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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was released on April 29, 2005, went through 12 revisions, and wasn’t replaced until OS X 10.5 Leopard arrived on October 26, 2007 – two-and-a-half years later (almost 30 months to the day). Many consider Tiger a high point because of the wide range of hardware it supports and its length of time on the market, which we will probably never see matched with Apple moving toward an annual update cycle.
For example, the Mac OS X 10.2.4 Combo Update updates any earlier version of Mac OS X 10.2 to Mac OS X 10.2.4 using a single installer, as opposed to installing the individual Mac OS X 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, and 10.2.4 updates. Standalone Updates are generally available 24 to 48 hours after the Update is available through Software Update. Mac OS X Tiger (version 10.4) is the fifth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers. Tiger was released to the public on April 29, 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.Some of the new features included a fast searching system called Spotlight, a new version of the Safari web browser, Dashboard, a new 'Unified' theme,.
Apple’s official hardware requirements for Tiger are a G3 CPU, 256 MB of system memory, 3 GB of available hard drive space, an optical drive that supports DVDs, and a built-in FireWire port, although it can be run on the 350 MHz iMac, which does not have FireWire. We strongly recommend more than 256 MB of memory – at least 512 MB if your Mac supports it.
Tiger would become the first version of OS X to support Intel Macs when they began to ship in January 2006. The PowerPC and Intel versions of Tiger were maintained in parallel, and you can’t boot a Mac from a version of Tiger made for the other hardware architecture.
It is possible to install Tiger on Macs without DVD-compatible optical drives. See Installing OS X 10.4 Tiger on DVD-Challenged Macs Using FireWire Target Disk Mode and Using FireWire Target Disk Mode to Install OS X on Macs without DVD Drives for details.
The following Macs were supported in OS X 10.3 but not 10.4: beige Power Mac G3, tray-loading iMacs (which can run it via an unsupported installation), and the Lombard PowerBook G3 (which can also run it via an unsupported installation).
Tiger is immune to the “goto fail” bug discovered in early 2014.
Downloadable Updates for Mac OS X
Standalone Updates let you update to a newer version of Mac OS X from your hard drive instead of using Software Update, which requires an Internet connection. Download the one(s) you need and install them after mounting the disk image and launching the Installer program.
There are two types of Standalone Updates: Individual (or Delta) and Combo.
- Individual Updates update one version of Mac OS X to the next version. For example, the Mac OS X 10.2.4 Update updates Mac OS X 10.2.3 to version 10.2.4. Individual Updates are also known as Delta Updates.
- Combo Updates update the base version of a Mac OS X release to the version specified in the Combo Update, including all intermediate updates. For example, the Mac OS X 10.2.4 Combo Update updates any earlier version of Mac OS X 10.2 to Mac OS X 10.2.4 using a single installer, as opposed to installing the individual Mac OS X 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, and 10.2.4 updates.
Standalone Updates are generally available 24 to 48 hours after the Update is available through Software Update.
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If you burn a Standalone Update to CD, its disk image must be copied to your desktop or another location on your Mac OS X startup disk in order to be installed.
About the Standalone Update tables
To access the page from which you download a Standalone Update, click the link in the Update column corresponding to the desired Update.
To review detailed information about the changes to Mac OS X included in a specific Update, click the link in the Description column corresponding to the desired Update. This will open the corresponding “About this Update” document. Note that not all Standalone Updates have a corresponding “About this Update” document. In such cases, the information about the changes incorporated in the Update is provided in the page from which the Update is downloaded.
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Updates
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iTunes and Mac OS X 10.4
- iTunes 9.1.1 is the last version of iTunes compatible with G3 Macs running Tiger.
- iTunes 9.2.1 is the last version of iTunes compatible with Tiger. It requires a G4 or newer CPU, and it won’t prevent you from installing version 9.2.1 on a G3 Mac.
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The gradual marginalization of PowerPC Macs is bound to accelerate sharply with the release of Intel-only Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and one can anticipate that it may not be too long before PowerPC Mac owners begin to be confronted with the frustrating up-to-date browser issue that is one of the biggest problems for Classic Mac OS holdouts these days.
