On May 18, 2021, at 12:45 PM, R. A. Cantrell <rac...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was gifted an iMac G5 1.8 a few years ago and fiddled with it a while and 
> could not get it to a very serviceable situation. Has Safari, has Firefox, 
> but I get a lot of "could not establish secure connection" and "unsupported 
> browser" responses. I would like to get it sorted out so that I can re-gift 
> it to some people who need it. It has 10.4.11 running and the computer seems 
> to run right, but it will present insurmountable difficulties for the 
> intended end user. Any help?

You're getting HTTPS errors because the SSL/TLS standards have advanced, and 
the older ones are no longer supported for security reasons.

You could install MacPorts and the curl and openssl packages to allow 
command-line downloading, but I don't see you getting a usable web browsing 
experience out of this machine.  On the other hand, it would work fine for 
running PPC-only and non-Carbon classic applications (such as many games), so 
perhaps you could find someone interested in that.

Josh

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