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Ok - as someone recently purchased a late 2006 iMac that only upgrades to 10.7 Lion with the intention of using it as my daily driver (yes, really, and it works like a charm), I feel I am very qualified to answer this question.

I find the website Cross Browser Testing really useful. It give a matrix of operating systems and browsers and you can see which ones are supported. For example you can click on 10.7 under the Mac OS X heading and then choose Safari in the browsers section and see that Safari 6 is the only version supported.
Safari 10 7 5 free download - Realtek High Definition Audio Codec (Windows 7 / 8/ 8.1/ 10 64-bit), Realtek High Definition Audio Codec (Windows 7 / 8/ 8.1/ 10 32-bit), Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.

I placed the Release build in a DMG file to give it an easy installer. (Can Click Image to Download Installer as well).

So Chromium is the best browser, in my opinion. ¬¨‚Ä†Let me just say I have been a major fan of Mozilla/Firefox for over a decade and it has only been really the last 12-15 months that I have fully come to appreciate how fast and far the Chormium project has evolved. ¬¨‚Ä†Mozilla/Firefox’s rapid release schedule has unfortunately turned out to be quite annoying and almost¬¨‚Ä†disastrous¬¨‚Ä†with new browsers being released every six weeks or so. ¬¨‚Ä†Usually this pace of release is a good thing but in Mozilla’s case it has been frustrating as some versions work well, others have no really new features (Firefox 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10? ¬¨‚Ä†all seemed the same, still buggy).

Chrome is google’s slightly modified release verision of the open source project Chromium (financed by Google). ¬¨‚Ä†The difference is minimal but for a school district there are a couple of slight advantages. ¬¨‚Ä†Chromium does not track as many user metrics, not does it seem to open quite the same number of UDP connections as Chrome. ¬¨‚Ä† In a filtered setting its nice to have a customized browser, that doesn’t track (as many) user metrics as this information is really just wasted traffic. ¬¨‚Ä†Chrome also adds in a PDF plugin as well as built in flash plugin where as Chromium leaves these out, ¬¨‚Ä†again this is okay and actually preferred since we already have flash and a PDF view installed on all Macs. ¬¨‚Ä†I will include this chromium build and future builds on our Lab images at the HS and MS, also changed the logo a bit to give it a Geneseo feel.

I compiled Chromium from source on an MacBook Air i5. ¬¨‚Ä†I compiled on 10.7 Lion but used set the build option to 10.6 for better¬¨‚Ä†compatibility. ¬¨‚Ä†To be able to compile on OS X Lion works but there are a few more steps then other Mac platforms. ¬¨‚Ä†I compiled the project in terminal with the following commands.

First get the source using SVN and then sync with gclient. ¬¨‚Ä†The source code is currently quite large and the download will be between 1.2 and 1.6 gigs.

Most of the directions of chromium’s site will work but I have added below the two that were necessary to get to build on OS X Lion. ¬¨‚Ä†I would also make sure you have XCode installed prior to compiling.

Changing the Color of a OneNote Notebook I'm using OneNote on Mac and wanted to change the color of a few of my notebooks. I can easily change page color/section color; but can't find a way to change the notebook icon's color once it is setup. Change color of notebooks in onenote. In OneNote for Mac, you can change the color of any section tab in your notebook — either for aesthetic purposes or to visually categorize your notebook content in OneNote in the same way you might differentiate the sections of a traditional paper notebook. Notebook sections. Change the color of a notebook section tab. Do the following. Change the Displayed name. Change the Color. Change the Location. Click the File tab on the menu bar. On the backstage view, click Info on the left pane. Change the color of a notebook Tap the Show Notebooks button until you see the notebook list. Press and hold the notebook to select it. A checkmark will appear next to the notebook when it is selected.

Hi Suanne, one thing about Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion is that it runs only software that was written for Macs using Intel processors. It looks like Illustrator 10.3 came out in 2001, which means it was written before Macs with Intel processors came out. Adobe illustrator for 10.7.5.

Use the following command to set the build correctly for mac. I was only able to build setting Mac_sdk to 10.6.

GYP_GENERATORS=make GYP_DEFINES=mac_sdk=10.6 ./build/gyp_chromium

To finally initiate and build from the source I set the BUILDTYPE to release, and used the -j4 flag to use 3 cores (can use -j5 if you want to use all 4 cores of a i5 to speed up compiling time.)

make BUILDTYPE=Release chrome -j4

Compiling took well over one hour.

(Successful Build)

Best Browser 10.7.5