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Firefox 6 on Tiger PowerPC :)

68kMLA PowerPC 11 posts Jul 15, 2011 to Aug 13, 2011

#1 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 - 06:01 68kMLA

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2011/07/60b1-available.html

Please note: plugins ship disabled in 6.0. Read the blog entry thoroughly. You can opt back in, but they are unsupported.

#2 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 - 11:20 68kMLA

What? Firefox 6 is already out? They just released ver. 5.x less than a month ago. Is it just me or am I missing something?

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

#3 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 - 12:51 68kMLA

Is it just me or am I missing something?

~Thank you Google Chrome

#4 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 - 13:27 68kMLA

Is it just me or am I missing something?

Click to expand...

~Thank you Google Chrome

Spank you Google Chrome.

Darn version number creep... I'm so looking forward to Firefox 73 by 2013.

#5 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 - 15:51 68kMLA

Years ago Slackware Linux jumped straight from version 4.0 to 7.0 as a sarcastic response to RedHat's version number creep. Of course, that didn't stop Redhat from burning through 7 to 9 in nothing flat...

#6 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 - 05:42 68kMLA

I am generally a big Mozilla cheerleader, but I think they blew it big time with rapid release. However, they blew it more by being nasty to people who made reasonable complaints afterwards. There's quite a bit of MoCo internal squabbling over it and some has bubbled up publicly.

#7 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 - 14:06 68kMLA

Installed it on my iMac G3 and it works fine

#8 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 - 02:55 68kMLA

More testing fun. This is a TenFourFox-specific add-on enabling playback in QuickTime, including H.264 video. It's very rough, but give it a try. Read the directions first!

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2011/07/2-6-4-h-what-browser-do-we-preciate.html

#9 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 - 19:03 68kMLA

I'll have to try this out on the G5s at the office. Thank you for this effort. It has been one of the things preventing me from replacing those G5s with Dell 280s.

Spank you Google Chrome. Darn version number creep...

Google Chrome never makes a big deal about advertising their version number. Chrome is at 13 now, and if you look, there's a lot of differences between, say, chrome 3 (if you can find and isolate that executable) and Chrome 12 or 13. Google's policy of "iterate quickly and frequently" is working in their favor pretty significantly here, if I do say so myself, and it's better to think of Chrome as a piece of software that doesn't have a version number, but just keeps improving. It's kind of like a web site in that way.

Firefox, on the other hand, hasn't really done much that I can see between 4.0 and 6.0. 6.0 should probably be called something like 4.2 or even 4.0.something. This is doubly true if the Mozilla folks are having public disagreements about the version numbering.

#10 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 - 04:41 68kMLA

Didn't Google pull their search bar out of Firefox recently? If they did, it'll be hard for me to get the new version. I've tried other search engines and none of them "felt" like I was getting the searches I wanted. Not even Dogpile...

#11 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 - 23:38 68kMLA

Final is being uploaded to Google Code ( http://tenfourfox.googlecode.com/ ) as we speak (as well as a blog post to the development blog, http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/ ).

Because Time Worthless still has its corporate thumb up its rear end, I haven't been able to do much testing of it other than what I could surreptitiously do in the back corner of the local Starbucks on my iBook G4. I'd appreciate people banging on it. If there is a serious problem, I did do a security review of Fx5 so we can run off an interim TenFourFox 5.0.2 if there are serious showstoppers in 6. However, the iBook has been doing fine on 6b1, so I expect no issues with this one.