After announcement of extended support release (ESR) of Firefox, Cameron Kaiser stated that starting with version 10 of TenFourFox, stable releases of TenFourFox will be based on Firefox ESR, to reduce maintenance burden. Version 6.0 was released as 6.0r correcting two high-priority issues on Aug and 6.0.1 correcting the DigiNotar SSL certificate leak on Aug7.0 was released in final form on September 27, 2011. Versions 6.0, 6.0.1 and 7.0 closely mirrored the corresponding Firefox releases, with 6.0 improving AltiVec integration and ending official plugin support as well as introducing an add-on for QuickTime playback outside of the browser. Version 5.0 switched to the current Mozilla rapid release framework, based on Firefox 5 and including additional AltiVec scaling and color features, and was released on June 16, 2011. Version 4.0.3 was a final security fix for 4.x and was released on June 20, 2011. Version 4.0.2 also incorporated additional bug and security fixes and was released on May 28, 2011. Version 4.0.1 incorporated bug fixes and AltiVec-accelerated WebM video and pixel compositing and was released on April 22, 2011. The finalized first release version, 4.0s, incorporated a security update and a fix for JavaScript performance, and was released on March 24, 2011. JavaScript acceleration using its completed PowerPC version of TraceMonkey was released with beta 9 on January 12, 2011, and enabled fully for beta 11 on February 2, 2011. A full complement of builds for the G3, the 74 G4 families and the G5 were released with beta 8 on December 15, 2010. Aligning with previous precedent that modified builds of Firefox source could not use Firefox trademarks without permission, the project was forked and named TenFourFox. This was released to users in separate builds for AltiVec Macs and G3 Macs on November 8, 2010. In parallel, developer Cameron Kaiser created a test build of Firefox 4 that could run on his Power Mac G5 at the same time as support was being withdrawn from beta 7. Mozilla stopped making PowerPC-compatible universal builds of Firefox 4 with beta 7. In 2010, Mozilla's Mike Beltzner announced that the forthcoming Firefox 4 would not be released for Power Macintosh computers, compatibility with Mac OS X Tiger having already been removed, making Firefox 3.6 the last supported release of Firefox on the older architecture and platform. The project shares administration with Classilla, a fork of Mozilla Application Suite for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 8.6. The primary maintainer is Cameron Kaiser. Like Firefox, it includes compatibility with a wide range of addons, Acid2 and Acid3 compliance, and HTML 5 and CSS 3 features however, it also includes JavaScript just-in-time compilation, custom builds for specific PowerPC processor families, and AltiVec acceleration of key media codecs. TenFourFox is a Mozilla-based browser closely related to Mozilla Firefox, written for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS X to retain compatibility with the older architecture and older versions of the operating system, and to add PowerPC-specific optimizations for improved performance. Mozilla Public License, GNU General Public License, Floodgap Free Software License, others TenFourFox 12 running under Mac OS X Tiger.ฤก9.0.2 unstable / March 9, 2013 20 days ago ( )
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