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Introducing Aquafox: A New Hope (TenFourFox fork) | Updated Oct 1, 2025
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I experienced the same issue on Firefox 128 x86_64 the other day, but it seems to have disappeared now. I just checked with Aquafox, and Google Search is working as it should (image search works properly too when changing the user agent).
On that note, I've been trying out mobile user agents, and I'm actually surprised that YouTube plays just fine. In my experience, the desktop version would mostly freeze up and give playback errors
Aquafox 3.0
Hey everyone! It is the fourth quarter of the year, and that means it's time for a new release. This major release brings updated security components and patches from the latest ESR and TenFourFox, as well as a few other improvements.What's Included?
Color Emoji Support: Aquafox now includes Emoji 16.0 support provided by the Twemoji font from Pale Moon. Thanks to Jazzzny and roytam1.Enhanced Reader View: More efficient use of width for a better viewing/reading experience. Thanks to classilla.
Alternative User Agents: An overhaul of the user agent setting on the TFF Settings page; new user agents from the latest Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, as well as some mobile (Aquaweb Micro and KaiOS) and Firefox ESR versions, have been added and are sorted by category.
TenFourFox February Patchset: This includes a few low-risk security patches and updates to the ATSUI font blacklist (along with a tweak to CFF font table support), nuisance JavaScript block list, and new adbot host aliases. Thanks to classilla.
Warning Fixes: Some warnings that appeared in the browser console related to missing modules and unreachable code have been cleaned up.
Restored Help Menu: The help menu in the hamburger menu is back. Although it may not be the most used part of the interface, it previously failed to load, leading to an empty spot.
Updated Security and Data Lists: Updated HSTS preload list, HPKP pins, TLS certificate data, tracking protection blocklist, EV root certificates, and TLD list, as well as updated ICU timezone and metazone mapping data from the latest ESR 140 (140.3).
Thank you all for your continued support, and a special thank you to Santiago Lema and rlengthorn for their donations! I’ll see you all again in Q1 next year!
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Tested on a 12" Powerbook - the Reader View improvements are much appreciated!
Would you be willing to try compiling github.com/dbsoft/WhiteStar for PowerPC Tiger? I would offer, but I have very limited RAM (Powerbook G4 problems), which can cause build failures. While Aquafox is likely to be the main browser for quite some time, due to its many optimizations and features, having more browser options would be much appreciated.
Build instructions: https://dbsoft.org/whitestar-build-mac.php
Any change of making GH usable? At least being able to view comments in issues (totally broken for a while) and authentificate (without changing URL manually: clicking on more options does nothing, default mobile auth does not work).
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I've actually been trying to compile White Star (on Leopard) since last night, and I haven't had any success so far. This is likely because MacPorts is my archnemesis, hence the lack of an updated Aquafox or TenFourFox port, or an Intel version. I always run into issues. I'm not giving up, though; I will get it working eventually.
In the meantime, I tried the precompiled version as I'm expanding AquafoxBox compatibility with other browsers and had some success (both in running White Star and in creating a foxbox). There are some strange issues, like the inability to use a keyboard for text input. But the future is looking bright; White Star has a lot of potential.
The only thing I can really tell you is to ask someone else to help (me) with this. I already pinged @Ryan Bremer, @GA204, and @f54da in post #274 back in July, but I haven't heard anything from them. When I was injecting a Cloudflare polyfills bundle, it would report as loaded, yet have no real effect. I will try again later. What I'm saying is that I need help with this.
Thank you for your hard work on trying to build this for 10.4+. It's also great that you are making progress with Aquafoxbox, it is a feature I miss even on Windows with modern Firefox.
Would setting up an automatic redirect (as with older versions of this:https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector/tags) work? For the login.
Maybe @classilla could return to this? See: https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/issues/654#issuecomment-2598856373