• Firefox For Os X 10.8.5

Run Firefox 4 on a PowerPC Mac with TenFourFox May 10, 2011 - 6 Comments TenFourFox is an essential web browser for any Mac OS X user that is still using a PowerPC machine. Doesn't work on Tiger (MacOS X 10.4.x for the non-cognoscenti.), hence the low rating. It's a shame really: Mozilla is following in Google's footsteps when it comes to Apple OSes, and forgets that not all Mac users can or want to switch to Snow Leopard. How to Download Firefox for Mac OS X. There are many great Web browsers available for Mac users and Firefox is certainly one of them. Firefox offers many features that make it worthy of a download, including its easy accessibility. I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11 'Intel,' TenFourFox doesn't help with that. Whenever I load Firefox it tells me to upgrade to 12.0 for security reasons. 12.0 is most definitely not compatible with the version of OS X on my MacBook Pro.

Barring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox. Mozilla stopped supporting Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, in September 2009, but left a large amount of Tiger bits in the development code. Now, said Josh Aas, a platform engineer for Mozilla who works on Mac OS X integration, it's time to either restore support for the five-year-old operating system or remove the code from the development tree. 'We would like to take advantage of more modern technologies on Mac OS X and 10.4 support has been a hindrance,' said Aas in a message yesterday on the forum. 'Where we can work around supporting 10.4, doing so consumes valuable time and effort. Neither Chrome nor Safari has to deal with this.' [ Further reading: ] According to Mozilla's metrics, 24% of those running the Mac version of Firefox 3.5 rely on Tiger, while 12% of those running the just-released Firefox 3.6 do.

Half of all users run Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, while 59% run Firefox 3.6 on OS X 10.6,. Aas noted that Tiger users can continue to run Firefox 3.6, which supports the older operating system, until that version is retired from support.

Firefox For Os X 10.8.5

Currently, that end-of-support would come sometime in 2011, as Mozilla doesn't expect to to its open-source browser until late this year at the earliest. Mozilla's policy is to support an edition for approximately six months after a new version ships. 'We are often one of the last vendors to continue supporting older Mac OS X releases,' said Aas. There was only one dissenting voice on the forum, but he took Mozilla to task for ditching him. 'As it stands now, it [is] impractical for me [to] update either machine due to lack of funds,' Phillip Jones said in a message today, referring to a pair of PowerPC-based Macs running Tiger.