It’s already happening to some degree. For example, Stainless, a very nice little WebKit-based indie browser somewhat inspired by the Google Chrome browser project – and which I’ve become quite partial to on my Unibody MacBook – only works on Intel Macs.
How long will Apple continue updating Safari 4 for PowerPC Macs? My guess would be that version 4 of Safari will probably be the last version supporting Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard may get one more revision. [Update: Safari 5.0.6 was the last for Leopard.]
If precedent is any guide, the best bet for browser sustainability on Apple’s orphaned OS versions will be the Mozilla Gecko-based browsers. WaMCom and lately Classilla developments of Mozilla for Classic users are a case in point.
How I Work
My browser MO is generally to run one example each of the Safari/WebKit, Mozilla/Gecko, and Opera/Presto browsers simultaneously, which pretty much keeps the bases covered.
On my MacBook, it’s the Opera 10 Turbo RC, of which the final version is slated for release tomorrow; Firefox 3.5.2, and Stainless – the latter both because I like Stainless, especially its cool tiny icon bookmark feature, and because I haven’t yet got around to upgrading the OS to Safari 4’s required Version 10.5.7 or later (I’m at 10.5.6) and may now just wait until I install Snow Leopard.
I’ve installed Leopard 10.5.8 on my 17″ PowerBook and am using Safari 4.0.3 on it, along with Firefox 3.5.2 and Opera 10 Turbo.
On the Pismo, running OS X 10.4.11, it’s a bit of a different story. Ironically, I’m running Safari 4.0.3 on the older machine, and also Opera 10 Turbo, but Firefox has not been a happy camper on the Pismo -with its poky Rage 128 Mobility GPU and 8 MB of VRAM – for some time now, so for the past couple of years my preferred Gecko browser on that ‘Book has been Netscape Navigator 9, which is based on a now-obsolescent version of Firefox 2. It looks and works great, but alas development and support were discontinued over a year ago.
I like to run fairly up-to-date browsers, as you tend to run into compatibility issues with older ones (for example, some pages on Apple’s website don’t render well in Navigator 9 these days) and the old browser doesn’t support session restore, which I find it a pain to live without.
SeaMonkey
One alternative that I’ve been checking out lately is SeaMonkey, the last of the Internet suite browsers, with built-in email and newsgroup clients, an IRC chat application, and a WYSIWYG HTML page composer – essentially an updated, refined, security-patched iteration of the old Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape Communicator. The currently available SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta is thoroughly modern under the hood, using the browser core and web feature support from Firefox 3.5.1, including all security fixes, audio/video, downloadable fonts, and JIT-compiled JavaScript.
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It’s also received some overdue and much welcome interface tweaks, with an updated, brighter, more contemporary, and IMHO more attractive look, although there are still some antiquated touches such as a tab close button on the far right of the tab bar rather than having one more conveniently placed on each tab.
Its download manager is completely reworked, including (hooray!) support for cross-session resumable downloads, plus there are new-tab and new-window command line options and fully customizable toolbars. With SeaMonkey 2, everything I need is there: tabbed browsing and a real progress bar and (hooray again) session restores are now supported.
System requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 and later
- Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
The non-browser elements of SeaMonkey don’t really interest to me, so I’ve tended to overlook the program in recent years, but it does offer a thoroughly modern browser core with all the web feature support from Firefox 3.5.1 in a package that works reasonably well on the old Pismo under Tiger, although I do find that after a week or so of uptime it tends to slow down and start dipping into virtual memory to a more painful degree than does Navigator 9.
Camino
That sent me checking out the latest version of Camino (1.6.9), the Mac-only Cocoa interface browser that also uses Mozilla.org’s Gecko engine. Camino is a browser that I’ve tried hard to like, but I kept getting dragged back to Navigator 9 on the Pismo because the latter just works so well, and to Firefox on the newer machines (especially the Shiretoko Intel-optimized build on the MacBook), because I’m addicted to a few Firefox plugins, such as WeatherBug and some of the alternate interface skins, including one that makes it look like Navigator 9.
