chromium-legacy

Ah, but note I said "mainstream browser engine", not "mainstream browser!" The mainstream browsers themselves dropped Mavericks some time ago, but other developers have been maintaining backports. Firefox Dynasty is actually a relatively recent development. For a while I was using Chromium Legacy[1], which, yes, did stop getting updated a little over a year ago. But then just in time, i3roly came along with Firefox Dynasty[2]! It's true that if i3roly drops Firefox Dynasty, and the Chromium Legacy developer doesn't return (there has been some movement on the repo), that will be the end of this project. But that could be many years from now! 1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy 2: https://github.com/i3roly/firefox-dynasty

This is really strange! Chromium Legacy is an up-to-date fork of Chromium which supports back to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (from 2011). On Friday, the developer's Github account and all of his repositories suddenly disappeared. The links now return 404 errors. https://github.com/blueboxd/ https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy Today, the same thing happened to Supermium, an equivalent project for Windows which supports back to XP. To my knowledge, the developers of Chromium Legacy and Supermium are wholly unaffiliated. https://github.com/win32ss/ https://github.com/win32ss/supermium Does anyone happen to know what the heck is going on? It's a little scary and makes me not want to trust GitHub. I don't see anything relevant in GitHub's repository of DMCA notices[1], and I'm having trouble coming up with legal grounds on which such a takedown

If the browser is properly sandboxed, and you're only accessing the internet through the browser, you should reasonably safe, no? Obviously it's better to have defense in depth, but I don't see the immediate danger. What is the attack vector you are concerned about? --- I daily drive a 2013-era version of OS X, using a similar modified version of Chromium[1] to browse the web. I'm pretty sure I've plugged the holes I need to plug in order to be reasonably safe, but if you have a specific concern I'd like to hear about it! 1: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

See also: a roughly equivalent project for legacy OS X (Lion and newer): https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

There are up-to-date builds of Chromium for 10.9.5. (Actually, they work as far back as 10.7, Lion) https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy I daily-drive this browser on a 10.9 Mavericks Hackintosh. It's great.

A lack of web browsers for older versions of macOS shouldn't be a problem when there's https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

> The newest browser you can run on this is Firefox 78.15.0esr I'll guess you'll be happy to see this: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy :)

https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy exists for macOS, so it would only be fair if there was something similar for old versions of Windows. :)

> a 2013 macbook with a keyboard that still works, but it can't get the latest OS updates anymore, much like OP's XP machine. If a lack of web browsers is the problem: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

> Browser support (including Safari support) is the main reason why expensive desktop Macs eventually become paperweights. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

Thanks, note that it's all very much built on the shoulders of giants! For example, the "Chromium Legacy Downloader" just adds automatic updates (and some tweaks) to to an existing project. Chromium Legacy itself—a branch of Chromium kept in sync with upstream which retains support for legacy OS X—is maintained by a Japanese developer I don't know much about. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy. Other downloads, like the Dolphin emulator, are basically just source recompiles, which use MacPorts tooling to support legacy OS X. MacPorts has incredible legacy support.

> and current web browser support. You don't have to give this up on Mavericks! :D https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy --- Mavericks also has something better than dark mode—a visual design that uses the full tonal range of lights and darks together to have higher contrast. A lot of the rest is only useful if you're in Apple's ecosystem, which I'm mostly not.

Huh. I'm using a little-known Chromium fork[0] and I haven't had any trouble logging into Google services. 0: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

> Why El Capitan? Because the most current Chrome requires El Capitan (Mavericks does not work). https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy Runs beautifully on Mavericks. Install it via my preference pane and you'll even get automatic updates: https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy/discussions/25