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(Guide) How to change branding on TenFourFox for future forks and unofficial releases.
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I’d like to track down the original downloads of the commercial in question. There was both small and large downloads of it, but Archive.org never backed them up.
If I could only track down the original download of it.... that might work better in iTunes.
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You can use PPCMC to convert the youtube 480P to a playable codec for your G3.
I quickly did the one you linked: https://we.tl/t-geLqOsfi7p
Updated OP with a few more files to change that i noticed i missed while doing this..... 
I have a few more things to change, then a full rebuild. Will release it later in the week if anybody wants it. It will have the same optimizations that i did for IceWeaselPPC.
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I have a few more things to change, then a full rebuild. Will release it later in the week if anybody wants it. It will have the same optimizations that i did for IceWeaselPPC.
Cheers
@wicknix I have a couple of suggestions that you may decide to make use of:
Perhaps it could include the optimizations packaged in TenFourFoxPEP as well? All it would take is making its preference adjustments the browser default. - Or maybe a second version could be made for that purpose. In any case, I'm sure many users would appreciate the additional boost that would provide.
Also, would it be possible to compile it with support for GPU acceleration (plus everything else vanilla TFF disabled)? If necessary, maybe another version could even be compiled against the Leopard SDK to take advantage of this if those functionalities are lost on Tiger, like what once was with the dynamic between TenFourFox and AuroraFox.
I also think that compiling separate applications for the four different CPU versions would in this regard offer additional performance that would have gone otherwise untapped, too.
But either way, great work.
Perhaps it could include the optimizations packaged in TenFourFoxPEP as well? All it would take is making its preference adjustments the browser default. - Or maybe a second version could be made for that purpose. In any case, I'm sure many users would appreciate the additional boost that would provide.
Also, would it be possible to compile it with support for GPU acceleration (plus everything else vanilla TFF disabled)? If necessary, maybe another version could even be compiled against the Leopard SDK to take advantage of this if those functionalities are lost on Tiger, like what once was with the dynamic between TenFourFox and AuroraFox.
I also think that compiling separate applications for the four different CPU versions would in this regard offer additional performance that would have gone otherwise untapped, too.
But either way, great work.
Will this be another Leopard option for web browsing ?Updated OP with a few more files to change that i noticed i missed while doing this.....
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I have a few more things to change, then a full rebuild. Will release it later in the week if anybody wants it. It will have the same optimizations that i did for IceWeaselPPC.
Cheers
Not bad suggestions. However i'm only doing generic G3 optimized builds built on Tiger like before. Even with me just disabling useless garbage in IceWeaselPPC the generic G3 builds were faster than stock TFF regardless what G3/G4/G5 TFF build it was put up against. I don't have the time to build each specific build with all the other projects i have going on.
For now users can install TFFPEP on their own if they want it. Same goes for any major code changes. I'm not doing it right now. IF, and that's a big IF, i decide to take this on after the final unofficial TFF security updates end, i would then clone TFF's repo to mine on github, upload my current changes, and proceed like we did with Arctic Fox (which i don't have time for either). Right now i'm just preparing for the end. At the very least, i feel comfortable with at least updating the certificates and releasing a new build every year for people to use. That doesn't take much time to do, and keeps me free to focus on my other projects. If i do decide to do more, i'd want some people in the community to step up and help. I don't want another Arctic Fox where it was just me and Riccardo, and we asked for volunteers to help (mostly in the ppc linux community), nobody did, and now it's mainly just Riccardo as i lost interest in it. All i do these days is build it for 10.6 and ppc linux when he's ready to release.
Anyway. As i said, i will keep the certs updated and release at least 1 generic G3 compatible build a year for now. No guarantees on anything more than that though. Hopefully somebody else steps up as i'm getting tired of working on all these browsers.
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For now users can install TFFPEP on their own if they want it. Same goes for any major code changes. I'm not doing it right now. IF, and that's a big IF, i decide to take this on after the final unofficial TFF security updates end, i would then clone TFF's repo to mine on github, upload my current changes, and proceed like we did with Arctic Fox (which i don't have time for either). Right now i'm just preparing for the end. At the very least, i feel comfortable with at least updating the certificates and releasing a new build every year for people to use. That doesn't take much time to do, and keeps me free to focus on my other projects. If i do decide to do more, i'd want some people in the community to step up and help. I don't want another Arctic Fox where it was just me and Riccardo, and we asked for volunteers to help (mostly in the ppc linux community), nobody did, and now it's mainly just Riccardo as i lost interest in it. All i do these days is build it for 10.6 and ppc linux when he's ready to release.
