No. It's TFF FPR13 with IceWeasel branding/icons, and rebuilt with better optimizations than what stock TFF offers. No more, no less.
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So this finally happened. Sort of...
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Ahhhh. This clears my confusion, thank you.
I’ll give it a whirl and see how it compares/contrasts against the ArcticFox PPC build I’ve been using lately (and quite happily) and against the @eyoungren-optimized TFF (which is far better than stock on my clamshell, but still a laggard compared to AF-PPC).
While in Tiger messing with AF4PPC, i took a break and did this.
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Debian killed off IceWeasel branding back in 2017. Well now it's back in the form of TFF FPR13 with IW branding. However i disabled all unneeded junk (webrtc, safe browsing, maintenance service, webapp runtime, pocket, shumway, loop, and updater to name a few). The result... nostalgic look, faster start, less memory usage, and it's quite fast without all that garbage running in the background.
No code added or removed. Just branding icons and edits to change name and disable services & bundled extensions.
Give it a spin. You may like it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1jd0d3ZZpLJYIm6iCQ26sD3TMwTLKPm/view?usp=sharing
This build is not affiliated with Floodgap Systems or Hyperbola.
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If GNU's IceCat were not still around, you could resurrect that as well. Just joking of course.
Great work there!
I think wicknix is pretty clear in his post, its tenfourfox feature parity release 13 with some useless junk removed for speedier performance.
@wicknix already clarified this question, thanks.
What wasn’t clear (and why I asked) was whether it was related to the root of this thread’s post — literally topical to porting ArcticFox to PPC. So when this IceWeasel build came up, it wasn’t immediately evident to me that wicknix was discussing a completely different browser based not on ArcticFox, but on TFF.
As to you: don’t be Reply Guy after the person to whom the question was asked has already done the answering.
Gave it a spin on my G5 running Tiger. It crashed a couple of times; once while running YouTube with no extensions, and once while installing Ublock Origin legacy from Github. Now that everything is installed (Google Analytics Blocker as well), it seems to work just fine. Nice and speedy, and even YouTube works (albeit at 360p; SMTube is my go-to for the 'Tube these days). Another good one. Thanks!
So far I’ve tested it side-by-side with ArcticFox on my clamshell iBook running 10.4.11 with 576MB RAM, where even subtle memory demands and speed differences are most evident.
I didn’t add the Greasemonkey add-on with the YT script bundled with the ArcticFox PPC build for IceWeasel, but I did uBlock Origin 1.16.4.5 to IceWeasel as a uMatrix 1.0.0 companion.
My findings so far are that ArcticFox’s basic demand on memory is still slightly less than IceWeasel, despite the fact that IceWeasel is using fewer add-ons. I was seeing ~150–155MB memory load for one tab open (to MacRumors forums) in IceWeasel, versus ~125–130MB for ArcticFox. Responsiveness also slightly favoured ArcticFox.
Between TFF (with the 'user.js' optimizations) and IceWeasel, IceWeasel is noticeably quicker.
Conclusion: in all, of the Mozilla-based browsers installed on the clamshell, ArcticFox is presently quickest by just a hair (and has the lowest memory penalty), followed by IceWeasel, and back in third place, TFF with 'user.js' optimizations.
Yeah, for some reason the browser didn't refresh the page, just reloaded from cache, and it looked like no one had replied. I appear to be a douche when I was only trying to be helpful. My bad, or at least Tenfourfox's bad. I also see your confusion now.
Hey wicknix, I gave your browser a shot and I gotta say that it is pretty neat. I'm currently testing it on a G4 Machine (PowerBook5,6 – 1.67 GHZ, 2 GB RAM) and browsing is on par with ArcticFox I'd say. I haven't installed any addons yet and only activated basic adblock in the settings. I set the UA to iOS Safari and web browsing is very enjoyable. However I gotta ask did you turn off the syncing feature on purpose or is it a bug that every login attempt fails because the login form never appears due to a supposedly offline connection.
Thanks again for the great build of TFF! I really enjoy your apps
BTW: Are you still working on ArcticFox ppc?
Thanks again for the great build of TFF! I really enjoy your apps
BTW: Are you still working on ArcticFox ppc?
@netsrot39 Sync may have become disabled as a result of disabling other unwanted services, and i still pick away at AFPPC here and there.
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I’m holding out hope that the above site will come into the possession of legacy themes which were also disappeared from the Mozilla site. There is a version of a dark theme I use on one of my computers which I can no longer find to apply to other computers or Mozilla-based browsers.
@B S Magnet I still can get themes from https://web.archive.org/web/20171002214504/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/
Unfortunately, lacking a search function, the best I can muster is to browse, page by page, under the "most popular" tab, but the archived pages more or less fizzle out around page 15.
The theme I was using is called Android Dark. My efforts to find it on the Wayback Machine only generated saved pages for versions of the theme for post-v57.0 editions of Firefox.
Probably the best browsing experience I've had on PPC so far, thanks a million for this!
Hi, where can I find this please?
I have searched for "uBlock Origin Legacy" using Google and I found pkg file that does not work but that was it.
While in Tiger messing with AF4PPC, i took a break and did this.
View attachment 837275
Debian killed off IceWeasel branding back in 2017. Well now it's back in the form of TFF FPR13 with IW branding. However i disabled all unneeded junk (webrtc, safe browsing, maintenance service, webapp runtime, pocket, shumway, loop, and updater to name a few). The result... nostalgic look, faster start, less memory usage, and it's quite fast without all that garbage running in the background.
No code added or removed. Just branding icons and edits to change name and disable services & bundled extensions.
Give it a spin. You may like it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1jd0d3ZZpLJYIm6iCQ26sD3TMwTLKPm/view?usp=sharing
This build is not affiliated with Floodgap Systems or Hyperbola.
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Definitely liking this and I'm using it to type this reply on my iBook but I've encountered an issue with this forum: whenever I attempt to create a new thread, the browser crashes. What do you think might be causing this glitch?
@TheShortTimer : No issue here (see attached). Conflicting extensions maybe? Try restarting in safe mode ( help -> restart w/add-ons disabled ) and see if that fixes it. If yes, then some add-on is at fault.
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Thanks, I tried that and it still crashes. I had to switch over to my MacBook to complete this reply as I ran into problems using the preview function, even with multiple attempts to refresh the page. Perhaps my G3 is too slow?
Here's the error message in case it provides any clues.
Edit: I'm using TFF with the tweaked prefs.js file and uBlock and it works.
Here's the error message in case it provides any clues.
Edit: I'm using TFF with the tweaked prefs.js file and uBlock and it works.
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Odd. Since it IS TFF, just slimmed down. Try replacing IW's profile with TFF's. See if that works.
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