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Yeah, not speaking as a Moderator, but I specifically joined MacRumors because there was a Classic forum that was highly active back in the day.
I used support within that forum to help keep my (namesake) Quadra 840av alive. It is still fully functioning today thanks to this community.
(Sort of related.)
A new (and final) release of Kiwi Browser is available for Android. It identifies as Chrome 132, and scores 577 of 594 at html5test.co on my Android 7.1 tablet, better than Webview 132 on my Android 11 tablet (544/594).
Updates to Chromium Legacy often follow Kiwi Browser releases, so maybe an update soon?
A new (and final) release of Kiwi Browser is available for Android. It identifies as Chrome 132, and scores 577 of 594 at html5test.co on my Android 7.1 tablet, better than Webview 132 on my Android 11 tablet (544/594).
Updates to Chromium Legacy often follow Kiwi Browser releases, so maybe an update soon?
There hasn't been an update to Legacy for the best part of a year so don't hold your breath.
so i launched chromium legacy today and i realized syncing had paused an none of my passwords were showing up. i signed in with my google account and everything seemed to be fine. i quit chromium and relaunched it. it wasnt saving my logins. i was signed out of my google account again. there is a notification saying to relaunch chromium to allow access to macos keychain, however it is not doing anything after relaunching.
When I try to install the PrefPane, it gives me an error saying that the kext didn't install because it's not from a signed developer. I didn't see an option to install anyways. Any suggestions?
Right click on it, select "Open", then click to agree in the warning box that appears (can't remember the exact text you will see)
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Hugh
That's not going to help with the kext though! The kext also shouldn't be getting installed on anything newer than OS X 10.9. Since kext signing doesn't exist on 10.8, I'm going to assume izzy0242mr is on 10.9.Right click on it, select "Open", then click to agree in the warning box that appears (can't remember the exact text you will see)
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Hugh
I'm not sure what's going on, but before we try to debug this, can you confirm the kext actually wasn't installed? Please open Terminal and run:
kextstat -lDo you see KQueueScanContinuePatch in there?
Sorry, I don't have the Mac anymore. I was setting it up for someone else and they picked it up before I saw these replies. So I can't test it. I ran the uninstaller in order to avoid the risk of kernel panics/reboots since I saw that was a risk if the kext wasn't installed.
This is still the only decent browser for unsupported macs running Catalina. However, since it's now at least one year out of date, a lot of websites don't render properly anymore, the latest being Gmail.
My parens use this on their old Mac and browsers like Firefox (Dynasty) don't have hardware acceleration. Chromium Legacy does. WebGL content works fine too, which it doesn't on Firefox.
If there's any way to get it to work on Firefox, that would be excellent but I haven't found any. So until then I'm still hoping Bluebox updates this project again..
My parens use this on their old Mac and browsers like Firefox (Dynasty) don't have hardware acceleration. Chromium Legacy does. WebGL content works fine too, which it doesn't on Firefox.
If there's any way to get it to work on Firefox, that would be excellent but I haven't found any. So until then I'm still hoping Bluebox updates this project again..
i went to preferences for one of the chromium apps and it crashed. i restarted chromium and it crashed again after asking for location. i uninstalled the app and the prefpane, and reinstalled it. still no luck. its just crashing infinitely upon startup. anyone else come across this issue?
Even on a non-Metal mac? For whatever reason is has not worked in a few years for me.
Off topic / not off topic. People seem to forget the UXP based browsers support a lot of this stuff. WebGL for example and hardware acceleration work fine, along with flash and a slew of other plugins killed off by Mozilla and Google.
Below are 2 images showing WebGL / Hardware acceleration working just fine with Brass Monkey.
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Below are 2 images showing WebGL / Hardware acceleration working just fine with Brass Monkey.
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They should, but seemingly on Catalina with a GT130 I can't get it to work anymore. I always use this site as a benchmark: https://www.jesse-zhou.com/ loads fast and works smooth on Chromium Legacy. Does not load on Firefox Dynasty. I don't know which flags to set to get it to work, but years ago when regular Firefox still launched on non-Metal, WebGL used to work fine in it.
Well I'm using Mavericks where Metal doesn't exist at all in software. By "non-Metal mac" you mean a Mac that doesn't officially support Catalina and was hacked to make it partially run? I would recommend downgrading to an operating system where things work fully. You're not getting the latest version of software regardless on Catalina.
It's an early 2009 24" iMac and yes, it's using Dosdude1's Catalina patcher. The thing is that it's used by my parents who are not as tech savvy as I am so I have to do some maintenance every once in a while on it.
Downgrading isn't an option and that still leaves the issue of Chromium Legacy being one year out of date. So no Gmail (or any security for that matter) for my mum.
The problem with a lack of graphics acceleration in Firefox is that sites like Google Maps are too slow to use. It will never properly load the map and stutters all over the place. Works fine in Chromium.
(before people start, no they're not upgrading their computer any time soon)
I don't understand this - I'm using the same out of date Chromium Legacy and there is no problem getting my Gmail via the https://mail.google.com/mail/ website.
