Instead I've just been experimenting with a hack of sorts. Why it doesn't ask to import from Firefox (ESR 45), Chromium, Yandex, Opera, Epic, OmniWeb etc., which are all installed on that machine, is beyond me. What's really bizarre is that on another machine of mine AF also asks, besides Safari, to import stuff from Chrome. Preferences, History (that are not that important), Passwords and "Other Data" (such as Search Engines) cannot get imported, apparently. Thanks a lot, but that's only for importing Bookmarks.
#Web browsers for mac os x lion pdf
That being said, you can add PDF support to the browser by installing this extension (Press this link in Arctic Fox 53 comments If you go to a PDF, you'll just get a prompt to download it and you can then read it on your machine with Preview, Adobe Reader etc. UPDATE regarding PDF support: I forgiot to mention that the browser doesn't support reading PDF files by default. Have fun, I hope this post helps all those holding out on old but still great macOS versions. uBlock Origin runs in that browser (press this link in Arctic Fox only):
I have found a browser (Arctic Fox) which still supports OS X 10.6 / 10.7 / 10.8, is frequently updated, and is being supplied with the newest Firefox security updates:Īs the Internet is basically unusable without an adblocker, you're probably going to want one. The same is true for Firefox and Chrome, which stopped support for any macOS version below OS X 10.9 Mavericks long ago. One problem of using an OS X version this old is the browser: The internal Safari wasn't updated in ages, having lots of unpatched security issues. Frequently, people on this sub state that they are still using OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, either because they like these OS versions or because they are stuck with them as their machines didn't get newer macOS versions from Apple.
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