So this finally happened. Sort of...

[z970]

It seems that there was something about the original file that caused a problem with IW but now I have full use of the browser plus the tweaks and I can post on MR from IW. That's a result in my book.

Don't forget the hardened privacy and security additions.

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Sorry for the bump; but I've got a little problem with IceweaselPPC and uBlock origin, every time I try to open the settings in uBlock, IceWeasel crashes all the time.

Below I've attached the bug report:

 

[wicknix]

I'm not sure if it's related, but iceweasel needs to be in the /Applications directory. If that doesn't fix it, make sure you have ublock-origin-legacy. I can't check which version at the moment as I'm at work.

Cheers

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Moving ICEWEASELPPC to the applications folder didn't solve the issue unfortunately, I'll see where I can get that legacy uBlock

 

[wicknix]

GitHub - gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy: uBlock Origin for Firefox legacy-based browsers.

uBlock Origin for Firefox legacy-based browsers. Contribute to gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Thanks, I installed it, and unfortunately it still crashes whenever I try to access ublock's menu :/

 

[wicknix]

Hmm. I wonder if the wrong ublock corrupted your profile. I know it works as I use ublock legacy personally.

Rename ~/Library/Application Support/IceWeaselPPC (or whatever it's profile dir is, can't look right now) and start with a fresh profile. See if that helps.

Cheers

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Will do, I'll let you know if this worked.
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I just tried and it did the same thing, it crashed directly to the desktop even with a new profile

 

[wicknix]

Strange. I'll have to look when I get home, but i know I'm a version or 2 behind current ublock legacy. I use that and umatrix. Otherwise I can't think of any other reasons why it crashes on you.

Cheers

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Thanks for looking into the issue, I'll stick with TFF for the time being

 

[wicknix]

Last resort. Delete the contents of your iceweasel profile directory and copy In your TFF profile contents.

 

[Alexis Trinquet]

Alright, I'll try this now
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Okay so I just tried this, and it seems to be working so far, I have no idea why or what caused it to crash.
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I spoke too soon, as I tried to go on a website, it crashed again.

 

[barracuda156]

Last resort. Delete the contents of your iceweasel profile directory and copy In your TFF profile contents.

I began looking for Arctic Fox for PPC, and here it is. Could you share a portfile? And what do you think of bringing this into Macports?
(I have a portfile for building TFF, but not yet for AF.)

 

[wicknix]

It's really not that easy. This was just a one-off side project of mine a few years ago. It wasn't part of the official project or source. While i got close, the browser was still partially broken (bookmarks broken, downloads window broken, having to manually add extensions / themes, packaging was broken, and a few other quirks). I ended up manually adding in some of the old TFF38 patches and some other hacks to get what i got posted here. Sadly the HDD in that G5 bit the dust taking everything on it to the grave. I never bothered attempting it again after that as it took months to get that far, and it's code base wasn't any newer than TFF's. So rendering the modern web wasn't going to happen with it, and i saw no need to pursue it again.

Having said all that, Riccardo does have mainline AF building on 10.5 intel now, but it crashes when drawing the UI elements. All i can say is keep an eye on it, and maybe it'll build out of the box on PPC OS X in another year or 2.

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

Since i decided to save money and not go out tonight i spent the day doing this instead....

Previous bugs are fixed. Now bookmarks, history, downloads window etc work. Only small bug i've noticed is that site icons and search engine icons appear blank. Give it a whirl if you feel froggy. I feel i'm close to having a 100% working port. I'll keep picking at it here and there.

Download here: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/arctic-fox-web-browser

Happy New year.

 

[barracuda156]

Since i decided to save money and not go out tonight i spent the day doing this instead....
View attachment 2135294
Only works on Leopard at the moment. Sorry. Previous bugs are fixed. Now bookmarks, history, downloads window etc work. Only small bug i've noticed is that site icons and search engine icons appear blank. Give it a whirl if you feel froggy. I feel i'm close to having a 100% working port. I'll keep picking at it here and there.

Download here: http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/arctic-fox-web-browser

Happy New year.

Awesome!

If building is reproducible, let’s make a portfile and bring into Macports. (I can write the portfile if there is a description of how to compile and patches needed for PPC. And test it on 10.5 and 10.6.)

P. S. By chance, ppc64 won’t build, right?

 

[wicknix]

Haven't tried a 64bit build on Tiger or Leopard. Once i get everything ironed out it may be possible to do a portfile. Right now the source is just locally edited and built. Still need some time yet.

Cheers

 

[wicknix]

Rebuilt and uploaded. Fixed some prefs and should now run on both Tiger and Leopard.

Edit: Does here.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Oof...won't open for me in Tiger, Console says:

Jan 1 08:57:39 PowerBook-12 crashdump[209]: arcticfox crashed
Jan 1 08:57:39 PowerBook-12 crashdump[209]: crash report written to: /Users/Home/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/arcticfox.crash.log
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___floatundidf
Referenced from: /Applications/ArcticFox.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL
Expected in: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib

 

[wicknix]

Doh. Ok thanks for the report. Will look in to it tomorrow. 3am here and i'm beat. Just means my otool script didn't work as expected to relink some libraries. Worked on my test subjects because they all have the TFF macports toolkit installed.

Cheers

 

[barracuda156]

Haven't tried a 64bit build on Tiger or Leopard. Once i get everything ironed out it may be possible to do a portfile. Right now the source is just locally edited and built. Still need some time yet.

Could you try on 10A190, if possible? (I can test that, but only by the end of month, away from PPC machines atm.)

P. S. Many thanks for this awesome work!

 

[wicknix]

@Dronecatcher if you wouldn't mind... relinked version uploaded. Hopefully it's good now.

 

[Sascha Kirschgens]

sorry for the crash report:

Process: arcticfox [329]
Path: /Applications/ArcticFox.app/Contents/MacOS/arcticfox
Identifier: org.mozilla.arcticfox
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [75]

Interval Since Last Report: 1417 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 0 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 1

Date/Time: 2023-01-01 18:16:39.729 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.9 (9L31b)
Report Version:

Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: ___emutls_get_address
Referenced from: /Applications/ArcticFox.app/Contents/MacOS/XUL
Expected in: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib

 

[wicknix]

Crap. Thanks for the report. Does anyone know how to use otool to relink? I even modified tenfourfox's script in hopes that'd work. I really don't know why it isn't working for users without the tff toolkit installed.

Cheers

Edit: it appears the last upload on the garden does indeed now work.

 

[doctor_dog]

What an awesome New Year's present, thank you! Writing this reply from AF on 10.5.8 PB G4 1.67, this is great. No issues at all thus far, thanks again!