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Re: What browser for macppc?



On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 02:02, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:59:30AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Arcticfox is in pkgsrc and claim to build on PowerPC:
> > https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox
> > It does not build on NetBSD/macppc, but I am working on it.
>
> I got it running. I have to cleanup the patches before committing,
> which will take some time because building takes days.
>
> Articfox on NeBSD/macppc looks a bit like now defunct TenFourFox on
> MacOSX. Some sites works fine, but if there is too much JavaScript,
> it can get very slow. Youtube is a pain to navigate, and it
> will not play videos anyway (but one can still hand URLs to youtube-dl).

Most excellent. I suspect there are some other older 32bit platforms
which could benefit, but this would be just right for macppc owners
:-p

Thanks for this

David


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