I’ve been working for a few days (but mostly nights) on a new project, a TenFourFox fork, based on some of the changes introduced by Aquafox. If you don’t know what TenFourFox is, it’s a fork of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC computers, supporting Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Fukurou, my fork, will support only Mac OS X 10.5 and the G4-7450 CPU. It has updated certificates from Mozilla ESR128 and it should support most modern websites.
I intend to rip out all unneeded features, like telemetry, pocket, disable video play, disable webgl, basically configure it for text/image browsing and not as a media browser since a 2004 laptop is definitely not suited for browsing React sites from 2025. Or Youtube.
Build time on my Apple iBook G4 is 13 hours (1.2GHz CPU, 1.256MB RAM), so it takes a while build the changes. It has uBlock Origin integrated and blocks successfully all ads.
Development is done on the same iBook, using TextMate, git and MacPorts. I’ll mock-up a project page one of those days with more information.
All hail PowerPC.
