@thewireless Just a gentle reminder that while they are both the same technology, the Quartz "2D" Extreme terminology (the technology of which differs from "Quartz Extreme", further) applies to Tiger only, and the QuartzGL terminology is exclusive to Leopard. And both furthermore require Core Image-capable graphics cards in order to be properly utilized, otherwise at best case they will have no effect on performance, or at worst the system might try and emulate them in software (given that Leopard already emulates CI on incompatible GPUs). Granted I'm not 100% clear on that one, but certainly it won't yield the desired effect on less-capable systems.
At this point in time, I would probably also remove the contents of network.dns.localDomains by default. That preference is basically the browser's built-in hosts file, and it routes requests to the entered domains back to the localhost, from what I recall. I compiled that list from scratch by logging the most common ad / tracking networks actively being used by each of the top 100 most popular websites as of around mid 2020 back when the version of foxPEP it was introduced with was still in the R&D stage. Doing it this way instead of just using the more complete MVPS hosts file allowed one to benefit from most of the same performance improvements as the latter when accessing the current (at the time) web without delaying the DNS queries by making the browser parse through a gigantic file first, effectively using the best of both worlds.
Regardless, it's been over four years since then and I'm sure that the list is now out of date and needlessly adding slight latencies to DNS response times, and anyone browsing on a Sorbet install (and potentially Shuriken; I forget what it came with) already has those entries built into the system hosts file anyway, compounding query latency. Otherwise, most users should ideally be using addons like uMatrix for a more futureproof ad blocking solution overall.
All of that aside though, great initiative and stellar work on Aquafox. I gave it a brief try when I had one of the G4s out recently, and I don't recall anything based on TenFourFox in recent memory being so ridiculously performant straight out of the box on such constrained hardware (save perhaps for tweaked foxboxes). I remember speculating with other members years ago on what an all-in-one fully optimized TFF might look like after development ceased (which it inevitably did), and now it would appear that this project has become the ultimate culmination of all of our efforts to make web browsing on these systems a better experience for everyone.
Simply exquisite. Keep it up.
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