Recommended Software

Snow Leopard Internet Software

• Adium 1.5.10 - "a free instant messaging application for macOS that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more"

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• Adobe Flash Player v22.0.0.209 - Flash Player for web browsers; Mac OS X 10.5 users need v10.3.183.90; you will have to remove the version of Flash Player that comes with CS4 if installed

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• Angry IP Scanner 3.2.3 - fast and friendly network scanner

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• ArcticFox 43.1 - a Firefox-based web browser that may be the most up-to-date; however, there are some C++ related requirements that may make it difficult to get working

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• Bluefish 2.2.4 - web development editor

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• Chromium 38.0.2125.111 - a free and open-source alternative to Google Chrome

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• Discord Lite - a way to login to Discord using older hardware; builds for Mac OS X 10.4+ available

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• FileZilla 3.3.4.1 - a free and open-source FTP (as in "File Transfer Protocol"), FTPS, and SFTP client

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• Firefox 45.9.0 ESR - a free and open-source web browser; security is more up-to-date than 47.0.1

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• Firefox Legacy 52.9.1p1 - a version of Firefox that has pretty much been maintained for as long as it could for Snow Leopard users

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• Git 2.2.1 - "the stupid content tracker"; a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system

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• Google Chrome 38.0.2125.122 - A web browser made by Google; I do not know why anyone would want this, but here is a link just in case

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• InterWeb 60.9.9 - a Firefox (and others)-based web browser still using XUL addons; the zip comes with quite a few that are also compatible with Palemoon v27

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• Jazz Plugin v1.1 - a web browser plugin for playing MIDI files

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• JDownloader 0.9.581 - a Java-based download manager; requires JRE 1.6

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• KisMAC v0.3.3 - a WiFi monitoring/pen-testing tool; somewhat similar to 'aircrack' but with a GUI

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• KompoZer 0.8b3 - a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML/CSS editor

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• Legacy Mac Proxy - a proxy server designed to fix HTTPS problems; or try FrogFind

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• Lynxlet v0.8.1 - a "termlet" for opening files using 'lynx' web browser in Termainl.app; source code inside of app; use "Open with" or drag-and-drop files onto the app

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• MultiMode 5.9.2 - allows you to decode and transmit morse code (CW), RTTY, FAX, SSTV, SITOR-B, NAVTEX, PACKET, ACARS, PSK31, ALE, and many other modes on your Macintosh, without any extra hardware

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• Nvu v1.0 - a WYSIWYG web page editor that uses the Gecko engine

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• Opera 42.0 Build 2393.137 - a web browser with unique features; you may get a security warning while downloading

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• Pale Moon 27.9.4 - a free and open-source web browser based on Firefox that still uses XUL add-ons

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• Safari 5.1.10 - a Webkit-based web browser made by Apple

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• Silverlight v5.1.40620.0 - web browser plugin by Microsoft; at one time, required to play Netflix and so forth; may be useless these days but here it is anyway...

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• SpiderWeb 2.2.5 - similar to InterWeb listed above but looks like the much older version of Firefox

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• TCPBlock v4.2 - use this to block applications from accessing the Internet

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• TenFourFox - a fork of Firefox for Power Macintosh computers running Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard

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• Thunderbird 45.8.0 - a free and open-source E-Mail client; this version includes Lightning calendar

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• Transmission 2.84 - download and share files over BitTorrent

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• Weather Widget - use this to replace the default Dashboard Weather Widget as it stopped working ~2019; this one uses the HERE API; worse case, run 'curl -s wttr.in' in the Terminal

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• Wireshark 2.0.16 - network protocol analyzer

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• Xtreme Download Manager 5 - a download manager