
I've done some tests on my G4, including and and both show v38.10 as a lot better than v31.8 (v45.7 is yet a bit better but not that much).īut when it comes to real life testing, it's another story: v38 takes 6s more to launch, and every site I've tried is slower (from 1 to 10s more, depending on the site's complexity).

The purpose of TFF is not to give you the fastest browser ever but to let you run a nearly up to date browser on your old machines.Īs I mentioned in a former review, if you value more speed, stick to version 31.8.
#Mozilla firefox for mac 10.8.5 software#
One word of warning though: Tenfourfox follows Firefox development, meaning that, as any growing software since computers exist, it gets slower across versions. Be careful to pick the right version for your processor and be aware that also Firefox can mess up an old profile (it happened to me in the past!), especially with some extensions) )ĭon't believe the absurd bad reviews below! :-D I've tested all recent versions on an iMac G5 2.1 GHz and a Mac Mini G4 1.25 GHz.

I've also applied the fonts advice on my Intel Macs with Waterfox and Firefox. Now, with its RAM maxed out, TFF's built-in basic adblock alone is the overall best choice - if you don't mind trackers, etc.īefore applying those advices, TFF ate CPU for 50s at launch before calming down, then nearly the same time for loading very heavy sites: now I've achieved 20s launch time and even the heaviest site takes less than 20s to display ("normal" pages load between 4s and 8s). My little G4 mini was lacking RAM until today, so it was faster filtering heavy pages with uBlock +uMatrix +Decentraleyes (as calculations were made in virtual memory i.e.


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.
