![]() ![]() I don't like to hang around XP online for too long when banking. One of my internet banking websites also no longer works on FF48 - coming up with white pages when clicking on links, although it still works on FF53 running through XP. The Google/Opera family will not load on SL, insisting on a poorer later of OS X before they will install. Other browsers such as Roccat and Arctic Fox are older technology. The latest browser I have found is Firefox 45 ESR, although that has recently started crashing my system, so I had to revert to Firefox 48, which is stable for now. ![]() My problem right now is the warnings coming up from Facebook, iPlayer and possibly YouTube that they will not support my browser any longer. XP has not had any security updates since April 2019, so in a sense it is a little more secure than SL, even though hackers do prefer to do their business through Windows. I also run XP through an old version of Parallels Desktop, which fills a number of OS X's shortcomings - my printer likes XP better XP has a better file management interface, and there are a number of legacy apps that only run on XP. I know all too well that SL has not had security updates for many years. I also turn off my WiFi and router often in an attempt to thwart hackers. I use and keep updated as much antivirus software I can lay my hands on, and take the usual precautions about not clicking on dodgy email links. I never forget or forgive how Google destroyed the Panoramio archive, nor the recent wiping of the Disqus Channels archive. These cannot be turned off, are constantly being updated without my knowledge or consent, take away suddenly functionality I rely on and then install most unwanted bloatware and adware, and rely on the Cloud rather than offline storage, meaning that my data can be held to ransom by some corporation somewhere. I do not like at all the latest snooping backdoors insisted on by State and Commercial interests, which I consider to be even less secure than old operating systems. ![]() The stability and reliability of 10.6.8 is also well understood. Furthermore, the Disk Utility on SL is far superior to anything since. This was dropped on or after Lion in order to make it more like iOS. I use SL on my 2010 Macbook Pro because it has the last Mail interface I can live with - I struggle with remembering things and find scrolling hard to live with - therefore an easily sortable list of emails, with one-per-line listing, allowing many more items per page, is essential. This is probably because Snow Leopard remains the best version of OS X even today, and Apple are determined to bury it and force us all to buy inferior products. The quartz-wm window manager included with the XQuartz distribution uses the Apple Public Source License Version 2.MacRumours in their wisdom will not give a category for discussing Snow Leopard - they only go back to Lion. The X.Org software components’ licenses are discussed on the Please re-install the latest XQuartz X11 release for Leopard after installing a system software update to OS X 10.5.x Leopard.Īn XQuartz installation consists of many individual pieces of software which have various licenses. Because of this, you may experience conflicts after doing a Software Update from Apple. Since the XQuartz X11 package clobbers Apple's X11.app, their software update will clobber the XQuartz X11 package. OS X Software Updates have included some of the work done by the XQuartz project, but for various reasons, Apple cannot ship the latest and greatest version offered by the XQuartz site. ![]() Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7. The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on macOS. ![]()
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