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↑ 'TenFourFox Development: Beta 8 now available'.↑ 'Firefox 4 on Tiger PPC, 68K Macintosh Liberation Army'.↑ 'ReleaseNotesBeta7, tenfourfox, Archived release notes for 10.4Fx beta 7'.↑ 'Downloads, tenfourfox, Mozilla for Power Macintosh'.↑ 'The view from Cameron Kaiser's iPhone'.↑ 'Releases/Firefox 4.0b7/BuildNotes'.

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↑ 'Google Groups, Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3'.

↑ 'Google Groups, Do we do any testing on Mac/PPC? Possible blocker for Firefox 4.0 beta 4'.

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↑ 'Issue 28: Install AltiVec libvpx and modify build system (G4, G5 only)'.

↑ 'TenFourFox: The Best Browser for PowerPC Macs Running Tiger?'.

↑ 'TenFourFox is Firefox 4 for your 10.4 PPC Mac'.

↑ 'TenFourFox Wiki, Technical Differences'.

Furthermore, for security and maintainability reasons, NPAPI plugins support is deprecated, and has been subsequently removed.

In particular, it does not fully support Core Text, so it does not understand Apple Advanced Typography features in certain international fonts it does not support graphics acceleration for compositing and it does not support WebGL (because PowerPC Tiger does not support OpenGL 2 ). ĭue to its compatibility with the older operating system, the browser lacks the entire feature set of modern Firefox versions. This has led to favorable reviews on its speed and performance on older Macintosh computers. However, it also includes custom new features, in particular its JavaScript just-in-time compilation backend and AltiVec acceleration, and adds glue code to enable interface features from Firefox 4 and later to still work on Mac OS X Tiger.

Similar to other optimized build projects such as Pale Moon and Swiftfox, TenFourFox includes specific compiler optimizations to improve its overall performance and issues specific builds tuned for specific processor families. TenFourFox shares its main feature set with Firefox along with optimizations for the PowerPC platform. Only minor ESR updates are advertised as suitable for general consumption. Between major ESR versions, developers track changes in Firefox's 6-week rapid release cycle with test builds only to determine whether or not they will still be able to build the software after the next ESR version is released. Īfter Mozilla announced the extended support release (ESR) of Firefox, Cameron Kaiser stated that starting with version 10 of TenFourFox, stable releases of TenFourFox will be based on Firefox ESR to reduce maintenance burden. Version 5.0 switched to the current Mozilla rapid release framework, based on Firefox 5 and including additional AltiVec scaling and color features, and was released on June 16, 2011.

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The finalized first release version, 4.0s, incorporated a security update and a fix for JavaScript performance, and was released on March 24, 2011. JavaScript acceleration using its completed PowerPC version of TraceMonkey was released with beta 9 on January 12, 2011, and enabled fully for beta 11 on February 2, 2011.

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A full complement of builds for the G3, the 74 G4 families and the G5 were released with beta 8 on December 15, 2010. Aligning with previous precedent that modified builds of Firefox source could not use Firefox trademarks without permission, the project was forked and named TenFourFox. This was released to users in separate builds for AltiVec Macs and G3 Macs on November 8, 2010. In parallel, developer Cameron Kaiser created a test build of Firefox 4 that could run on his Power Mac G5 at the same time as support was being withdrawn from beta 7.

Mozilla stopped making PowerPC-compatible universal builds of Firefox 4 with beta 7. In 2010, Mozilla's Mike Beltzner announced that the forthcoming Firefox 4 would not be released for Power Macintosh computers, compatibility with Mac OS X Tiger having already been removed, making Firefox 3.6 the last supported release of Firefox on the older architecture and platform.

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The project shares administration with Classilla, a fork of Mozilla Application Suite for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 8.6. The primary maintainer is Cameron Kaiser. Like Firefox, it includes compatibility with a wide range of addons, Acid2 and Acid3 compliance, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 features however, it also includes JavaScript just-in-time compilation, custom builds for specific PowerPC processor families, and AltiVec acceleration of key media codecs.

The project was started after Mozilla announced that it would not release Firefox 4 for PowerPC versions of OS X. It is a port of Mozilla Firefox for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X to retain compatibility with the older architecture and older versions of the operating system, and to add PowerPC-specific optimizations for improved performance. TenFourFox is a web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine. Mozilla Public License, GNU General Public License, others TenFourFox 12 running under Mac OS X Tiger.