Comments on: Mozilla to Drop OS 10.4 Tiger Support? Say It Isn’t So

By: Snowy

Snowy — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:35:06 +0000

It is hardly a great advertisement for Apple that when you buy a Macintosh it costs almost twice as much as a comparable PC and will be obsolete in half the time!

By: stone.jws@verizon.net

stone.jws@verizon.net — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:25 +0000

Snow Leopard is slow as crap. I am having to seriously think about rolling it back to tiger. SL is the Vista of OS X. Apple better watch it.

By: absurdsequitur

absurdsequitur — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:07:41 +0000

You guys are forgetting that Firefox is open source — what you need is someone with a reasonable grasp on the code to fork off a “TigerFox” variant, where they can manually roll the security updates in themselves, or recompile new versions of FF to run on Tiger. Similar to the IceWeasel variant on Debian (although that is only a difference in logos really, not code).

I personally hate to see old but still very usable hardware go to waste over something as simple as this.

Oh, and for those that are planning on upgrading to new hardware, don’t waste the old — install a PPC version of Linux and re-use the machines for other purposes (kids computers, home servers, etc), or consider loading Linux and then donating them, lots of charities could use serviceable word processing/internet machines.

By: Firefox Running From Tigers » pyn.me

Firefox Running From Tigers » pyn.me — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:33:09 +0000

[...] that with the release of the next version of Firefox, support for Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger, will permanently be dropped. Reasons for the move are level-headed, actually, and it only makes sense given that Apple [...]

By: Tuttle

Tuttle — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:35:20 +0000

There’s one other feature of 10.4 that 10.5 lacks; Classic Compatibility.

Believe you me, if I could go back in time and assassinate the makers of 4d before they could release their unholy spawn on an unsuspecting world I’d do it, but in lieu of a handy time machine, ninja suit and icepick I’m stuck with 80 10.4 machines until the dev team can move the database over to something usable by a modern machine. It’s only been 5 years since they started that project… should be any day now.

By: tcarlson

tcarlson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:56:19 +0000

Well, actually, he’s right…

http://www.9to5mac.com/tiger_support_ends_50067

Check your facts before you get all snarky. Cheers…

By: Dan C

Dan C — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:05:45 +0000

Mac OS X 10.4.11 is just over two years old, and already companies are dumping support for it. That’s just pitiful, and poor planning – from both Apple and 3rd party developers.

Mozilla: don’t let the door hit you in the a** on the way out. Safari 4 runs just fine on Tiger and it’s FASTER and MORE STABLE than Firefox 3.6. Gimme a call when you get your act in gear. ya right.

By: tcarlson

tcarlson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:31:05 +0000

Oh, Charles, even the evil Microsoft will be supporting Windows XP (Tiger’s equivalent in the Windows world) until 2014. Bad Apple.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:56:02 +0000

Still use two Pismos also. TIger runs great on the Pismos. Sea Monkey is a great browser for Tiger and the Pismo, lets hope that continues.

By: tcarlson

tcarlson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:24:12 +0000

Charles, those of us who still use older PPC Macs that don’t run well (or at all) with Mac OS X Leopard will eventually have 3 choices: continue to use their outdated software (it won’t stop working just because it’s unsupported), buy a new machine, or switch to Linux. PPC Linux will have an up-to-date version of Firefox (Iceweasel on Debian) well into the future.