With its long history, Opera for Mac stands as one of the most popular Web browsers in the world. Despite its age, this free product has been constantly updated and optimized to run smoothly. Snow Leopard & Web Browsers. Discussion in 'Mac Basics and Help' started by bmac89, Sep 14, 2014.

I have an old Macbook CoreDuo. It's maxed out at 2GB RAM and 10.6.8.

Currently, it's being used by my 6 year old 1st grader and for the most part, it's OK. The problem is when he surfs educational websites which still relies on Flash technology. I have the latest versions of Safari, Chrome and Firefox installed and they all choke/don't work on several websites. None have been able to work on all of the sites the teacher have recommended.

Has anyone had better results for an alternative browser? Needs to work on Flash sites, and preferably have parental lockouts (which I had to disable to use Safari). I have an old Macbook CoreDuo. It's maxed out at 2GB RAM and 10.6.8. Currently, it's being used by my 6 year old 1st grader and for the most part, it's OK.

The problem is when he surfs educational websites which still relies on Flash technology. I have the latest versions of Safari, Chrome and Firefox installed and they all choke/don't work on several websites. None have been able to work on all of the sites the teacher have recommended. Has anyone had better results for an alternative browser?

Needs to work on Flash sites, and preferably have parental lockouts (which I had to disable to use Safari). The main problem with older browsers is that they don't support TLS v1.2 and many HTTPS sites will not work with them. The only browser that I found to support TLS v1.2 on Leopard is. On Snow Leopard there are more browsers, but Safari is not among them. Here is a that support TLS v1.2: Opera 12.16+ (also ), Firefox v27+, Chrome v30+, Safari v7+ (macOS 10.9+), iOS v5+ iPhone/iPad, Internet Explorer v8+.

You can test your browser here: So you may try Opera 12.16 or Chromium based Opera 26. All Opera versions are available at: (see 'desktop' for Chromium based versions or 'mac' folder for Presto based versions) On your machine you may try VirtualBox v4 (or VMWare v2) with Ubuntu or Windows XP. With your 2GB of RAM just avoid Vista and Windows 10 at all cost. You have to limit the Windows to 512MB-768MB of virtual RAM. This combination (VMWare+Windows XP) works almost fine, but you have to limit the number of started apps. Just to update this thread with what I ultimately ended up doing. Instead of messing with browsers and Chromium projects, I said screw it.

Bought a refurbished 2010 MacBook 7,1 from Microcenter (C2D 2.4/2/250). It came with El Capitan installed and to be honest, was very slow. Almost felt like a mistake to buy such an old Mac. So I took the old SSD from the MacBook 1,1 and put that into the MB 7,1. Loaded Mavericks onto it and WOW! Not sure if it's the SSD or the less demanding Mavericks, but whatever it was, it's very fast. Much faster than the MacBook 1,1 on Snow Leopard.

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Aside - before I did a clean install of Mavericks, I booted up the MacBook 7,1 using the Snow Leopard install for the 1,1. It worked fine and Snow Leopard was very snappy on the C2D. Anyways, I'll probably put another $60 to upgrade the RAM to 8GB and upgrade from Mavericks when they stop supporting it. Maybe I'll play around with the MacBook 1,1 when I get some free time.

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