TenFourFox / ArcticFox was: Recent events ...

[Sergey Fedorov]

For ppc part I am in. Especially if Palemoon fixing doesn’t proceed much (it builds, but does not work yet).

Serge
On Feb 19, 2025 at 17:23 +0700, Riccardo Mottola via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org>, wrote:
> raf via macports-dev wrote:
> > > Without you, no TenFourFox on Intel and also no ArcticFox on Macs.
> > Ooh, that's ineresting. I just tried to install TenFourFox
> > on intel 10.6 and it complained that it's only for ppc.
> > I'll have another look.
>
> officially, TenFourFox was only PPC and it needed 10.4 to build.
> I maintained for a while a fork of it with Ken that did run on Intel
> 32bit and it did build also on 10.5 actually and that was my preferred
> build method, until I stopped working on it. I never got JIT working
> again on Intel either and upstream stopped regular updates.
>
> About at the same time I started working on ArcticFox which now should
> be about as capable as TenFourFox but faster. It compiles which recent
> gcc and clang.
> However, it is 10.6 and up only (best on 10.7 and 10.9). Help there is
> also appreciated, since 10.6 maintenance is hard, since I am in the
> domain of importing patches where Firefox removed support.
>
> 10.5 is not working nor Intel nor PPC, even if I attempted to make a
> hybrid. If somebody is really interested and wants to help and hack, I
> can collaborate and share patches, it could be promising. The idea to
> get it working would be x86-64, then i386 then PPC (in order of
> hardness...). I can get it to compile on 10.5 64bit, but it does crash
> on startup.
>
>
> Riccardo
>
>
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