Browsers running very slowly on G5 Power Mac

I have a G5 PowerMac MDD tower with 6MB RAM running Mac OS 10.4.11 (I cannot move up to 10.5 or 10.6 because of my need to use legacy software that requires the Classic environment). I also have a MacBook Air (MBA) running 10.6.4. The G5 is connected to my home Ethernet network by Cat5 Ethernet cable, the MBA via Airport. Recently my G5 has slowed down tremendously when accessing the internet using both Safari and Firefox (even with all other applications closed), while my MBA browses very fast (I have a fast broadband connection). Both computers go through the same router to access the Internet.
I have tried restarting the G5, throwing out the existing versions of Safari and Firefox and downloading the latest versions, but the G5's access to the Web remains painfully slow. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I think you should get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, Reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
At least if it doesn't fix it, it'll eliminate a few questions.
Then try putting these numbers in Network>TCP/IP>DNS Servers for the Interface you're using...
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Then Apply. These are safer/faster than most ISP's DNS numbers, and have been patched against DNS poisoning.
https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/device/apple-osx-tiger

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Gavin,
Well, the 667 Mhz is the bus speed, not the processor speed (sorry abt that, turned the figures around). It is actually a 2GHz processor speed. It is my old home-Mac, was the very first Intel iMac model that was released, but soon to be exchanged for something better (just waiting for next model from Apple - I happen to like iMacs but want more RAM).
But it is not the only one I have access to. What it produces is no worse quality wise than something produced on a more powerful Mac.
It has no problem running CS4 Premium in any of the apps as it does have a large harddisk and 2 external ones. It is both faster and more stable than the Mac Pros and the G5s (which are in the process of beeing thrown out) in the office running Tiger and CS2-CS3. I also personally run all CS4 apps on a MacBook Alu in Leopard 10.5.6. (with extra 24" display when in the office). Runs just fine.
With my limited RAM on the iMac I avoid switching back and forth between PS, AI and ID but it is no problem to have them all open at the same time as OSX memory management actually can take that and if you have an external drive (or two) for scratch even that works quite well. And I restrict the number of active fonts to only those I really use.
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Clean install everything new, everything updated and we're getting spinning wheel and lag on a document that older computers with a fraction of this power aren't having a problem with at all. (These problems persist with other documents of various sizes and complexity.)
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Tracy, all your replies to go the same place. No real point in 4 replies, just post one with all the info -- we all see them.
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Well, there was a smiley-face for a reason. While I would be lying if I said there was never a bug or a problem from having too much RAM, such problems are extremely rare in modern systems, and you should look pretty much everywhere else for the cause, first. For one thing, your not-the-right-item process listing shows:
PID Process Name User CPU Real Mem Virtual Mem
1256 InDesign TheBeast 2.3 1.34 GB 2.33 GB
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Repairing permissions isn't going to help. If you were having any disk based problem you would want to repair the hard drive, not permissions.
Try a couple of things:
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Problem description:
Battery is draining rapidly since upgrading to OS X Yosemite. Prior to the upgrade, Mac had been making a grinding noise and running very slowly.
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated February 17, 2015 at 7:27:33 PM EST
Download EtreCheck from http://etresoft.com/etrecheck
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.53GHz, Mid 2009) (Verified)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,4
    1 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
    4 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Check Battery - Cycle count 471
Video Information: ℹ️
    NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
        Color LCD 1440 x 900
System Software: ℹ️
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        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 249.20 GB (23.81 GB free)
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Hello All,
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ANY advise and feedback appreciated (y)
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Problem description:
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        BANK 1/DIMM0
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        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
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    Auto backup: YES
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        17%    mds_stores
        10%    WindowServer
         2%    Safari
         1%    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(2)
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    213 MB    com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(2)
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    57 MB    mdworker(8)
    57 MB    Safari
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I am having trouble with my Mac Book Pro which I bought in August 2012. It has suddenly started running very slowly every time I try to poen something. I have completed an etrecheck report - can anyone help?
Thank you
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
          1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
          4 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: 384 MB
System Software:
          Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63b) - Uptime: 0 days 0:21:48
Disk Information:
          TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
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User Internet Plug-ins:
