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(TenFourFox dev here) Depends on what you want to call support. 3.6 (the last PowerPC and 10.4 compatible version) was indeed supported until the first Extende
by classichasclass 6y ago
(TenFourFox dev here)
Depends on what you want to call support. 3.6 (the last PowerPC and 10.4 compatible version) was indeed supported until the first Extended Support Release with Firefox 10, since 3.6 was effectively the first ESR in all but name. But 3.6 aged awfully fast, and even when 3.6 was current certain features never made it to PowerPC (like the JIT), so I think it's also fair to say the support it got was never the same as x86 Macs did when they emerged.
- acdha 6y agoIt definitely wasn’t great - and I know a few people who benefited from your work so thanks! I think this time would be different because things like compilers wouldn’t be asked to add support for an otherwise unused architecture. Getting anyone to support PPC was hard given the limited market share and got much harder once it was deprecated. There’s definitely some Mac-specific code but a lot of the most expensive code is going to be shared with Windows and Linux support which isn’t going anywhere.
- sgt 6y agoI'd also like to offer my appreciation to you and the TenFourFox. That is the only browser that still works on my G4 and frankly I think few expected that such a project would be made and actively maintained.