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28th June 2012, 06:52 PM
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OS X 10.5 Leopard...yeah I know it's old but still works so what?
Should I ditch Chrome or not worry about updates? It's become my primary browser on my old mac though everyone in the house uses FF or Safari. I've not gotten "warnings" from FF or Safari about 10.5.
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28th June 2012, 07:33 PM
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29th June 2012, 05:35 PM
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Reps: 232,538,676,094,357,952 (power: 232,538,676,094,374) | | Originally Posted by C-Man  Chrome will probably ditch Windows XP next. No particular reason to, just to make people buy a new OS to keep using their stuff.
The cynic in me would agree, but then there's also the pragmatic side that reminds me that if the requisite libraries it's built against can no longer reasonably support XP due to system calls that XP plain doesn't have, there's little that can be done. Short of learning to build Chromium from source, anyway. If that would even resolve it without additional patching.
The same applies to OSX - the realities (and politics) of software development are pretty much platform-agnostic.
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29th June 2012, 08:18 PM
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Reps: 328,488,403,102,567,168 (power: 328,488,403,102,591) | | Originally Posted by Qyöt27 The cynic in me would agree, but then there's also the pragmatic side that reminds me that if the requisite libraries it's built against can no longer reasonably support XP due to system calls that XP plain doesn't have, there's little that can be done. Short of learning to build Chromium from source, anyway. If that would even resolve it without additional patching.
The same applies to OSX - the realities (and politics) of software development are pretty much platform-agnostic.
Yeah I know change continues...if my mac would just die then I could justify getting a new mini but like my 275K mile Accord some things just keep goin' on.. 
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30th June 2012, 03:12 AM
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30th June 2012, 06:20 AM
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Reps: 328,488,403,102,567,168 (power: 328,488,403,102,591) | | Originally Posted by Sketcher You should be a good little Apple consumer and upgrade. Upgrades are stylish. And sometimes functional.
I don't know, I felt insulted when they said my unit was "vintage" and unworthy of upgrade I did buy an iPod Touch last month so maybe that will keep in the good graces of the Apple FanBoy Club 
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30th June 2012, 06:45 AM
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Reps: 232,538,676,094,357,952 (power: 232,538,676,094,374) | | | I'd ignore the peanut gallery concerning the 'pointless to upgrade' comments. If I listened to them I don't know where I'd be. My desktop is 11 years old, and has been upgraded (in hardware) multiple times, including fairly recently if you count 2010 as being 'fairly recent'.
And having seen the performance difference that Snow Leopard makes on an iMac that originally ran Tiger, I won't even hesitate to once more recommend that upgrade if it's possible (i.e., if the computer in question is an Intel; Snow Leopard isn't available for PowerPC). $30 is far more economical than buying an entirely new $700+ computer, or even compared to the cost of buying a new copy of Windows, and the upgrade process was one of the most painless things I'd ever had to manage.
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1st July 2012, 01:16 AM
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Reps: 3,089,691,047,313,346,560 (power: 3,089,691,047,313,354) | | Originally Posted by Qyöt27 Short of learning to build Chromium from source, anyway. If that would even resolve it without additional patching.
The same applies to OSX - the realities (and politics) of software development are pretty much platform-agnostic.
Looks like 10.5 is out in the cold for Chromium, - An Intel Mac running 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) or 10.7. V8 does not support PowerPC, 10.5 ("Leopard") is unable to link the larger Chromium libraries, and the code does not link with linker gcc included with any Xcode version less than 3.2.6.
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1st July 2012, 06:36 AM
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Reps: 328,488,403,102,567,168 (power: 328,488,403,102,591) | | Originally Posted by Qyöt27 I'd ignore the peanut gallery concerning the 'pointless to upgrade' comments. If I listened to them I don't know where I'd be. My desktop is 11 years old, and has been upgraded (in hardware) multiple times, including fairly recently if you count 2010 as being 'fairly recent'.
And having seen the performance difference that Snow Leopard makes on an iMac that originally ran Tiger, I won't even hesitate to once more recommend that upgrade if it's possible (i.e., if the computer in question is an Intel; Snow Leopard isn't available for PowerPC). $30 is far more economical than buying an entirely new $700+ computer, or even compared to the cost of buying a new copy of Windows, and the upgrade process was one of the most painless things I'd ever had to manage.
Mine is an intel duo-core mini that came with Tiger~I have SL upgrade disc but there is something wrong with the HD that won't let SL fully upload (I forget now what Disk Utility came up with). I even had an Apple guy on the phone for about an hour trying to figure it out but with no success. I've thought about replacing the HD & upgrading memory myself (I've replaced some components on PCs)~they're inexpensive enough and I've seen enough articles and vids to see it doesn't look that difficult...but you know you're right I should do it even if I have to do it myself. Everything is backed up in two separate places I should just crack open that little box (that hasn't been opened since I bought it in 2006  ) and do it up right...SSDs have really come down in price..
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