HELP: I need an earlier version of Safari

TweedleDum · 25 Feb 2010 at 21:06

Hi,

My friend has just bought an old iBook with 10.1.5 on it. It currently has IE as it's default browser with no evidence of Safari being present. Maybe Safari didn't exist at this point? I'm not sure.

Anyway - could you lot suggest the best browser available to me to use on this machine?

Many thanks.

Skully · 25 Feb 2010 at 21:08

I use and have always used Firefox on my macs.

Spyhop · 25 Feb 2010 at 21:10

Forget about finding an alternate browser, format the sucker and get a decent OS on it.

NickK · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:10

10.1 - safari didn't appear until much later. I think you'll need to install 10.4 or 10.5 (if that works on PowerPC macs).

celliott · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:12

http://mac.oldversion.com/ might have something, I've not checked

PardonTheWait · 26 Feb 2010 at 01:17

10.1 is obscenely old. When I was working for a paper locally, I was 19 and we were on 10.2.8 and it was getting on a bit. I'm 26 this year!

Just checked - the OS was superceded in August 2002. It's ancient.

10.5 will work on the mac if it meets the specs, but at the age it is I'm not sure it would. In fact I'm pretty certain it wouldn't.

You got the specs? (quickest way, I believe this is true of 10.1 as well but I haven't seen 10.1 since I was at college, and I've seen a LOT of macs through work!, is apple in top left, about this mac)

FreeStream · 26 Feb 2010 at 09:54

In that kind of timeline your looking at one of the very earliest iBooks, with G3 processors.

10.4 is the latest you can install.

Honestly it's going to be slow and useless.