just downloaded & installed 38.6...
...and the browser gets hung up almost as soon as I try to load a web site. And I'm not talking about graphic intensive sites, but sites like facebook or my email. I get the spinning beach ball of death. Too often, I then have to force quit. Tenfourfox has always had this issue to some extent. The problem, however, is much worse with this version.
Is there a way I can download the previous version?
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1 Posted by pasquale.1996 on 30 Jan, 2016 11:21 PM
Hi, which mac do you have? I have a Powermac quicksilver G4 of 1.25 ghz and Gmail and facebook work both fine with the latest version...
2 Posted by Bob Ford on 31 Jan, 2016 10:19 AM
I have a dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 running Mac OS 10.5.8
Tenfourfox (as well as Safari 5.0.6) have both had a tendency to give me the spinning beach ball of death from time to time. So I already tend to avoid really busy sites with lots of videos and flash and so on. And I frequently empty the cache, which seems to help some.
As soon as I loaded this new version (38.6) the spinning beach ball became much more frequent. And it really doesn't matter which web sites I go to.
3 Posted by pasquale.1996 on 31 Jan, 2016 10:55 AM
It is weird that on a much faster mac than mine it is so slow... On Tenfourfox to lighten the browser i disabled the history storing. I keep only my bookmarks, usernames and passwords, maybe this helps. A thing that i noticed is that if I have more than two or three apps opened in addition to Tenfourfox it gives me the hated beach ball, so i tend to surf the web only with pdf opened or utorrent, nothing more.
4 Posted by Bob Ford on 31 Jan, 2016 11:06 AM
I keep history, although I frequently delete it. along with the cache, especially if the browser is running slowly.
I tend to have a lot of applications open -- right now, safari and tenfourfox, along with itunes, caliber, photoshop, pages, preview, textedit, and temperature monitor.
My computer has a Bus Speed of 1 GHz and 3.25 GB in memory, so I wouldn't think that would be a problem.
What do you think?
5 Posted by pasquale.1996 on 31 Jan, 2016 12:12 PM
Well i think that i have another PC, a windows one, with a 2.2 ghz processor and 3 GB of Ram, and on that computer Firefox stucks sometimes, so i believe that the browser itself is very heavy, but despite of that is my favourite browser. Tenfourfox is a port of it, so it has to be as heavy as the original one. For these reasons my only advice is to use fewer apps at a time.
6 Posted by GeeFiver on 06 Feb, 2016 11:17 AM
First off, many many thanks for the continued support of TenFourFox for PPC! I confirm the statements made above regarding the occurrence of considerably more frequent spinning beach ball of death on a Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 1.8 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 900 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.4f0
However, that's not the purpose of this post. Since the most recent update to version # 38.6.0 the close/minimize/maximize buttons appear to have shifted to closer to the uppermost edge of the window (see attachment). Am wondering whether other users can confirm this phenomenon?
Cheers, and keep up the good work!
7 Posted by Bob Ford on 06 Feb, 2016 04:23 PM
No, it isn't like that with my Mac. Placed about normally.
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8 Posted by GeeFiver on 06 Feb, 2016 04:55 PM
All right, Bob.
Any one else, by any chance?
Support Staff 9 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on 06 Feb, 2016 06:21 PM
I can't confirm a higher frequency of the SBOD with 38.6 (PowerBook G4 1.3 GHz, 10.5). I suggest an experiment: Disable all add-ons, restart the browser and see if it's still bad. If it's better, consider reactivating only the add-ons you really need.
Regarding the placement of the traffic light buttons: Click View>Toolbars>Customize… and then make sure the Default Theme is selected (see screenshot). Alternatively you can deactivate the Title bar, then all themes will work correctly. This is a known bug. If the Default theme is already active, please comment, because then we may have a new bug.
Support Staff 10 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 06 Feb, 2016 08:03 PM
I haven't detected a higher frequency of stalls or beachballs on the test systems so far.
11 Posted by GeeFiver on 06 Feb, 2016 08:47 PM
@Chris : Superb, selecting the default theme as instructed by you resolved the issue there was with misplaced traffic lights, as you call them. Many thanks, indeed, for the swift and helpful response. Very much appreciated.
@Chris & @Cameron: Good point; I will experiment with deactivating/reactivating add-ons. Needless to say, the system I am currently using is -- let's face it -- outdated. At any rate, thank you again for your output/input.