
Over time than any other browser he uses (no argument there - Firefox 3 Mac's publisher, says he finds that Firefox 3 seems to slow down more Gecko rendering engine based browsers will ever be a comfortableĪlternative on these old, slow Macs running Tiger. More or less just works, and I'm becoming more doubtful that the later To good old reliable Netscape Navigator 9, which Programs and Classic Mode and reboot, which restored normal behavior,īut it seems an interesting coincidence that it happened after theĬonsequently, for my Gecko browser on the Pismos I've reverted again Of hard drive chatter with intermittent appearances by the spinningīeach ball and started responding v e r y The troubles weren't over, and on Sunday, coincidentally or not, IĮxperienced a near system lockup on the Pismo, which is very rareīehavior for that usual paragon of stability. Third browser on my Macs, is a very solid performer as well.

iCab 4.2.5, which is usually up and running as a Gracefully and quickly than Opera on the Leopard machine). Paradoxically, I find that Camino 1.6.6 handles some pages much more Least for my slow G4 machines running OS X 10.4.11 (although, Scrolling issues, or other drama in Opera 9.2.3, which I have discovered is theīest-performing and most reliable choice in up-to-date browsers - at The problematical website worked perfectly fine with no slowdowns, Sort itself out, I force-quit the program. After waiting for 10 minutes or so to see if it would Intermittent annoyance - in this instance it was completely crippling Noticed running Camino 1.6.6 in Leopard as well, but there it's just an Scroll in any of them (reluctant/choppy scrolling is one issue I've I could switch between open tabs, but I couldn't Research for a newspaper column, I visited a website that broughtĬamino 1.6.6 to a virtual standstill. Substantially, with obvious signs of the memory heap clogging up So far, Camino 1.6.6 is running quite nicely on my Classic Mode-lessīack on the Pismo, by day five performance had begun to slow down Give up Classic functionality (and speed) that isn't available in

Consequently, that issue may not be a problem at all for anyīut we dogged holdouts running elderly hardware who are disinclined to
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In OS X, but the issue is absent with Tex Edit Plus 4.9.8 for Scrolling add-on, for which there is no satisfactory analog that works Pismos for a variety of functional reasons, particularly Classic Mode's Plus 4.1.3, which is the version I use for production work on the Seem to be mainly or even exclusively an issue with Classic apps. Into browser window fields or just bringing Camino forward coming fromĪ Classic mode application gradually worsened with uptime. The sluggishness in dragging blocks of text However, as the week unfolded, Camino 1.6.6's performance on the G4 PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" as well. In fact, I was initially liking it so much that I shut down Firefox 3 and switched to

In OS X Classic Disk Mode - seemed to have been fixed to some
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When using it in conjunction with Mac OS Classic applications running Sluggishness I had noted in earlier versions of Camino - particularly Camino 1.6.6 was fast, and interface glitches and My workaday web browser on my old faithful G4-enhanced Pismo PowerBooks running MacĪs I reported here last week, initially things seemed to be going As I related here last week, I had decided to give
