One of the issues with obsoleted browsers, are the Security Certificates.
These are seldom updated at the user-end to practical satisfaction, if
the sites themselves do not offer a prompt to upgrade them..
Reset PRAM on your Mac and then try again. To reset PRAM, turn off your Mac and then turn it on and immediately press and hold the Option, Command, P, and R keys together for about 20 seconds. It is possible that your Mac may unable to reach the update server. There could be two reasons for this: You may have a slow internet connection. Directed by J.A. With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast. The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. OS X El Capitan (10.11) on Unsupported Macs macOS Extractor and MacPostFactor are apps that guide you through patching and installing OS X El Capitan (10.11), Yosemite (10.10), Mavericks (10.9), or Mountain Lion (10.8) on your older Mac. This thread focuses on OS X El Capitan. MacPostFactor works for Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, and El.
Examples of this issue are online, I've had difficulties with older browsers
in newer hardware than your model & older Mac OS.. See:
Your computer may be able to run a later Mac OS, depending on hardware
Download New Mac Os
and some of those later Mac OS version installers on disc media are rare.
If your old iBook has CD-only optical drive, the upgrade to Tiger 10.4 on
CD (a 4-CD installer from Apple) is extremely rare; and external FireWire
optical drives could be used if the rest of an older Mac can support later
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OS X versions. (Limits include processor speed, memory, & storage.)
If you get and use the TenFourFox browser, that should be good to go
for web-based email with an older PowerPC Mac running the last
hardware-supported OS X versions 10.4.11 and 10.5.8.
TenFourFox:
Not sure if your iBook model is a G3 or G4, or of what hardware specs.
There are limits given hardware, to what software may be used in those.
If the computer is running pre-OS X, Mac 9.0~9.2.2 OS systems, not
sure if Classilla browser* will work or not. GMail has changed their spec
for supporting browsers. ~ Even so, you should be careful to not send
vital personal info online via email, be it with old unsupported browser
or newer supported one. Gmail has set a standard to obsolete older
browsers & push people to buy into upgrades of hardware & software.
*IF your old iBook is running a pre-OS X version Mac OS 9.0~9.2.2 see:
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I've a few older Macs, one still running Tiger 10.4.11 and two 10.5.8.
These can use TenFourFox, and really need to have extra RAM plus
spare hard drive capacity so Virtual Memory can be used, to run it.
Other names that are obsoleted, in browsers, are not supported by
Google's Gmail; some fairly recent by comparison, fail to render.
In any event..
Good luck & happy trails! ?
Dec 8, 2016 12:19 AM