It’s also one of the few browsers for Leopard that supports full screen browsing. To get the most out of Chrome on a low memory Mac, use as few tabs and windows as possible. Like Chrome, Firefox is also way behind the times. Snow Leopard users can run version 38, but Leopard users only get version 16. It’s a competent browser, and it does have full screen browsing, but you have better options. 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. In this case, it’s second oldest – Safari 5 is a year older. Still, OmniWeb has been stuck at version 5.11.2 for a long time now with no sign that an update is actually coming. Snow Leopard users can run Opera 25, the current version is 30, and Leopard only supports up to version 12.16 from 2013. It’s a nice enough browser, but it’s not even close to current. Then again, neither is any Intel Mac running Leopard. Safari 5 is the reason we’re looking at other browsers. It was adequate in its day, but that day is long past. I can’t think of a good reason to choose it with so many solid alternatives available. 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. Stainless loads quickly, uses RAM efficiently, and runs very nicely. 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. 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. 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.
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