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(Unverified)Aug 27th 2010 3:56AM
So this is more of an issue than you think.
There are a lot of PPC machines that are still perfectly serviceable - think Dual G5 powermacs, or even the amazing little 12" powerbooks that are still one of the best little portables Apple has made.
Assuming Camino goes the same way as FF, your choices for a modern browser on these are as follows:
Safari - as of 4.x EXTREMELY slow
Opera
..Thats it. Chrome doesn't support PPC. So you either have to learn to like Opera (which is hard for some) or put up with ludicrous performance in Safari. Not a great choice really.
Apocalyptic 0n3Aug 27th 2010 8:10AM
Or stick to Fx 3.6. If the world of computing wants to progress, older machines have to be left behind. It's how things work. There will be people on PPC for the next decade because people refuse to upgrade until their machine dies. We can't wait for them to upgrade before we try to make progress in software development. As it is, PPC machines can't even run the latest version of OS X. If Apple has stopped developing for their own hardware, why should anyone else? Additionally, I doubt they would have done this without strong statistics saying that PPC machines make up next to nothing (maybe 1-2%) of their userbase now.
(Unverified)Aug 27th 2010 11:16AM
Opera is GREAT choice.