However, Camino is a better performer than Firefox on the memory-challenged Pismo, but a major shortcoming is that it’s cranky about answering clicks on its interface windows to bring it forward, especially when coming from Classic Mode applications. This issue does not afflict either Navigator 9 or SeaMonkey 2.
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Last week I downloaded Camino 1.6.9, and while it’s early days yet, I provisionally can report that these the issues seem to have been improved to a considerable degree in this release, so if that holds up through several days of uptime, Camino’s happy qualities of being significantly quicker loading pages, and support for session restores may finally have won me over. It certainly is an attractive looking browser and is the only Gecko based browser that supports OS X Services. (You can download versions of Camino 1.6.9 optimized for G4 and G5.)
Other recent Camino refinements:
- Toolbar Search Improvements
Camino 1.6 now includes an editor that allows deleting, renaming, and reordering search engines. Camino also supports OpenSearch search engine plug-ins. New search engines can be added to the toolbar’s search field by automatic discovery or by web pages that provide links to OpenSearch plug-ins. - Streamlined Find Interface
Camino 1.6 removes the Find panel and replaces it with a simple, unobtrusive Find toolbar that appears near the bottom of the browser window. With back and forward buttons at your fingertips and incremental find, the Find toolbar makes finding words on a page easier than ever. - Tabbed Browsing Improvements
Camino 1.6 includes a scrolling tab bar. When more tabs are open than can be displayed in the tab bar, arrows appear at the right and left edges to allow scrolling the bar. As part of this change, the tab overflow menu has been replaced by a menu displaying all open tabs in the current window. - Software Update
Updating to the latest version of Camino is even easier than ever with Camino’s new auto-update feature. Integrating with the “Sparkle” framework, Camino now automatically checks for new releases and optionally installs them. - AppleScript Support
Camino now includes enhanced AppleScript support. AppleScripts can now refer to individual tabs and windows, add, open, and delete bookmarks, and even have custom toolbar icons. - Keychain Support
In addition to saving logins and passwords in the Mac OS X Keychain, Camino 1.6 can now store information for multiple accounts in the Keychain. Camino also maintains computability with Safari Keychain entries, allowing easier switching between web browsers. - Feed Detection
Camino supports the detection of RSS/Atom feeds in web pages. When a feed is found, an icon appears in the location bar. Clicking that icon and selecting a feed will send the feed to your default Mac OS X feed reader. New in Camino 1.6 is the ability to pass feeds to certain web-based feed readers including Google Reader, Bloglines, and My Yahoo. - Spell-checking
Camino includes the built-in Mac OS X spell-checker on every text field. Unlike Firefox, this spell-checker is the same one used throughout Mac OS X. You don’t have to worry about making spelling mistakes when writing for your blog, leaving comments, or posting on forums. New in Camino 1.6: For users of Mac OS X 10.5, you can change the active spelling language. - Session Saving
Camino includes support for “session saving”, or optionally remembering what pages you were visiting when you quit and automatically loading them the next time you start – perfect for all those times you have to install Mac OS X updates. This is a must-have feature for me.
Camino includes an elegant built-in popup blocker as well as built-in adblocking and gives you the option to show the popup, whitelist the site, or never get prompted again. Additionally, Camino includes the ability to keep Flash animation from loading until you’re ready (Flashblock) as well as the ability to disable Java.
Camino 1.6.9, released August 26, is described by the developers as a security and stability update for Camino 1.6.x.
Camino 1.6.9 contains the following improvements over version 1.6.8:
- Upgraded to version 1.8.1.23 of the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which includes several critical security and stability fixes.
- Upgraded the “Block flash animations” code t
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
- Camino 1.6 is a universal binary and runs natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
Editor’s note: Camino 2.0 has reached Beta 3, and I’ve found it to be remarkably stable after months of using the various betas. At Low End Mac headquarters, it’s our default browser, with Firefox 3.6 alpha 2 (the G4-optimized Minefield build) as our main alternative. dk [Update: Camino reached version 2.1.2 before the project was discontinued. Because it is a universal binary, it still runs on OS X 10.9 Mavericks and the 10.10 Yosemite Beta.]
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