Is it possible to improve a G4 ibook on Tiger 10.4.11?

I have had my ibook for years and has been great but has become slow and difficult to use. (OSX 10.4.11, 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, 1GB DDR SDRAM)
Software will not update anymore and Firefox browser in particular is now out of date and causing issues with gmail etc.
I could update to OSX 10.5, but the disks on ebay are not cheap - would this upgrade even improve things at all? or is here really no point?
I do lots of image editing and it struggles with the files sizes now too. Would it help to transfer most files off the harddisks to free up hard disk memory.
The ram is apparently 1GB.
I really don't have the money for a new Mac and would love to keep this going a bit longer. ANY help with improving its performance would be much appreciated!
Thanks

You may need to start a thread of you own and include the technical information about your iBook G4 such as the build year, hardware specifications, total capacity of the iBook's internal hard disk drive, installed RAM total, and if you know it, the available free-space remaining in the hard disk drive. Disk Utility could help, as could Activity Monitor, for finding information on the system hardware details.
If the computer has all the RAM it can use (according to MacTracker.ca or other spec source) and a large enough capacity of unused free space in the hard disk drive, it could be capable of running Leopard 10.5.8; but you would have to get a retail install disc through Apple online or by phone through Support since it probably is not available in their store. A call to the main Apple support may be worth a try should you want to upgrade the OSX to 10.5.8 if the computer you have is able to adequately run this version.
Interest in these older notebook portable and pre-Intel based Macs has slowed, so replies may be long in arriving. Other forums have disappeared over the past five to eight years, too; those had good exposure.
Hopefully this helps somewhat.
Good luck & happy computing!

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