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Sometime in 2012, Adobe Flash asked me to update it. I tried, but it didn't work because my browsers (firefox and chrome) didn't support the newest flash. I tried to update my browsers, but neither firefox nor chrome supports mac os 10.5.8 anymore. Safari keeps telling me to update flash too. I know that using an older version of flash can be a security hazard, so I really want to update.
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My question: Are there any browsers (perhaps a firefox variant) I can use more safely now than the browsers that shipped with 10.5.8? For the impatient: You have two possibilities:. PowerPC-based Mac: and no Flash. Intel-based Mac: (thanks to for this one!) with (beware, Flash 10.3 is an archived version and is ). Long version:.
If you use an Intel processor you can use: Opera 12 OS X Leopard (10.5), or greater: 32-bit and 64-bit Intel systems supported Opera supports Flash Player plug-in. If you use a PowerPC processor you may want to try. TenFourFox seems to be actively developed (version 17.0.3 was released Feb 16 2013). TenFourFox supports add-ons, but not plugins, that is, you can't use Flash at all. Please notice that Flash Player 11. You can still download for 10.5 Intel (beware, Flash 10.3 is an archived version and is ).
As for other browsers:. Firefox processors (PowerBook, PowerMac): Firefox 3.6.28 is the last version of Firefox that works with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on a computer with a PowerPC processor. Is the latest version that supports Leopard on Intel-based Macs as Firefox 17 requires 10.6 or newer. Apple no longer releases Safari updates for Mac OS X 10.5 (as stated ). Chrome, either: Google Chrome on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will stop receiving any updates following Chrome 21. I seem to remember that back in February (when I first answered the question) the article linked listed a Flash Player for Mac OS X 10.5.x.
So I inferred that Adobe supported that Flash version too. However, since it wasn't stated explicitely, I chose the wording 'which seems to be supported by Adobe'. That's clearly no longer the case (extended support for Flash Player 10.3 expired on July 9th, as explained in the link your provided), thanks for pointing it out, I've edited my answer accordingly.
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Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president in charge of Chrome and Apps, said in June that Chrome is 'exceptionally profitable' for the company. Stephen Shankland/CNET Just as, Google said yesterday that its Web browser will stop supporting OS X 10.5, aka Leopard. After a long gestation period. Apple's OS updates arrive more frequently these days - roughly annually - and Chrome comes even more frequently with a six-week update cycle. 'Please note, on Mac we now require 10.6 or higher, and this release will not be available if you are on 10.5 or lower,' said Chrome team member Jason Kersey in a about Chrome 22, which just entered testing on the developer channel. That version should become the mainstream, stable version of Chrome in about three months. For Google, driving search traffic and thereby generating ad revenue for the company.
It got its start on personal computers, but Google has just alongside the. Opera Software and Mozilla also have been pushing for development and adoption of these interfaces to device hardware. Such tasks typically have been available to programmers before who used Adobe Systems' Flash Player or who wrote native software that use the underlying operating system. The browser developers, though, want Web apps to match what native apps can accomplish. That's important for programmers who want to move beyond the Flash era, but it's essential for Google's Chrome OS and Mozilla's Firefox OS, two projects that use a browser-based operating system that runs only Web apps.