Maybe PowerPC users could think about collectively pooling resources to hire 2-3 programmers to update javascript, add features, and optimize the browser. I’d be fully supportive of such an endeavor.
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Of course, someone could come along and pick up on TenFourFox code and decide to tweak and add new features on their own.
He’s a brilliant and kind guy, and we owe him our immense gratitude. It was awesome to thank him personally and find out how many other vintage projects he has going on. I had the privilege of meeting Cameron back at vintage computer conference near Sunnyvale, CA several years back. 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.
The modern web, even on a somewhat updated browser, will struggle on our older computers. The internet will continue to introduce new technologies and make life miserable. Plus, despite many PowerPC users upgrading to solid state drives, flashed graphics card, occasional CPU upgrades, and maxed out RAM, there isn’t any processing power to gain out of our aging and venerable Macs. There was always going to be an end to development for TenFourFox. There really are not any alternatives beyond jumping to Linux, which carries with it its own set of tradeoffs and challenges. Cameron has performed coding miracles figuring out ways to add features, squeeze better performance, and generally give us a secure and somewhat modern option for PowerPC Macs running 10.4 and 10.5 in recent years.
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In any case, I have now removed that empty ad frame and there is no longer any gap on my MR forum webpages.I was away enjoying the pristine beauty of western Maryland earlier this week when the news dropped from Cameron Kaiser that TenFourFox, the most important piece of software to keep our Power Mac G5s somewhat relevant in this modern era of complex interweb technology, is nearing the end of its active development.įirst, this should be no surprise. The only downside is that the removal applies at the end of the page load. I'm mentioning this here because it's another tool to block stuff that can be a problem to your web browsing speeds. Oddly enough it picked up my old Ad Block Element Hider settings! It has fine grain controls for domain, website, similar pages and one page only - so you can specify just what you want removed and where. RIP lets you do the same thing, remove elements of a page you do not wish to see. So, this morning I decided to see if there were any addons out there that offered the functionality of Ad Block Element Hider but without having to use ABP. But I had to remove the addon once I stopped using ABP because it requires ABP. This was great because I could hide stuff I didn't want to see. This allowed me to "remove" elements of a page.
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In the past, when I was using Ad Block Plus I also used Ad Block Element Hider. BluHell is blocking the ad of course, but now there is a giant gap. That had the effect of causing the frame at the top of the page that displays ads to reappear in my copy of TenFourFox.
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