TenFourFox Development

9To5Mac is reporting that Apple has confirmed the Mac Pro is no longer for sale, and indeed, although it was up yesterday, today it's gone.

Ars Technica mentioned that in macOS Tahoe the venerable old hard disk icons will be replaced with new, more generic, relatively less interesting equivalents.

It's WWDC again, and Apple has turned the volume knob to add 11, jumping from 15 to 26 with macOS Tahoe.

The San Francisco Chronicle had an article today on the retirement of KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern.

I was slack on doing the Firefox 128ESR platform rebase for TenFourFox, but I finally got around tuit, mostly because I've been doing a little more work on the Quad G5 and put some additional patches in to scratch my own itches.

A recent patch removed support for the PowerPC Common Hardware Reference Platform from the Linux kernel.

Do you like your computers to be big, fire-prone and inflexible?

I think it's been previously commented upon, but we were watching Donnie Darko over the weekend (controversial opinion: we prefer the director's cut, we think it's an improvement) and noticed that Donnie's reality is powered by a familiar processor and op…

Most of you still using a Power Mac as a daily or occasional driver are probably either running Linux, Tiger or Leopard, and a minority on OS 9.

Understandably they're saying little about it publicly, but word is getting around that Google's fast, super-compatible Basic HTML mode for Gmail will be removed in a few short months.

A fix is in the TenFourFox tree for MFSA 2023-40, a/k/a CVE-2023-4863, which is a heap overflow in the WebP image decoder.

The next patch set has landed, bringing the TenFourFox security base up to 115ESR.

Just a quick note: Floodgap is down due to upstream issues beyond their control.

Today Apple asked, would you like cheese with your wine?

As promised, there are new changesets to pick up in the TenFourFox tree.

Wired ran an article today (via Ars Technica) about apparent macOS-compatible builds of LockBit, a prominent encrypting ransomware suite, such as this one for Apple silicon.

102 is now the next Firefox Extended Support Release, so it's time for spring cleaning — if you're a resident of the Southern Hemisphere — in the TenFourFox repository.

Floodgap appears to be down because Network Solutions' name servers are timing out and name queries are not reliably resolving (everything's up on this end).

Those of us in southern California are shaking our heads.

I've had my hands full with the POWER9 64-bit JIT (a descendant of TenFourFox's 32-bit JIT), but I had a better idea about the lazy image loader workaround in February's drop and got the rest of the maintenance patches down at the same time.

Security patches and a couple tweaks have been landed on the TenFourFox Github, so warm up your computers and prepare to rebuild.

Happy New Year (I'd like to say nothing can be worse than 2021 was, but I don't want to tempt 2022).

Apparently the strawberry iMac G3 is to blame for Wikipedia, and in keeping with the stupid prices people are paying for collectable Power Macs (to the chagrin of those of us actually using them), you can bid on it.

If so, heads up, because builds for your configuration may be ending soon (along with Void PPC on big-endian platforms generally).

Due to family and work issues my time has been curtailed for all kinds of things, but at this point, at least, there's something for you to work with: as promised, the TenFourFox source code has been updated to use 91ESR for the certificate and security b…