Firefox) that is optimized for G3, G5, and two varieties of G4 CPUs. It is a PowerPC specific port of Mozilla (a.k.a. TenFourFox is our standard recommendation for Tiger users.Opera 10.6.3 supports Theora, but does not display H.264 or WebM.

Safari is the Mac’s default browser, and version 4.1.3 is the last supported in Tiger.

Video performance will vary depending on the speed of your internet connection, processor speed, the number of CPUs in your Mac, and your video card. My test machines are a dual 1.25 GHz MDD Power Mac G4 and a dual 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5. I have been testing HTML5 video support on a variety of browsers supported by Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard on PowerPC hardware. Some browsers support all three, some two, some only one, and some old browsers none at all.Įach of these video formats has its pros and cons, with H.264 generally considered the most efficient, but with the drawback that it is not patent- or royalty-free.

patent-free Ogg Theora, promoted by Mozilla and Opera.

H.264/MP4, promoted by Apple and Google, integrated into QuickTime.

There are three different types of video encoding supported by HTML5: That said, HTML5 video isn’t a single thing. Further, HTML5 video is supported on some older hardware and operating systems that Flash no longer supports – PowerPC in particular. HTML5 video doesn’t require additional software, which immediately sets it apart from Flash video. On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, YouTube announced that it had made HTML5 video its default instead of Adobe Flash, which is still be supported.

Adobe flash for os x 10.4.11