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'The Web moves faster than a solo developer and the TLS apocalypse has rendered all old browsers equal by simply chopping everyone's legs off at once,' he wrote. This, he said, was due to 'the sheer enormity of the work necessary to bring it up to modern standards.' Classila's development has been far slower than TenFourFox's, with the last release in 2014.

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Kaiser also used the opportunity to call time on Classila, a 'vaguely modern' fork of Mozilla for older Macintosh computers running Mac OS 8.6 and 9. Eventually, the dream of browsing on a PowerPC Mac will die. You can make workarounds to gracefully degrade where we have missing HTML or DOM features, but JavaScript is pretty much run or don't, and more and more sites just plain collapse if any portion of it doesn't.' For better or for worse, web browsers' primary role is no longer to view documents it is to view applications that, by sheer coincidence, sometimes resemble documents. 'However, JavaScript is what probably killed TenFourFox quickest. 'Writing and maintaining a browser engine is fricking hard and everything moves far too quickly for a single developer now,' Kaiser said. Adding modern JavaScript features, like await and async, would require major changes to the underlying JavaScript engine, adding further complexity. With no Rust compiler for 32-bit PowerPC platforms, creating builds beyond FireFox 54 is a near-impossibility. no USB3 and Thunderbolt on Mini-Display Port connector that no one else will use, etc.And there are insurmountable hurdles that come with building a modern browser for computers that predate 2005. Maybe they can go back to cooperative multi-tasking (iOS’s piddly multitasking isn’t much better) and bring Apple networking back and every other thing they seem to like to do to isolate the Mac from real computers (e.g. Instead, iOS is being integrated back into OSX (App store added, so they can get their 30% of gross profits of ALL developers for the OSX platform), LaunchPad is slowly going to replace the Finder for a more ‘iOS’ feel to OSX (and one day will probably mean App store only for software thus removing all competition to Apple brand software no Firefox at all, for example) and turning the Mac into a giant turd once again like it was in the OS9 days.

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The latter can be shown the lack of progress in OSX (Lion) proper such as no OpenGL 4.x, still no resolution independent display despite support being announced clear back in Tiger, ancient graphic drivers that never get updated and therefore run games available on both platforms at 1/2 to 1/3 the speed of same hardware in Windows (not updating OpenGL doesn’t help either), etc. Apple has no soul anymore and Steve Jobs only cares about smart phones these days.

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They didn’t have to remove PPC support from XCode (which effectively makes it a nightmare for newer software to easily include PPC support) and thus Apple shows its contempt for users of old machines, proving they only care about making more money trying to force you to upgrade your hardware even if it works fine for your needs.

I put most of the blame on Apple, though. They’ll continue to support WinXP, though (from 2001 era). I understand the author sent the finished JIT compiler back to the Firefox team (which solves 1 of their 2 given reasons why they can’t be bothered to support PPC) and they apparently don’t care since it was all just a bunch of BS excuses to save them some work. The “Furb” builds keep acceleration intact and should feel much faster overall, although TenFour has a finished Javascript JIT compiler working and so it will do Javascript much faster (over 2x faster).

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In other words, it will run like crap on newer (10.5 capable) PPC Macs (or ones upgraded to that status I have ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and 1.8GHz 7448 G4 here) that support hardware acceleration and Core Animation. The problem is that TenFourFox is designed for the author’s own personal use and is therefore made to run on 10.4 without newer 10.5 features, namely hardware acceleration.