Is TenFourFox Going the way of Leopard Webkit?

[sawpits]

Leopard Webkit has not been updated in over a year now while over at his TFF blog Cameron is giving several hints that real updates are going to be a slower process than in the past. I believe that Cameron is preparing people for the day TFF stops getting much of his attention.

Cameron is focusing on other things now so his time with TFF plus difficulties in keeping it up to date says the old days are passing if not already past. The next update will only contain security patches.

You may have suspected by the relative lack of activity on this blog and at Github that there aren't going to be any new features in the next TenFourFox release, and you'd be right. Between my wife and I actually being in the same hemisphere for a couple weeks, an incredible amount of work at the dayjob and work on the POWER9 side for mainline Firefox I've just been too short-handed to do much development this cycle. It will instead be numbered FPR16 SPR1 with security patches only and I'll use the opportunity to change our upstream certificate source to 68ESR. Watch for it sometime next week.

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[eyoungren]

I think ultimately the handwriting is on the wall. It's been there since Kaiser made the choice to switch to parity releases rather than staying even with Firefox itself.

Kaiser is a research physician at one of the major (if not the major) university hospitals in San Bernardino County, California. That's his day job. New wife, as he's already indicated, and eventually I'd imagine - kids. At some point it's either going to be passed to someone else or abandoned. He's got other hobbies and interests that also demand his attention.

I'm not going to cry on that day. Since Firefox 4 we all have been on borrowed time. It will have been a good run.

As to Chrome, I have after many years switched back to Opera on my Intel Macs. A long time ago that was the browser of choice for me- before Opera had issues and Mozilla took center stage.

Now Opera is back to being better than it was in that time period and here's the bonus. Opera will run Chrome plugins. So for me that's a great solution. I don't have to deal with Google's draconian decisons concerning the browser but I still get to use Chrome plugins.

A very acceptable situation for me.

 

[z970]

As @eyoungren said, the writing's on the wall. I expect a final release (hopefully FPR19 or 20) somewhere next year, probably around its 10th anniversary. Then, expect the optimized forks to start rolling out.

A little after that, when OS X browsing really starts showing its age, it's probably Linux or bust for many people. At which point, others might also finally leave PowerPC for other architectures, like ARM, or POWER. Who's to say, really.

I do still hope Dr. Kaiser updates Classilla one final time, though. Would be very nice, especially considering it would be the last wave.

 

[eyoungren]

As @eyoungren said, the writing's on the wall. I expect a final release (hopefully FPR19 or 20) somewhere next year, probably around its 10th anniversary. Then, expect the optimized forks to start rolling out.

A little after that, when OS X browsing really starts showing its age, it's probably Linux or bust for many people. At which point, others might also finally leave PowerPC for other architectures, like ARM, or POWER. Who's to say, really.

I do still hope Dr. Kaiser updates Classilla one final time, though. Would be very nice, especially considering it would be the last wave.

I've mentioned a few times that my budget range is dynamic. As older Intel Mac models continue to come into the high end of my budget range it's those Macs that will replace my PowerPC Macs. The PowerPC Macs will either be relegated to tasks they can still handle or…well, we will cross that bridge when we get there.

It's been a great run though, so again, no crying. Still quite a while yet though.

 

[Appleuser201]

I think ultimately the handwriting is on the wall. It's been there since Kaiser made the choice to switch to parity releases rather than staying even with Firefox itself.

Kaiser is a research physician at one of the major (if not the major) university hospitals in San Bernardino County, California. That's his day job. New wife, as he's already indicated, and eventually I'd imagine - kids. At some point it's either going to be passed to someone else or abandoned. He's got other hobbies and interests that also demand his attention.

I'm not going to cry on that day. Since Firefox 4 we all have been on borrowed time. It will have been a good run.

As to Chrome, I have after many years switched back to Opera on my Intel Macs. A long time ago that was the browser of choice for me- before Opera had issues and Mozilla took center stage.

Now Opera is back to being better than it was in that time period and here's the bonus. Opera will run Chrome plugins. So for me that's a great solution. I don't have to deal with Google's draconian decisons concerning the browser but I still get to use Chrome plugins.

A very acceptable situation for me.

I would like a newer version of Opera to be ported to OS X or ppc linux... get the best of everything in one browser