Tiger will run fine on your iMac G3, although online streaming video (Youtube, etc.) will be choppy, especially at 360p or higher; your iMac will be playing catchup with the sound and video. The work around would be to download those videos to an FLV file and then play it back using VLC player. This is just an example. Firefox version 3.6.10 (latest version?) is supported under Tiger.
If you don't want to be sluggish yet have more compatibility with other software, I would highly recommend Panther (10.3). It is less hungry for RAM and resources to run. Firefox version 2.0.0.20 is the last supported under Panther and Jaguar. Or you could just use Safari.
You can install OSX to an external Fire-wire hard drive, but you'll need to remember that the iMac, by default, will boot from the internal drive first. You'll need to invoke the boot menu (hold down Option key at power up) every time you want to boot into OSX or you'll need to go into System Preferences (or Startup Control Panel under OS 9.x.x) and select the OSX hard drive to always boot to OSX.
Oh, and don't forget to check that Carbon Lib v1.4 or 1.6 along with Firmware 4.1.9f4 are installed before installing OSX.
73s de Phreakout. :rambo:
If you don't want to be sluggish yet have more compatibility with other software, I would highly recommend Panther (10.3). It is less hungry for RAM and resources to run. Firefox version 2.0.0.20 is the last supported under Panther and Jaguar. Or you could just use Safari.
You can install OSX to an external Fire-wire hard drive, but you'll need to remember that the iMac, by default, will boot from the internal drive first. You'll need to invoke the boot menu (hold down Option key at power up) every time you want to boot into OSX or you'll need to go into System Preferences (or Startup Control Panel under OS 9.x.x) and select the OSX hard drive to always boot to OSX.
Oh, and don't forget to check that Carbon Lib v1.4 or 1.6 along with Firmware 4.1.9f4 are installed before installing OSX.
73s de Phreakout. :rambo: