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tenfourfox
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classilla / tenfourfox

tenfourfox

Mozilla for Power Macintosh.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
327GitHub stars
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What it is

Mozilla for Power Macintosh.

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-01-20 08:01:51 UTC to 2023-11-14 11:45:28 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> Sorry that your unupgradable software comes from an era where security was not important. TenFourFox[1] continues to be maintained through community effort, and receives regular security fixes/backports. The problem is not software (although the project desperately lacks manpower), but the 20yro single-core CPU that literally sweats to push the crypto (let alone the CSS&JS). Don't get me wrong. The relentless push for TLS is good, and I'm not arguing to take a step back - that would be insane. The change I'm asking for is, rather than doing [2] in your nginx.conf, do [3]. It doesn't change anything at all for modern browsers (when you hit that path, you're already at the mercy of an intercepting proxy), but makes your site more accessible for my ancient junk ;) [1]: https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox [2]: return 301 https://$ho
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st$request_uri; [3]: if ($http_upgrade_insecure_requests = "1") { return 301 https://$host$request_uri; }
In The laptop that won't die
Yes, websites with heavy JavaScript really slow it down. The newest browser available for it is based on a very old version of Firefox. https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/ Youtube is extremely slow, and it can only play back 360p or lower video smoothly. There is no hardware h.264 acceleration. “New” Reddit is also very slow. But old Reddit loads fine. Hacker news is very fast, loads as quickly as a modern computer.
In Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’
You can not only assume it, but I can also say with certainty it exists. Emscripten hastened this by letting site owners compile little-endian code into little-endian asm.js. For example, the WhatsApp Web QR code generator won't run on a BE platform; it's an Emscriptenized blob of code backing it that assumes the typed array it stores into has LE orientation. TenFourFox and Leopard Webkit both emulate little-endian typed arrays on BE Power Macs and transparently byteswap integers. This mostly works for sites that care and has almost no overhead in JITted code for 16 and 32-bit int, but Facebook managed to break some of our assumptions with floats (example: https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/issues/453 -- we don't byteswap floats because it's expensive and probably would break things expecting native endian on the DOM side). Fortunate
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ly, TenFourFox doesn't support WebGL, so we don't need to worry about that. IMHO, this is a broken promise about how the Web was supposed to be platform-independent. I get the feeling the general attitude on this thread is that such platforms are unimportant, but that doesn't mean it's not a broken promise.
In Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

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