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  • 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.
    by gpvos
  • I used TenFourFox to extend the usefulness of my PowerMac G5 for many years, though I last used it about a decade ago. I'd imagine running the modern web on a machine that slow would be painful.

    The G5 was actually the last Mac I owned until buying a Neo just for giggles.

    by seabrookmx
  • Bashed of comments here I checked https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ which is this bashed on looks great when you want lightweight browser to run on old laptops or whatever. Look like still some work being done looking at the repo (not a abandonware) I opened 20+ random tabs and ram usage still round gig, very nice I use old laptops to show some dashboards and stock ticker updates etc and I am fine with opening some trusted site or own designed dashboard in this thing even if underlying engine might not be secure ( worse case I mean I don’t know security/patches of underlying engine but it opened all random stuff I opened )
    by born-jre
  • Wonderful timing. I just set up an old Mac Pro with Snow Leopard and Vista [1] for retro software compatibility testing.

    I might download and give this a shot

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiZR3UFaWuU

    by CursedSilicon
  • So grateful for all of the dedicated coders and hackers in this space to keep our old Macs relevant and useable.

    PowerFox has tweaks especially for Leopard and Snow Leopard and Mac-quality of life features. You can also try Basilisk, which is the upstream version without those tweaks.

    Momiji is another variant targeting Mac OS Mavericks and other targets with ESR Firefox fixes. Works pretty well!

    Finally, there is work being done to revive Safari for Mavericks and work to bring Netsurf to MacOS 9.

    by system7rocks
  • 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.
    by userbinator
  • Seeing that aqua scrollbar fills me with such joy. This is when tech was joyful and fun. I think what happened to the scrollbar is such a reflection of our industry as a whole. A microcosm.
    by ishanr
  • 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 white boy and TenFourFox managed to help me and I've purchased that mobo.

    by pndy

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