TenFourFox on Intel

[Ken Cunningham]

Thanks. 

You are building on 10.5 Intel still I believe.

I'll see how it works on my 10.5 Intel system. Will help if I can.

I appreciate your efforts so far.

Best,

Ken




On 2017-12-27, at 2:57 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2017-12-11 17:44:24 +0100 Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm very interested.
> 
> Very good. I need some help now!
> Anybody else? :)
> 
>> I have a Portfile I started here for TenFourFox:
>> https://github.com/kencu/myports/tree/master/www/tenfourfox
>> It builds to a certain point and then hits an error. Forget what it was just now. But it's a good starting point.
> 
> The build shouls be relatively simple now: once all dependencies are installed "gmake -f client.mk build" should be sufficient.
> 
> Check here:
> https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/wiki/HowToBuildFPR
> 
> add yasm to the dependencies.
> 
> My build follows that and the goal is to merge almost everything in the original repository.
> 
> Currently I work on my own for which eases pull request, I encourage you to try it out:
> 
> https://github.com/rmottola/tenfourfox
> 
> A lot of work went in. Many problematic features are disabled now, I want to get a completing build as a first thing.
> However, currently, I get a very strange Make error which I am not able to track down and fix.
> Help appreciated! I can code, but these complex makefiles interwined with python are hard for me.
> 
>> At present I use Firefox at present on 10.6.8 (Firefox ESR 45.9.0). It works just great on 10.6.8.
>> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.9.0esr/
> 
> Me too on newer computers, while on 10.5/Intel the situation is a disaster.
> I am using  very old version of TenFourFox which did run on Intel, but v17 is today very limited, giving rendeing issues as well as TLS issues, which is an issue for me.
> 
>> Also available is webkit2-gtk (I have 2.18.0 running) and epiphany. These work well also. Current versions in same repo above. I will put together a PR to update it on MacPorts once a few final systems build it (getting a few systems to build something is easy -- getting them all to build it is harder).
> 
> Interesting, then you do run Midori, e.g. ? If the GTK look can be made somehow native (see my GIMP comments) it would be an intersting alternative. But time being, I think TenFourFox will give us the most "Mac" experience.
> 
> RIccardo
>