Browsers for G4 system

Today, I am going to address the browser problem for the G4 systems. Well, as well all know, G4s are not famous for web browsers. They can be very very very slow. This post is gonna give you tips about web browsing on your G4 enjoyable again.

The main problem with G4 web browsing is that our web is constantly evolving, if we were back to the 2005 internet, the G4s would be very, very fast. Now computers more power, so webs are designed more sophisticated because they could be accommodated by the more powerful computers. The only problem is that they forgot about US. The old computer users.

I will give you a list from the browsers you can choose from

-Safari
-Firefox
-Camino
-TenFourFox
-Aurorafox
-Webkit

these are main web browsers, their less known ones such as Opera

Safari and Firefox are unsupported and are very slow, I do not recommend you to use these browsers.

Camino has not been supported since 3 years, but I found that flash pretty well, (I was able to stream a movie from putlocker!) Youtube runs at around 360p on my iBook G4. I use this to play online games, watch movies, stream youtube and sometimes go on flash extensive sites.

TenFourFox is a great web browser. But it lacks support for flash and Java. It's pretty fast, but not as fast as I would like it to be. I use this as my main web browser. This for everyday stuff such as blogging, web browsing, and sometimes some youtube.

Webkit is the fastest honestly, LOVE IT. It can stream videos, it can use flash, java, javascript and everyday stuff. ONE PROBLEM, Webkit on my iBook has a LOT of glitches, when javascript is on, the browser crashes very often. When javascript is off, I can't even go on my browser. Random crashes on Webkit made me sick of it, but once the developers fix them up, I'm back to good old Webkit.

Aurorafox is claimed to be not bad, but that was a while ago. It's no longer updated (I believe) and it's slow after you have experienced TenFourFox and Webkit.

Conclusion, the combination of Webkit, Camino and Tenfourfox is awesome. It might be a little annoying switching between browser and browser, but what choice do you have? Hope this helped, give them all a try!

Have a great day!