Questions about the use of Firefox & Adobe on a PowerPC

[HawaiianBreeze]

I have a Mac OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC

I recently received a notification that Adobe Flash Player needed to be updated when I tried to update it I was unable to because I was using a PowerPC. I was told that I should disable it if I was unable to update it which I did.

While I was on the Mozilla website a notification appeared saying that I needed to update Firefox. I was told that Firefox 3.6 was no longer receiving updates and that version is the last one that works with PowerPCs. Mozilla's site gave PowerPC owners two options 1. switch to a Mac with an Intel processor or 2. use the TenFourFox browser (which I'm currently using).

My questions are:

Will I be at serious risk if I continue to use Adobe or Firefox on my PowerPC?

If so are there any alternatives to Adobe that I could use to watch videos on YouTube? And are there any web browsers that still support PowerPCs that also allow the ability to watch videos online?

[Buzz]

"Serious risk" ??? Of what? No there's no risk of anything.

But you will find you can't access some web content and as the months go by what you can access will steadily diminish.

The PPC architecture died about 8 years ago and developers are continually dropping support for it.

You're honest, best, option is to start saving for a new Mac if at all possible. Even a model several years old which is a Core 2 Duo intel processor is better than any PPC machine. (You do NOT want an Intel Core Duo processor - you want Core 2 Duo or better) You can pick up older Mac Minis or iMacs for less than $500 quite often.

[HawaiianBreeze]

Thanks for the quick response and info. I'm not much of a computer expert, so when I saw that warning I just assumed the worst. I'm glad to hear there's nothing to worry about. Thanks for the info on which Mac to get they're much cheaper than I was expecting and I'll definitely look into getting a newer one.