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Watch Online Videos on OS 9
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ArmorAlley
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I think that you'll need 10.4 and TenFourFox. And for that you'll really want to have at least 512MB RAM and a G3 500MHz processor.
What may be possible is to download the videos from YouTube (which, I suspect, is illegal, btw), convert them into QuickTime files and play them then as a jukebox on your 6500/G3.
What may be possible is to download the videos from YouTube (which, I suspect, is illegal, btw), convert them into QuickTime files and play them then as a jukebox on your 6500/G3.
You won't get the ability to play videos natively or browse youtube and watch videos. This may have worked in 2005, maybe up through 2007 or so, but today I'm betting the site won't even load, and it it does, flash might not work, and if it does, flash 7 certainly won't.
Though, downloading classilla and flash 7 would be my first step for a just-for-grins attempt at making it go like it did ten years ago.
The computational needs of viewing YouTube have long outstripped the capabilities of even machines that were new when it launched.
As a work-around to get some kind of content to view on the machine:
Downloading them with something like 4k Video Downloader (which I use and recommend if you want high quality youtube videos but you have a slow network connection) and then converting them is one option, I believe that there was another tool that could download and convert directly on some old Macs, but the name escapes me at the moment and there's a possibility it has stopped working anyway.
Though, downloading classilla and flash 7 would be my first step for a just-for-grins attempt at making it go like it did ten years ago.
The computational needs of viewing YouTube have long outstripped the capabilities of even machines that were new when it launched.
As a work-around to get some kind of content to view on the machine:
Downloading them with something like 4k Video Downloader (which I use and recommend if you want high quality youtube videos but you have a slow network connection) and then converting them is one option, I believe that there was another tool that could download and convert directly on some old Macs, but the name escapes me at the moment and there's a possibility it has stopped working anyway.
One person, Cameron Kaiser, works on both classilla and tenfourfox.
My understanding is that Cameron's time to work on these two things in addition to a job and whatever other life he has is limited, so he basically chooses to spend most of his time on tenfourfox.
My guess is that this is because tenfourfox needed less effort to become current. I believe he started tenfourfox fairly soon after Firefox 3.6 or so was the last version that ran on PowerPC Macs, whereas he picked up Classilla over a decade after the last time WaMCoM Mozilla had been updated.
At least fifteen years' worth of updates to Classilla need to be done to bring it up to current Firefox standards. I don't think that was ever strictly the goal, and it's possible that where it sits is where Cameron meant it to be.
My understanding is that Cameron's time to work on these two things in addition to a job and whatever other life he has is limited, so he basically chooses to spend most of his time on tenfourfox.
My guess is that this is because tenfourfox needed less effort to become current. I believe he started tenfourfox fairly soon after Firefox 3.6 or so was the last version that ran on PowerPC Macs, whereas he picked up Classilla over a decade after the last time WaMCoM Mozilla had been updated.
At least fifteen years' worth of updates to Classilla need to be done to bring it up to current Firefox standards. I don't think that was ever strictly the goal, and it's possible that where it sits is where Cameron meant it to be.
TheWhiteFalcon
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Classilla will likely see more attention when TFF winds down in a year or two.