Anyway. As i said, i will keep the certs updated and release at least 1 generic G3 compatible build a year for now. No guarantees on anything more than that though. Hopefully somebody else steps up as i'm getting tired of working on all these browsers.
Cheers
I wish I knew how to program
Sadly, I never was good at C++ in college - before the networking era in 2000s. However, I plan to tackle crypto ancienne to inject TLS 1.2 into classila, which you told me a PB G4 Titanium should have no issues compiling Good, I would like to do what i can to support your efforts in keeping our machines alive !
Absolutely. I just ask it keep the PPC portion of the name to differentiate from the 10.6 and Linux versions that are based on newer code. Don't want people to think that the 10.4/10.5 versions are using 52.9/UXP's code base. I just chose this as i already had the branding made. Didn't feel like making new stuff.
On a side note: I have a GREAT idea for a name if somebody wanted to do a totally different rebrand. Ready?......
FortyFive. It incorporates the 4 in 10.4 and the 5 in 10.5 and also states the firefox version it's based on 45.
Brilliant aren't i?
@wicknix I think that's an excellent idea. The only issue is that you would have to constantly label it as a browser with every mention, as the name does not include any mention of the central browsing element.
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But that aside, I do think it's a fitting name, especially if it was retooled into something like 'TenFortyFiveFox' for clearer communication of its effective purpose.
Personally though, I believe we were onto something when someone came up with 'PowerFox' almost two years back ...
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But that aside, I do think it's a fitting name, especially if it was retooled into something like 'TenFortyFiveFox' for clearer communication of its effective purpose.
Personally though, I believe we were onto something when someone came up with 'PowerFox' almost two years back ...
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I prefer 85 - the current FireFox version I believe. Please keep politics out of this. Right now, the country reminds me of the former USSR. Thank you.
I think that would be version 89, if I recall correctly.
I don't blame you one bit...
Notice my use of 'untied'...
@wicknix I see. I always thought it came out of a discussion around making a PowerUOC-integrated version of TenFourFox that would have been compiled with hardware acceleration enabled. There were plans for this a while back.
But if that's the case, then maybe it wasn't so original after all.
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On a side note, I regret explaining why 'FortyFive' wouldn't work...
But if that's the case, then maybe it wasn't so original after all.
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On a side note, I regret explaining why 'FortyFive' wouldn't work...
Eighty-Eight as of today. (This stupid version number inflation needs to stop.)
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Not sure. I did that late 2018, early 2019. It was only a one-off build. I don't care if somebody reuses that name. Im not going to use it again. They'll just need their own icons as I can't seem to find where I archived them. :-/
@MacPro2006VBox : You have a bigger issue than just whatever compiler you're using, or script you changed. I just took a look at your github repo and you are missing tons of branding changes that i have listed in the OP. Even it if *did* build it would have 2 names attached to it in random places and it'd still use TFF's icons and logos. It'd say Camino in some places and TenFourFox in other places. You can't release that legally until all branding is changed per Cameron. Just a heads up, and good luck in your quest.
Example:
github.com
Still says TenFourFox
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Example:
Lightspeed/browser/branding/unofficial/configure.sh at master · RetroSoftwareRepository/Lightspeed
Mozilla for Power Macintosh. Contribute to RetroSoftwareRepository/Lightspeed development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
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@MacPro2006VBox : You have a bigger issue than just whatever compiler you're using, or script you changed. I just took a look at your github repo and you are missing tons of branding changes that i have listed in the OP. Even it if *did* build it would have 2 names attached to it in random places and it'd still use TFF's icons and logos. It'd say Camino in some places and TenFourFox in other places. You can't release that legally until all branding is changed per Cameron. Just a heads up, and good luck in your quest.
Example:
Still says TenFourFoxLightspeed/browser/branding/unofficial/configure.sh at master · RetroSoftwareRepository/Lightspeed
Mozilla for Power Macintosh. Contribute to RetroSoftwareRepository/Lightspeed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ah... I’ll need to change that. Cheers!
There's roughly 40 files to edit for branding, replacement urls etc, plus 8 or so icons / images to change.
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