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Arctic Fox web browser for 10.6 (32 & 64-bit)
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After clean installing 14.04, I believe I figured it out.
The problem wasn't uMatrix or outdated plugins, it was the lack of codecs.
Neither Arctic Fox .17 or Firefox 47 would play any video, but after installing VLC, which automatically installs all required codecs along with it, I could start watching video again in Arctic Fox (very smoothly, might I add), much like the TenFourFox MP4 libraries.
While I was in 12.04 and made that last post, I had already installed VLC and at that point, only uMatrix was getting in the way, blocking the scripts, media, etc. So of course when that was removed from the equation, there was nothing stopping playback.
I shall add all of this to the record.
The problem wasn't uMatrix or outdated plugins, it was the lack of codecs.
Neither Arctic Fox .17 or Firefox 47 would play any video, but after installing VLC, which automatically installs all required codecs along with it, I could start watching video again in Arctic Fox (very smoothly, might I add), much like the TenFourFox MP4 libraries.
While I was in 12.04 and made that last post, I had already installed VLC and at that point, only uMatrix was getting in the way, blocking the scripts, media, etc. So of course when that was removed from the equation, there was nothing stopping playback.
I shall add all of this to the record.
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Anyone aware of an YouTube video download extension that's still functional?
Hadn't happened in a long time, but apparently YouTube is at it again. Last night, the Saveclipbro.com YouTube Multi Downloader script (under GreaseMonkey) stopped working brutally, giving a 404. Domain URL says “Project closed”, or something of the kind.
Just tried three other scripts from the Greasy Fork website, two give an error, one does not work at all.
“Complete YouTube Saver”, from the Pale Moon addons, doesn't work either, or at least I can't find its icon once it's installed. For that matter the developpers have posted that they are re-writing it from scrap.
Btw., Epic's YouTube video download function stopped working in the course of the past week, but gradually so.
Hadn't happened in a long time, but apparently YouTube is at it again. Last night, the Saveclipbro.com YouTube Multi Downloader script (under GreaseMonkey) stopped working brutally, giving a 404. Domain URL says “Project closed”, or something of the kind.
Just tried three other scripts from the Greasy Fork website, two give an error, one does not work at all.
“Complete YouTube Saver”, from the Pale Moon addons, doesn't work either, or at least I can't find its icon once it's installed. For that matter the developpers have posted that they are re-writing it from scrap.
Btw., Epic's YouTube video download function stopped working in the course of the past week, but gradually so.
Excellent, thanks much!
Also: much better resolution than I was used to.
[12.07.2019] ViewTube works perfectly well, but accessing the developer's pages on GitLab.com two days ago dropped something in the browser's cache that got quarantined by ClamXav, a rather seldom occurrence (just found out about it now).
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Just send him a private message.
Use the "Start a New Conversation" option under the Conversations icon (envelope) next to the Notifications icon (flag).
Use the "Start a New Conversation" option under the Conversations icon (envelope) next to the Notifications icon (flag).
Can Spotify's web player be enabled in AF? The instructions here (Firefox tab) don't seem to be related to anything I can figure out. In case the page is only accessible for registered users, this is what it says:
Click Enable DRM in the yellow warning bar at the top of the screen.
If you do not see the yellow bar, you may enable the DRM with these steps:
1. Enter the following into your browser address bar: about: preferences#content.
2. Under DRM content, make sure Play DRM content is enabled.
Click Enable DRM in the yellow warning bar at the top of the screen.
If you do not see the yellow bar, you may enable the DRM with these steps:
1. Enter the following into your browser address bar: about: preferences#content.
2. Under DRM content, make sure Play DRM content is enabled.
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Can Spotify's web player be enabled in AF? The instructions here (Firefox tab) don't seem to be related to anything I can figure out. In case the page is only accessible for registered users, this is what it says:
Click Enable DRM in the yellow warning bar at the top of the screen.
If you do not see the yellow bar, you may enable the DRM with these steps:
1. Enter the following into your browser address bar: aboutreferences#content.
2. Under DRM content, make sure Play DRM content is enabled.
No - there is no solution for PPC.
Thanks, except that I'm not on PPC [mine = 2.3 GHz, Intel Core i7]. But I don't know whether that's related or not.
P.S. Sorry for the ridiculous unintended smiley, replaced it with a space in my own post.
For security reasons AF is built with EME (DRM) disabled (along with many other things disabled or code removed). Being that we are supporting older unsupported OS's we thought it'd be best to lock down AF as much as possible.
Cheers
Cheers
There's an issue with a Mac specific patch that's holding up .18's release, but for the eager beavers on PPC Linux i just built a "pre-release" version from our master branch. Give it a spin. If anything, you might notice some javascript improvements. Currently around 200 bug fixes have to been added at this point in time.
Download (PPC Linux only): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLmKz0vTD_ErmAutTgRPIpgqblI_jlry/view?usp=sharing
Cheers
Download (PPC Linux only): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLmKz0vTD_ErmAutTgRPIpgqblI_jlry/view?usp=sharing
Cheers
Thanks wicknix for your great work
May I ask if there is hope for an updated PowerPC version for OS X? I love ArcticFox on Tiger and Leopard it is so fast and in comparison to other browsers the CPU doesn't immeadiately reach 100% load.
@netsrot39 Once the winter sets in I'll dive back in to that project. My spring/summer/fall months are mostly spent with the wife, motorcycle and boat. The man-cave doesn't see much of me during that time.
Cheers
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It works without any problems on ubuntu MATE 16.04.6 LTS PowerPC on my A-EON AmigaOne X5000 (Non-AltiVec, 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userland).
Sadly, since recently Discourse forums are not working anymore in AF. Example: https://forum.manjaro.org/. Discourse themselves had an upgrade of their software in mid june https://blog.discourse.org/2019/06/discourse-2-3-released/. Curiously Pale Moon v27.9.4 is showing these forums correctly. I tested older AF versions (27.9.13, 27.9.15, 27.9.16), but to no avail. Changing user agent isn't helping. Any idea??
Hi guys,
Am I the only one seeing the red exclamation mark on macrumors https padlock? Sorry if it has been asked before.
![Screen shot 2019-08-03 at 4.24.09 PM.png]( "Screen shot 2019-08-03 at 4.24.09 PM.png")
Am I the only one seeing the red exclamation mark on macrumors https padlock? Sorry if it has been asked before.
@snowy moon @madbiker31 those forums are working ok for me on powerpc linux. However i'm using a mobile user agent. You can try this as a general.useragent.override or the site specific override : Arcticfox/27.9.17 (X11; Linux ppc64; Mobile) . Let me know if that works.
Cheers
EDIT: Tested on Mac. It works with the mobile UA above. In about:config add general.useragent.override.forum.manjaro.org with Arcticfox/27.9.17 (X11; Linux ppc64; Mobile) and it works ok.
![MobileUA.png]( "MobileUA.png")
Cheers
EDIT: Tested on Mac. It works with the mobile UA above. In about:config add general.useragent.override.forum.manjaro.org with Arcticfox/27.9.17 (X11; Linux ppc64; Mobile) and it works ok.
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Yes it works with mobile UA, thanks! Though mobile view of Discourse is only half of the fun . There is a lot of JS, that deals with navigating scroll position and search function etc.
I changed the UA a little bit to Arcticfox/27.9.17 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:3.4), which shows more of the forums layout, but JS still seemed absent.
So question remains, why older PaleMoon works with these forums and AF not…?
. There is a lot of JS, that deals with navigating scroll position and search function etc.I changed the UA a little bit to Arcticfox/27.9.17 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:3.4), which shows more of the forums layout, but JS still seemed absent.
So question remains, why older PaleMoon works with these forums and AF not…?
Good question that i really don't have an answer to. AF's JS has been slightly updated from what shipped with PM27. In theory this shouldn't happen. I'll make note of it and add manjaro's forum to our list of test sites that we use after patches are applied. On the upside, while not optimal, a mobile layout is better than a blank page.
Cheers
@wicknix, I have a G3, and it seems like the processor cannot cope with Arctic Fox or Pale Moon. They work, but really slowly.
SpiderWeb, on the other hand, works like a breeze, and it is a pleasure to use. I have two questions about it.
The browser does not seem to be able to play videos. On YouTube, for example, the player works, but there is no video, just the loading dots. Can this be because the browser has been built with Altivec in mind? Do you think video would work if I compiled it on a G3? And would any of these browsers have better performance if I compiled them myself?
And the second question is about the extensions, how easy is it to port extensions to SpiderWeb? I have tried installing Pale Moon extensions, but the browser tells me they are not compatible.
SpiderWeb, on the other hand, works like a breeze, and it is a pleasure to use. I have two questions about it.
The browser does not seem to be able to play videos. On YouTube, for example, the player works, but there is no video, just the loading dots. Can this be because the browser has been built with Altivec in mind? Do you think video would work if I compiled it on a G3? And would any of these browsers have better performance if I compiled them myself?
And the second question is about the extensions, how easy is it to port extensions to SpiderWeb? I have tried installing Pale Moon extensions, but the browser tells me they are not compatible.
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