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3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Flash Player Support
          Flip4Mac WMV Support
          MyBusinessWorks Support
Time Machine:
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               3%          WindowServer
               2%          MyBusinessWorksBackup
               1%          PluginProcess
               1%          mdworker
               0%          Microsoft PowerPoint
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          197 MB          Safari
          152 MB          WebProcess
          131 MB          Finder
          131 MB          mds
          94 MB          MyBusinessWorksBackup
Virtual Memory Information:
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          1.34 GB          Active RAM
          343 MB          Inactive RAM
          670 MB          Wired RAM
          327 MB          Page-ins
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Hi Apple Community,
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Problem description:
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EtreCheck version: 2.1.5 (108)
Report generated December 27, 2014 at 10:50:02 PM PST
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
iMac (20-inch, Early 2009) (Verified)
iMac - model: iMac9,1
1 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
2 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
1 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
1 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
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Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
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NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
iMac 1680 x 1050
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Disk Information: ℹ️
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EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 319.21 GB (170.11 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTS08
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. Keyboard Hub
Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse
Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard
Seagate BUP Slim SL 2 TB
EFI (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
SEAGATE (disk1s2) /Volumes/SEAGATE : 2.00 TB (1.12 TB free)
Western Digital Ext HDD 1021 1 TB
EFI (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
time machine backup (disk2s2) /Volumes/time machine backup : 999.86 GB (34.33 GB free)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
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/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton Personal Firewall
[not loaded] com.symantec.driver.NPF (3.0.3) [Support]
/System/Library/Extensions
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[not loaded] com.microsoft.driver.MicrosoftMouse (5.1) [Support]
[loaded] com.seagate.driver.PowSecDriverCore (5.2.6 - SDK 10.4) [Support]
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[running] com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist [Support]
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HP Scheduler Application (/Library/Application Support/Hewlett-Packard/Software Update/HP Scheduler.app)
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FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
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Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.235 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
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JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
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Picasa: Version: 1.0 [Support]
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BrowserPlus [Support]
Flash Player [Support]
Microsoft Keyboard
Microsoft Mouse
Seagate Dashboard for Mac OSX [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Skip System Files: NO
Auto backup: YES
Volumes being backed up:
SEAGATE: Disk size: 2.00 TB Disk used: 877.11 GB
Destinations:
Time Machine Backups [Local]
Total size: 999.86 GB
Total number of backups: 1
Oldest backup: 2014-12-16 04:25:50 +0000
Last backup: 2014-12-16 04:25:50 +0000
Size of backup disk: Too small
Backup size 999.86 GB < (Disk used 877.11 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      7% backupd
      4% mdworker
      4% WindowServer
      0% AppleSpell
      0% ps
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
165 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
79 MB Safari
79 MB Seagate Dashboard
75 MB Finder
54 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
45 MB Free RAM
599 MB Active RAM
554 MB Inactive RAM
325 MB Wired RAM
571 MB Page-ins
4 MB Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
Dec 27, 2014, 10:29:53 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-27-22295 3_[redacted].crash
Dec 27, 2014, 10:21:42 PM Self test - passed
Dec 27, 2014, 02:53:47 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-27-14534 7_[redacted].crash
Dec 27, 2014, 07:26:05 AM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-27-07260 5_[redacted].crash
Dec 26, 2014, 07:21:40 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-26-19214 0_[redacted].crash
Dec 26, 2014, 01:17:03 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-26-13170 3_[redacted].crash
Dec 25, 2014, 11:51:40 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-25-23514 0_[redacted].crash
Dec 25, 2014, 09:27:33 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-25-21273 3_[redacted].crash
Dec 25, 2014, 06:48:21 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/iTunes_2014-12-25-184821_[reda cted].crash
Dec 25, 2014, 12:00:24 PM /Users/[redacted]/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ControlCenter_2014-12-25-12002 4_[redacted].crash
So if someone could please explain what this means, or suggest some other ways to find out what is wrong with my Mac, it would be extremely helpful.
Thanks
Morgan

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https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/kb20080427024142EN_En dUserProfile_en_us
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In addition, you need to install more RAM into your iMac.
Your year and model IMac can take a max. total of 8 GBs of RAM.
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