![]() ![]() Like what you have read? Send Simon a donation via Tip Jar. ![]() One thing for sure, this is a sad day for PowerPC users.įollow Simon Royal on Twitter or send him an Email. ![]() Most importantly, Adobe Flash for PowerPC is no longer maintained and has known. We’re left in a catch 22 situation: Do you keep an outdated browser to have support for an outdated Flash plugin, or do you upgrade to a newer supported browser version while forsaking Flash altogether. Im running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Intel, TenFourFox doesnt help with that. This is a huge blow for the PowerPC community.įlash for PowerPC stopped at version 10.1, with some unofficial 11.1 and 11.5 hacks, and while it is behind the x86 world, it still works for about 90% of the Web. While still having a maintained browser for the foreseeable future, it does mean that Flash support, amongst others, is going to be a no go. Mozilla removed the support for Carbon and QuickDraw in plugins in Firefox which virtually all PPC-compatible plugins are based on, thus ending the possibility of plugins to continue for PowerPC Macs. TenFourFox 17 looks set to be the last version to support plugins. In version 6, the TenFourFox team disabled plugin support by default, but it could be enabled ( instructions here), however, in recent shocking news it appears that plugin support in future versions of TenFourFox will be removed altogether (extensions and add-ons remain). Each release of TenFourFox mirrors Firefox as closely as possible. Luckily, Cameron Kaiser and his team have been back porting newer version of Firefox to PPC Macs in the form of TenFourFox. At writing this the official Firefox is currently at version 21, whereas TenFourFox is sitting at version 17.0.6 ( with a beta of 21). 3 replies 1 has this problem 9 views Last reply by jdahl01 6 years ago. This was the first version not to support the PowerPC platform. Mozilla released Firefox 4 in April 2011. The browser does not support Flash or Java and does not run on Intel based Macintoshes. The future of PowerPC web browsing is looking even bleaker with the recent announcement of no plugin support in future releases of TenFourFox. TenFourFox is available in at least a dozen languages and is a free download. ![]()
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