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Re: PowerFox Browser

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Post by ndiddy »

classichasclass wrote: post #19
pndy wrote: post #7

There was a similar project called TenFourFox that was halted in 2022: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfo... Some 12 years ago I had to order a new motherboard and at that time all I had at hand was some old eMac. I'm not sure if it had 512MB or 1GB of ram installed by previous owner but browsing the Internet was tiresome. Still, both that chunky…

(TenFourFox maintainer) Thanks, glad it was helpful to you. There is some TenFourFox code in this respin which is being used to support the widget code, and there is work in progress to forward-port its JIT. I'm not writing that code but I am advising on it as questions come up.

Thanks for keeping TenFourFox going for so long! It let me keep using a G4 iBook as a daily driver until ~2016 when the web got to be too much for it to handle.

Re: PowerFox Browser

#32

Post by classichasclass »

ndiddy wrote: post #31
classichasclass wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(TenFourFox maintainer) Thanks, glad it was helpful to you. There is some TenFourFox code in this respin which is being used to support the widget code, and there is work in progress to forward-port its JIT. I'm not writing that code but I am advising on it as questions come up.

Thanks for keeping TenFourFox going for so long! It let me keep using a G4 iBook as a daily driver until ~2016 when the web got to be too much for it to handle.

Yes, my poor 1.33GHz iBook G4 really drags in it now, but it suffices for simple things and grabbing files for the tasks it still does.

Re: PowerFox Browser

#33

Post by classichasclass »

geerlingguy wrote: post #26
classichasclass wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(TenFourFox maintainer) Thanks, glad it was helpful to you. There is some TenFourFox code in this respin which is being used to support the widget code, and there is work in progress to forward-port its JIT. I'm not writing that code but I am advising on it as questions come up.

Thank you for your work on it! I love that I can browse most of the modern web on G4 and G5 Macs still.

Thanks! I wish modern JavaScript were a little kinder to it, but I still use it myself for basic tasks.

Re: PowerFox Browser

#34

Post by SG- »

I was just reminiscing on the Camino/Chimera browser earlier today and this looks fantastic.

I kinda wish there was a build for modern macOS on Apple Silicon to see how light and fast this little browser is.

Re: PowerFox Browser

#35

Post by pndy »

classichasclass wrote: post #19
pndy wrote: post #7

There was a similar project called TenFourFox that was halted in 2022: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfo... Some 12 years ago I had to order a new motherboard and at that time all I had at hand was some old eMac. I'm not sure if it had 512MB or 1GB of ram installed by previous owner but browsing the Internet was tiresome. Still, both that chunky…

(TenFourFox maintainer) Thanks, glad it was helpful to you. There is some TenFourFox code in this respin which is being used to support the widget code, and there is work in progress to forward-port its JIT. I'm not writing that code but I am advising on it as questions come up.

I thought you’d be here - thank you!

Re: PowerFox Browser

#37

Post by prmoustache »

userbinator wrote: post #4

One thing that seems to be common amongst many of these Firefox forks is they're very difficult to find which official version they're equivalent in functionality to. This one is no exception.

Is that a firefox fork? I don't even see mention about license in the website or github repo.

Re: PowerFox Browser

#39

Post by gpvos »

How do I know it's secure against recent security breaches? Apparently the code base has diverged a lot from current Firefox and Gecko, so they can't just apply patches from there. Do they fuzz it, do static analysis, etc.? I guess the main security feature is that so few people use it that there are very few attacks on it.

Re: PowerFox Browser

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Post by swiftcoder »

prmoustache wrote: post #37
userbinator wrote: post #4

One thing that seems to be common amongst many of these Firefox forks is they're very difficult to find which official version they're equivalent in functionality to. This one is no exception.

Is that a firefox fork? I don't even see mention about license in the website or github repo.

It was forked from Firefox a decade ago, so at this point there's not much relation between the PaleMoon/Basilisk lineage and modern Firefox
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