Leopard Webkit on Snow Leopard

[amagichnich]

I know, not PPC and it has been asked before but never answered.

Apparently the LWK tweaks don't seem to work on SL's "current" version 5.1.10 of Safari.
Does anyone know why LWK works on 10.5 (and partly Tiger) but not on 10.6?

I known for current browsers there is ArcticFox and combined with FoxPEP it makes my early 2009 Mini fly high and fast. But there is something sexy about Safari...

 

[CooperBox]

I know, not PPC and it has been asked before but never answered.

Apparently the LWK tweaks don't seem to work on SL's "current" version 5.1.10 of Safari.
Does anyone know why LWK works on 10.5 (and partly Tiger) but not on 10.6?

I known for current browsers there is ArcticFox and combined with FoxPEP it makes my early 2009 Mini fly high and fast. But there is something sexy about Safari...

If there's anything 'sexy' about Safari, I'll start fancying my mother-in-law......!! (Shudder the thought).
But seriously, I've never really liked Safari, and not used it for years, much preferring Firefox or another alternative on Intel Macs.
I'll leave others more educated than myself to comment on LWK in general, but to my logical mind it works on OS 10.5 'Leopard' by definition, and thus not on 10.6 Snow Leopard.

 

[LAHegarty]

I took a photo of my cat next to them

 

[CooperBox]

I took a photo of my cat next to them
View attachment 921772

No red eyes or hopefully forked tail either. Unlike my m-i-l.😈

 

[eyoungren]

If there's anything 'sexy' about Safari, I'll start fancying my mother-in-law......!! (Shudder the thought).
But seriously, I've never really liked Safari, and not used it for years, much preferring Firefox or another alternative on Intel Macs.
I'll leave others more educated than myself to comment on LWK in general, but to my logical mind it works on OS 10.5 'Leopard' by definition, and thus not on 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Agree.

I have hated and continue to hate Safari on any platform it runs on. For me, it's always been slow, hesitant to load sites, stalls often, never completes loading, cannot be customized beyond a few addons and in later versions of iOS imposes it's own will upon the user. Apple took to hiding the address bar with the website name only in later versions and it's still got that awful metal look.

I hide it in a folder on my iOS devices and use an entirely different browser. It collects dust on my Macs unless I am forced to use it for some reason. Always been garbage to me although it's interesting that the one website it seems to be able to open consistently well is apple.com.

 

[amagichnich]

If there's anything 'sexy' about Safari, I'll start fancying my mother-in-law......!! (Shudder the thought).
But seriously, I've never really liked Safari, and not used it for years, much preferring Firefox or another alternative on Intel Macs.

Not the answer I expected, quite funny though

Compared to Safari, Firefox has a messy touch to it (may apply to your m-i-l. too ):

That's what I mean by "sexy".

but to my logical mind it works on OS 10.5 'Leopard' by definition, and thus not on 10.6 Snow Leopard.

right, when using the precompiled webkit.app

But, using the scripts shouldn't be any problem as they simply copy things.
For example "update system certificates":

sudo ditto "$CURDIR/WebKit.app/Contents/Resources/Keychains" /System/Library/Keychains
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Keychains

That should work regardless of the OS you're running it on.

Or "enable advanced features":
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitFullScreenEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitAcceleratedCompositingEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitAccelerated2dCanvasEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitAcceleratedDrawingEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitCanvasUsesAcceleratedDrawing -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebGLEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitWebAudioEnabled -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitLargeAnimatedImageFrameCachingEnabledPreferenceKey -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHiddenPageDOMTimerThrottlingEnabledPreferenceKey -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHiddenPageCSSAnimationSuspensionEnabledPreferenceKey -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent -string "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/604.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.3 Safari/604.5.6"

Should work as well, but does nothing. The changes are written into ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist but Safari somehow ignores them:

 

[wicknix]

You can always apply the xmoon theme to give AF that safari look.

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

Version 1.8.0 that works with AF here :

Pale Moon Add-ons - XMoon - Releases

addons.palemoon.org

Then in the browsers "customize" options, choose "use small icons".

Or... try SpiderWeb for that nostalgic seamonkey look and feel.

Cheers

 

[amagichnich]

Okay, now it looks like a weird old Firefox, but a lot than default, thx @wicknix


Haven't made any progress on the Safari side though. I tried to backport plist changes, keychains and certs from a patched 10.5 install to 10.6 but it doesen't change anything.

 

[im_to_hyper]

Okay, now it looks like a weird old Firefox, but a lot than default, thx @wicknix
View attachment 923204

Haven't made any progress on the Safari side though. I tried to backport plist changes, keychains and certs from a patched 10.5 install to 10.6 but it doesen't change anything.

WHOA! How did you get Office 2016 onto Snow Leopard? I've only been able to use 2011 at the highest!

 

[Amethyst1]

WHOA! How did you get Office 2016 onto Snow Leopard? I've only been able to use 2011 at the highest!

Possibly custom icons for Office 2011 or FoxBoxes to e.g. Office Online. Office 2016 requires Yosemite; attempts to run it on Mavericks have not been successful.

@amagichnich - If I'm wrong I apologise profusely.

 

[im_to_hyper]

Possibly custom icons for Office 2011 or FoxBoxes to e.g. Office Online. Office 2016 requires Yosemite; attempts to run it on Mavericks have not been successful.

@amagichnich - If I'm wrong I apologise profusely.

Oh yeah, Mavericks. I forgot that existed too at one point 😂

 

[barracuda156]

I know, not PPC and it has been asked before but never answered.

Apparently the LWK tweaks don't seem to work on SL's "current" version 5.1.10 of Safari.
Does anyone know why LWK works on 10.5 (and partly Tiger) but not on 10.6?

I known for current browsers there is ArcticFox and combined with FoxPEP it makes my early 2009 Mini fly high and fast. But there is something sexy about Safari...

Also looking for solution. At the moment WebKit that works on 10.5 PPC does not launch in 10.6 PPC.

 

[ChrisCharman]

@barracuda156

@vddrnnr made some steps in this direction here, here and here followed by some input from @internetzel (Tobias the creator of LWK) here.

 

[amagichnich]

Possibly custom icons for Office 2011 or FoxBoxes to e.g. Office Online. Office 2016 requires Yosemite; attempts to run it on Mavericks have not been successful.

@amagichnich - If I'm wrong I apologise profusely.

Absolutely correct - Office'16 icons I use for all my '08 and '11 installations

 

[amagichnich]

@barracuda156

@vddrnnr made some steps in this direction here, here and here followed by some input from @internetzel (Tobias the creator of LWK) here.

Definitely have to take a look at these! Thx

 

[barracuda156]

@barracuda156

@vddrnnr made some steps in this direction here, here and here followed by some input from @internetzel (Tobias the creator of LWK) here.

I somehow missed your reply earlier. Thanks, I will check that now. I would love to have WebKit running instead of TFF.