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> Note also that software support is now pretty weak for these old releases - you struggle to find any modern web browsers that still run, for example.

In my fantasy land, I would browse the web with Firefox ESR 45.9.0, which as of this moment is recent enough to be mostly usable.

Other than that, I feel like software support would be a mixed bag. Newer apps wouldn't work, but I'd gain compatibility with older apps that are broken on modern macOS. And since it looks like more and more future apps are just going to be bizarre iOS ports with alien UIs...




If you are running a PowerPC you can use this pretty up-to-date Firefox fork: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/


Thanks, I would love it if something like this existed for Intel processors.


Oh, Intel builds exist! https://sourceforge.net/projects/tenfourfox/files/unstable/c...

They're "unsupported", but, uh, so is Snow Leopard in 2019.


And yet another option: Arctic-Fox https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox

Massive kudos to the developers maintaining this stuff, it's all lovely!




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