[geeks] Replacement MacBook question

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Sep 8, 2008, at 01:06 , Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:10:11PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> My wife's powerbook (867 MHz PowerPC with a fresh, Apple replaced
> battery and a new keyboard) is showing it's age. She was unable to  
> book
> our daughter's birthday party at Chuck E. CHeese's because her browser
> was too old (Safari for the PowerPC has been capped, AFAIK).
>
> If you are running Tiger on it, then you can run FireFox 3. I'm not
> sure you want to, I'm considering going back to FireFox 2 on my
> B&W G3, and have not upgraded my Windows computers.
>
> It lacks a very useful add-on and I'm sure others have had similar
> problems.

What add-on is that?

I can't go back to Firefox 2, because it leaks memory until it dies on  
my machine.

F3 so far has never done that, which is worth a lot when you depend on  
the browser for local documentation and other things.

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