Chrome sends old Macs on permanent Safari: Browser bricks itself Apple fans who still run macOS Mavericks and earlier on their computers won't be able to run Google's Chrome browser any more. Reg readers tell us that their copies of Chrome have automatically updated to a version of the browser that requires macOS 10.10 (aka Yosemite), meaning anyone running 10.9 Mavericks and below can no …
I am still on Mavericks with 8GB RAM and looking forward to an upgrade soon. But I switched to Firefox long, long ago. My observation: (1) Safari uses the most momory efficient in Macs, but some websites don't work properly. (2) FF uses more memory than Safari, but compatibility is much better after v57+. (3) Chrome was great at first, but later became a memory hog and even buggy. Also, they started disliking adblockers (understandably) and kicked them out of Chrome marketplace.
...are they going to use the time they save not supporting Maverick to make sure Chrome works properly on High Sierra then?
It regularly seizes, says "connection interrupted" or otherwise falls over for me.
(Before you ask Vivaldi, Firefox, Pale Moon, Safari are all working fine. And yes, I know Vivaldi is based on Chrome...)
I switched to Safari on my MacBook some time ago after I got pissed off at the main Chrome process (not one of the worker processes) persistently burning lots of CPU time for no good reason. Conveniently, I found a script to reopen current Chrome tabs in Safari, which avoided manually recreating the dozens of tabs over half-a-dozen windows I perpetually have open :-). Only things I really miss are favicons and being able to pin tabs in one window only (not in every window as Safari does).
Toshiba Pentium 4 D - You could fry eggs on it, it ran so hot it could've started a fire.
Around 2002-3 amongst other jobs was working In a small tv studio in the soho warren, the director was also a graphic artist and had a mac laptop where the back was a heatsink with some whizzy power pc core. (Itanium?? pls correct if misremembered)
He`d put it down on a plastic bag from shopping in Oxford St and it laminated itself to it when he was trying animations of logo`s. I went in a break and got an iced lolly and used the wooden stick suitably whittled to scrape the mess off without damage to the shiny shiny precious artifact.
Beer sign because I earned the couple I was bought as reward. A carrier stuck to a mac doesn`t sound like shit to a blanket, but it was far worse.
A shame. My 2006 MacBook still works, even though it's a bit creaky. I hesitate to upgrade past Snow Leopard due to performance. But it works.
It's not like I refuse to upgrade. I just bought an Acer Predator Helios 300 and passed along a nearly new Nitro 5 to my daughter. But I hate to throw working hardware away.
Maybe I can get a couple quid for it on eBay.
This article is not accurate - Chrome only updates itself if you've set that Preference (which I haven't). Chrome still runs on my Mac running Mavericks, and is at v67, though I still get the daily warning that it's no longer supported.
As for Opera, you can download archive versions of it that will run on your OS. Ditto with Firefox. Only Safari and Chrome are the stern taskmasters that don't let you download past versions, so it's as well to keep your own archive of past versions should you ever need them.
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