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However, I have to say that in my estimation, the ultimate Well as it has so far, it may become my Gecko browser of choice on the It's early days yet, but if TenFourFox keeps working for me as Uptime proceeds, as Safari and WebKit-based OmniWeb do to a lesserĭegree. On the other hand, TenFourFox seems to be a bit of a resource hog,īut on the upside, its general performance doesn't deteriorate as JavaScript in TenFourFox smokes competing browsers on a G4 Mac. Opera's text-entry stall bug in Tiger) - and it's respectably speedy

It starts up reasonably quickly - notĪs fast as Safari, but faster than Opera (mercifully it doesn't share Haven't had a TenFourFox crash yet (at this writing), and the browser Opera 10.63 or Safari 4.1.3, both of which are crash-prone in 10.4. Indeed, it's much more stable than either Is now at least as stable as any of the other remaining Tiger and In November seems to have been pretty much ironed out, and TenFourFox I'm happy to report that the bugginess that plagued the beta I tried So I have been doing so over the past week. Readers have suggested that it's time for me to try TenFourFox again, As I chronicled my browser adventures in Tiger, several OS X 10.4 browsing - all of which have their virtues and However, TenFourFox was well shy of being ready for prime timeīrowsing in late 2010, so I returned to SeaMonkey, Opera, OmniWeb, and recently Safari 4.1.3 for my Probably not much longer according to a Camino blog Variants, which still support PowerPC Macs and OS X 10.4 (but Smaller changes due to the older build system available to OS XĬhecking out a beta build of TenFourFox on the Pismo last fall, Iįound performance seemed to be pretty much on par with contemporaneous Such as its own JavaScript JIT accelerator, as well as a raft of

#TENFOURFOX INTEL CODE#

Work with OS X Tiger, modified font code to remove Mozilla'sĭependency on CoreText, disables graphics acceleration and WebGL (whichĪre not compatible with Tiger), and includes PowerPC-specific code, They explain that TenFourFox contains modified widget code to Mozilla's source code, and subsequently security updates will still The developers pledge that new feature versions of TenFourFox willĬontinue to be released until it is no longer possible to compile Need them to do online for years to come, at least in theory.

It will enable users'Ĭherished old PowerPC Macs, like my two going-on-11-years-old Pismo PowerBooks, to do what we Including faster JavaScript, WebM video, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 support,Īs well as new and emerging Web features. Release version of Firefox 4 and has nearly all the same features, TenFourFox, now out of beta, uses almost all the same code as the My answer is still pretty broad, but hopefully can still help.Last November, I reviewed the then-currentįloodGap's port of Firefox 4 for PowerPC Macs that supports bothĭeveloper,, dropped support for OS X 10.4 afterįirefox 3.6 and for PowerPC after the fourth beta of Firefox 4. Different SDKs will influence how OS-integration code is built (what system-level routine to call, enable/disable feature support, use/not use shim code for missing OS feature, etc.) and that's most of it.ġ0.5 and 10.6 are likely to have more solid threads support, but from an overview there are few browser features disabled from changing SDKs, (webGL can't work with 10.4, while 10.5 supports openGL 2 which makes it a possibility) and the security/sandboxing model will remain consistent within the browser.

#TENFOURFOX INTEL MAC OS X#

Each 'flavour' is built against its matching SDK (10.5, 10.6, 10.4) and can be run on a later OS X version since a Mac OS X version usually fulfills runtime system dependencies for software compiled against earlier SDKs. It's more about OS and much less CPU features (with a few exceptions of course). S Magnet The Ten*Fox names imply the minimum OS version, but meanwhile the browser itself fundamentally remains consistent.

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