Re: What browser for macppc?

David Brownlee <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:35:11 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Message-ID <CAGN_6pb1BqC7fgCY15EBH3NX2h4OnUixCrXBOhdts6ZLf4rXJw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 02:02, Emmanuel Dreyfus <[email protected]> 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