Discord on Snow Leopard

[ipluto]

Hello,
I’m running a Late 08 Macbook (Polycarbonate) with Snow Leopard on it. I’ve tried so many browsers and I can’t find one with discord working perfectly, Chrome hogs RAM and doesn’t load server icons, and all mozilla based browsers are stupidly slow. I downgraded from Lion which I used Firefox Legacy on. Firefox legacy was perfect, discord worked perfectly etc. However I needed Rosetta support. Can you please help me out? I’ve even tried wine, no luck. All help is appreciated.

Cheers,
iPluto
(Owner of retromacreviews)

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Have you tried InterWeb? That seems to be the go-to browser on Snow Leopard, and probably has the best chance of working.

Otherwise you could use Bitlbee, although you might want to install a fresh copy from MacPorts to get an Intel native version. @wicknix, who actually uses Snow Leopard, may be able to help more.

 

[B S Magnet]

Hello,
I’m running a Late 08 Macbook (Polycarbonate) with Snow Leopard on it. I’ve tried so many browsers and I can’t find one with discord working perfectly, Chrome hogs RAM and doesn’t load server icons, and all mozilla based browsers are stupidly slow. I downgraded from Lion which I used Firefox Legacy on. Firefox legacy was perfect, discord worked perfectly etc. However I needed Rosetta support. Can you please help me out? I’ve even tried wine, no luck. All help is appreciated.

Cheers,
iPluto
(Owner of retromacreviews)

Much as @Wowfunhappy said, try out Interweb (based on Firefox 52 ESR code) or TenFourFox for Intel (based on Firefox 45 ESR code, and security-update-maintained). We have a WikiPost with links to these and other browsers for 10.6 and up.

Also, there are some under-the-bonnet optimizations which can be applied to these Mozilla browsers which were originally found to help speed up performance on older PPC hardware. Have a look at @eyoungren ’s TenFourFox optimizations thread and also the FoxPEP enhancements thread.

 

[wicknix]

Otherwise you could use Bitlbee,

Just an FYI, my Leopard build does indeed work flawlessly on Snow Leopard via rosetta. I just tested it. No issues.