What did you do to your computer today?

[framling]

I managed to get Kiwix to finally work on OS X 10.5 (PowerPC) even though I don't think they ever had a PowerPC-working build. There are some PowerPC builds around but the components inside the app bundle (contentManager.dylib, xapianAccessor.dylib, zimAccessor.dylib and zimXapianIndexer.dylib) were all build for Intel-only. Therefore, Kiwix did not work.

It does work now after re-building the components and the XUL framework, and I can browse Wikipedia offline from the safety of my iBook G4.

If you enable ZIM indexing, the CPU will surely get gimped for few hours, as seen in my screenshot.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

You can also use Firefox Dynasty, which works with OS X as far back as Mountain Lion.

Anyway, getting the "new" A1286 set up... Did discover that you can't have both a MacOS Extended partition and an APFS partition on the same drive, so going to have to set up an external SSD or hard drive for the currently installed Catalina OS.

If you stick with legacy macos, there are some great still-supported browsers. My favs are Basilisk and Jazzny's Powerfox that was forked from Basilisk. Powerfox focuses on earlier PPC and Intel macos but works just fine on newer old macos like El Cap and Catalina; effectively macos compatibility that mirrors basilisk except Powerfox additionally reaches back to Leopard and Tiger and across architectures from Intel to PowerPC.

I am also a big fan of Wicknix's SeaLion for old macos. He also put together BrassMonkey that has a very nice seamonkey inspired mail suite and other goodies built into it.

There are lots of neat still supported browsers for these old macs & macos