![]() Over the decade TenFourFox has existed, we also implemented our own native date and time controls, basic ad block, advanced Reader View (including sticky and automatic features), additional media support (MP3, MP4 and WebP), additional features and syntax to JavaScript, and AltiVec acceleration in whatever various parts of the browser we could. Our implementation even lets you manipulate webpages that may not work properly to function usefully. We also finished a couple features long planned for mainline Firefox but that never made it, such as our AppleScript (and AppleScript-JavaScript bridge) support. ![]() TenFourFox was the first and still one of the few browsers on PowerPC Mac OS X to support TLS 1.3 (or even 1.2), and we are the only such browser with a JavaScript JIT. I'm also proud of the fair number of TenFourFox features that were successfully backported or completely new. Kaiser's full post is long, but it's worth a read for vintage-computer enthusiasts or anyone who works on software-Kaiser expresses frustration with the realities of developing and supporting a niche app, but he also highlights TenFourFox's impressive technical achievements and ruminates on the nature of the modern Internet and open source software development, saying: The final planned release of TenFourFox was earlier this month. And in March of this year, Kaiser announced that TenFourFox updates would be ending after over a decade of development. And amazingly, the browser has continued to trundle on ever since.īut continuing to backport Firefox features to aging, stuck-in-time PowerPC processors only got more difficult as time went on. ![]() Maintained primarily by Cameron Kaiser, the TenFourFox project sprang up in late 2010 after Mozilla pulled PowerPC support from Firefox 4 during its development. One of those projects was TenFourFox, a fork of the Firefox browser for G3, G4, and G5-based PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5. And don't bother saying 'it's too expensive to upgrade' because that still doesn't make it Tiny Speck's fault.Further Reading My coworkers made me use Mac OS 9 for their (and your) amusement Are you seriously demanding that TS limit their possibility to develop the game further just so you, with your outdated system, are still able to play? If you're still on Tiger, or even Leopard, you're willingly using an outdated system that no current program developer has any obligation to support.ĮSPECIALLY if remaining compatible with the older system means the developers can't work with the latest standards. I have OSX 10.6.8, and you know what? That's not even the latest one. Otherwise I'd still be using Win98.īTW, Glitch runs fine on my 2006 (sic) macbook. There are programmes that run on newer systems that don't run on older systems, it's always been like that. ![]() If Glitch is 'just a game' then all that anger and talk of 'being screwed' is you exaggerating. OP and Wye, if you don't want to upgrade, don't, but why the anger? And because this is a for-profit venture, it's asinine and suicidal, too. It is 100% bizarre and unrealistic to expect every one of your users to be using the absolutely latest and greatest everything. ANNOYING and it has to be repairable by programming. This is what you guys are noticing to? In Firefox if I can get the right/left arrow to instigate movement it won't stop without a mouse click somewhere. I've found using Safari is alright I still get the screen blocking delay of the UPDATE!NOTICE, which is a total PITA to acknowledge each and every time I log in, but I don't have the keyboard control problem in Firefox. That's none of your business, and you're just insulting people with the geez-it's-so-simple attitude. Also Mirth, no one needs to justify their decision or reasons for not updating/upgrading/doing what you think is so simple. People, stop telling other people to just upgrade, it's insulting and you don't know what's going on in anyone else's techno-life. I've shown I'm willing to spend $10 a month to play, Glitch, you're going to lose me and a lot of people like me. I can't and won't upgrade an older mac at home - spending $X thousand for a new computer because the programmers are inflexible? Seriously? - it's just a game. So you're telling us to spend $150 on a new OS? That's no solution.
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