![]() TenFourFox was the first and still one of the few browsers on PowerPC Mac OS X to support TLS 1.3 (or even 1.2), and we are the only such browser with a JavaScript JIT. I'm also proud of the fair number of TenFourFox features that were successfully backported or completely new. Kaiser's full post is long, but it's worth a read for vintage-computer enthusiasts or anyone who works on software-Kaiser expresses frustration with the realities of developing and supporting a niche app, but he also highlights TenFourFox's impressive technical achievements and ruminates on the nature of the modern Internet and open source software development, saying: The final planned release of TenFourFox was earlier this month. And in March of this year, Kaiser announced that TenFourFox updates would be ending after over a decade of development. And amazingly, the browser has continued to trundle on ever since.īut continuing to backport Firefox features to aging, stuck-in-time PowerPC processors only got more difficult as time went on. Maintained primarily by Cameron Kaiser, the TenFourFox project sprang up in late 2010 after Mozilla pulled PowerPC support from Firefox 4 during its development. One of those projects was TenFourFox, a fork of the Firefox browser for G3, G4, and G5-based PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5. Like what you have read? Send Simon a donation via Tip Jar.Further Reading My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement ![]() One thing for sure, this is a sad day for PowerPC users.įollow Simon Royal on Twitter or send him an Email. We’re left in a catch 22 situation: Do you keep an outdated browser to have support for an outdated Flash plugin, or do you upgrade to a newer supported browser version while forsaking Flash altogether. This is a huge blow for the PowerPC community.įlash for PowerPC stopped at version 10.1, with some unofficial 11.1 and 11.5 hacks, and while it is behind the x86 world, it still works for about 90% of the Web. While still having a maintained browser for the foreseeable future, it does mean that Flash support, amongst others, is going to be a no go. Mozilla removed the support for Carbon and QuickDraw in plugins in Firefox which virtually all PPC-compatible plugins are based on, thus ending the possibility of plugins to continue for PowerPC Macs. TenFourFox 17 looks set to be the last version to support plugins. In version 6, the TenFourFox team disabled plugin support by default, but it could be enabled ( instructions here), however, in recent shocking news it appears that plugin support in future versions of TenFourFox will be removed altogether (extensions and add-ons remain). Each release of TenFourFox mirrors Firefox as closely as possible. Luckily, Cameron Kaiser and his team have been back porting newer version of Firefox to PPC Macs in the form of TenFourFox. At writing this the official Firefox is currently at version 21, whereas TenFourFox is sitting at version 17.0.6 ( with a beta of 21). This was the first version not to support the PowerPC platform. Mozilla released Firefox 4 in April 2011. ![]() The future of PowerPC web browsing is looking even bleaker with the recent announcement of no plugin support in future releases of TenFourFox.
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