Rufus wrote:
Iceman wrote:
On Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:32 -0700, Rufus wrote in message
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Iceman wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:22:38 -0700, Rufus wrote in message
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Geoff Welsh wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Iceman wrote:
I've been wondering if I should try the Macintosh version of
SeaMonkey on
my MacBook OS X 10.5.6. They say it's a Beta version, that
should be
used
with caution.
Has anybody had any experience of using SeaMonkey on Mac? Any
forums or
blogs you can point me to?
Seamonkey works very well on a Mac, however if you are running
10.5.6 on
a PPC Mac you will be limited to version 1.1.19 for an official
build.
The latest OEM releases are Intel only.
There are a third party PPC releases of current versions of
Seamonkey,
but I don't have any experience with them. Available here, if that's
what you're looking at -
https://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/
Personally, I quite dealing with beta releases after a particularly
destructive experience in updating from a 1.1.x version while
evaluating
one...but hopefully that's resolved by now. Hopefully...
He said MacBook. PPC was in PowerBook
GW
...but he's running 10.5.6, so I have to assume he's on a PPC machine.
And I'd suggest he at least update to 10.5.8.
Which, actually, is what I have. Sorry for the mistake.
However, I can't use the latest version on 10.5.8. What's the newest
usable
version for Mac OS X 10.5.8? (I just can't get used to those big-cat
names.)
The main question is if you are running 10.5.8 on a PPC Mac, like I am
on my G5 iMac - in that case it's 1.1.19 as far as the official
releases go.
If it's 10.5.8 on an Intel Mac then anything up to and including 2.17
should run. I think...
Like I said, I can't use 2.17. I dl'ed it and it wouldn't run.
I then got 1.1.19, which did work. However, it's a 3-year-old release and
may have problems with security. Also, a page I tried came out rather
poorly (too much javascript?) Still, it was worth trying out.
Thanks for your help.
But you haven't answered my question - if you have a PPC or Intel iMac.
If it's a PPC machine, yes - 2.17 will *not* run on it, and yes,
you're stuck using 1.1.19 if you want to stick with an official release.
And even if you can find a 2.x.x release that was still PPC enabled, the
early releases were *seriously* buggy, with *serious* upgrade/migration
issues...so 1.1.19 is your best bet. That's what I run under 10.5.8.
Hey, Geoff have you tried the SM 2.17 version for PPC available from
this site??
http://code.google.com/p/seamonkey-ppc/
May be worthwhile for others in this thread to give it a go as well!!
I'm not Mac, so don't know.
--
Daniel
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