The Future of IceweaselPPC Browser

[Appleuser201]

I use IceweaselPPC and arctic fox on my 1.33 iBook G4 for daily Internet browsing. Not many use their PPC macs daily for this purpose for understandable reasons.
But What shocked me was the performance and usability of IceweaselPPC on my recently purchased 400mhz iMac with just 256mb of ram. Tenfourfox unoptimized is unusable utter garbage and is slow on the iBook G4.
With IceweaselPPC and arctic fox I can get around the Internet on my new IMac decently. My 600mhz iMac feels worlds faster but that's probably because of the 1gb of ram. It's my favourite PPC browser.

What's the future of the Iceweasel browser, and the Iceweasel brand name? It's a really good browser and even though it's technically tenfourfox with a different name and logo and optimizations, I think it would be great if we could all contribute to make this browser something more than just tff with tweaks.

Someone told me I'll never do anything modern at 400mhz and 256mb of ram but look what IceweaselPPC lets me do that tenfourfox never did.

 

[z970]

Tenfourfox unoptimized is unusable utter garbage and is slow on the iBook G4.

Not with PowerUOC.

What's the future of the Iceweasel browser, and the Iceweasel brand name?

Iceweasel used to be Debian's rebranding of Firefox (so they could avoid legal problems). It doesn't belong to us. If you ask me, the ultimate OOB, PPC-optimized EOL TFF should be named something besides "IceWeasel-PPC". Certainly something a little more accurate, and to the point.

TenFourFoxUltra... TenFastFox... VelocityFx...

Here's one... "TenFourFox: Autobahn Edition".

Don't forget, the Aqua / Aurora branding is up for the taking.

 

[Appleuser201]

Not with PowerUOC.



Iceweasel used to be Debian's rebranding of Firefox (so they could avoid legal problems). It doesn't belong to us. If you ask me, the ultimate OOB, PPC-optimized EOL TFF should be named something besides "IceWeasel-PPC". Certainly something a little more accurate, and to the point.

TenFourFoxUltra... TenFastFox... VelocityFx...

Here's one... "TenFourFox: Autobahn Edition".

Don't forget, the Aqua / Aurora branding is up for the taking.

AquaFox sounds like a good name, and could be the IceWeasel brand name replacement, it's just such a good browser as you saw what my imac is able to do.

 

[z970]

AquaFox sounds like a good name

Especially as "Aqua" is synonymous with "TenFour", or "10.4".

Probably best that, as there did actually used to be an AuroraFox...

 

[Appleuser201]

Especially as "Aqua" is synonymous with "TenFour", or "10.4".

Probably best that, as there did actually used to be an AuroraFox...

We should ask whoever made IceweaselPPC to modify it to say aquafox with a custom logo.

 

[TheShortTimer]

Someone told me I'll never do anything modern at 400mhz and 256mb of ram but look what IceweaselPPC lets me do that tenfourfox never did.

TFF works so much better with the tweaks from @eyoungren or @z970mp and @looking4awayout.

There's always a naysayer who claims that older hardware cannot serve a viable purpose but this forum has shown otherwise.

 

[sparty411]

We should ask whoever made IceweaselPPC to modify it to say aquafox with a custom logo.

I actually really like the IceWeasel branding 😬

 

[Project Alice]

I've been using a 1.5Ghz 15" PowerBook G4 as my main portable for a little over a year; using stock, unmodified TFF. Not "unusable garbage". Perfectly usable. However, I am enjoying PowerUOC on it. I also use articfox, IceWeasel, and Leopard Webkit from time to time.

Stock TFF on the PB is able to handle 360p youtube/embedded videos that are on web pages. Local playback or webkit is still the easiest option on a G4 like that one IMO. I haven't tested video playback with PowerUOC but I don't expect it to be any better than stock TFF.

 

[reukiodo]

PowerFox?

 

[Project Alice]

PowerFox?

I like this.

 

[z970]

"PowerUOC - Only for PowerFox on PowerPC"

A match made in heaven.

 

[Appleuser201]

"PowerUOC - Only for PowerFox on PowerPC"

A match made in heaven.

Someone should build powerfox the same way they did iceweaselppc. With a new logo.

 

[dyf1998]

How can I install IceweaselPPC? I googled it but didn't found many useful things

 

[Hughmac]

How can I install IceweaselPPC? I googled it but didn't found many useful things

Try here - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/so-this-finally-happened-sort-of.2172031/post-27366588

Cheers

Hugh

 

[dyf1998]

Try here - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/so-this-finally-happened-sort-of.2172031/post-27366588

Cheers

Hugh

Thanks a lot! It work