chrome on a low memory Mac, use as few tabs and windows as possible. It’s also one of the few browsers for Leopard that supports full screen browsing.

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On the plus side, it has the highest level of support for HTML5 among these browsers and is the only one to support all three HTML5 video standards: H.264, Theora, and WebM. It’s three years old at present and a memory hog, just like every version of Chrome. If you’re using OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, you can run the latest version of Chrome, which is. Chrome: Behind the Times and a Memory Hog It’s far from state-of-the-art, but if you’re looking for something quick on a low memory Mac, it’s a decent choice. Camino has not been updated since 2013, and that version is based on Firefox 19 – two generations newer than Firefox for Leopard and one generation newer than TenFourFox for Intel. That is the only reason I keep using it.Ĭamino has a light footprint and runs quickly on OS X 10.4 Tiger or later, so it’s a good option for older Intel Macs. I still use Camino regularly, but only for one reason: I can open my HTML files of old Low End Mac pages in Camino, select all, copy, and then paste them into WordPress without the browser making a mess of things. Here are the latest browser versions supported in OS X 10.5 on Intel Macs by the year of their last update: If you’re running Leopard, you’re going to be using older versions of browsers and of Flash – Flash 10.3.183.90 is latest version for Leopard on Intel. Leopard can run decently on a 1 GB system, and while it officially supports a 512 MB configuration, you really don’t want to go there. Snow Leopard will run on a Mac with less than 2 GB of memory, but it won’t run well on a 1 GB Mac. Frankly, we can only think of one good reason for running OS X 10.5 Leopard on an Intel Mac: You don’t have enough system memory to run OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard decently and you’re not willing to invest in more RAM.*

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